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You are probably tired o people asking, What do you want to be when you grow
up? Some students know exactly what they want to do, but most havent got a
clue. The idea o choosing a career is intimidating, and it eels like its ar in the
uture. Theres little time in the commotion o classes, activities, sports, work, and un to
think about what career you want to pursue ater graduation rom high school or college.
It pays, though, to take the time to think about your uture career. The truth is that
youll save a lot o time and money i you have a direction in lie, as opposed to just
nishing high school and worrying about it later. Its really a matter o dollars and
sense. I you choose a career direction now, you can select classes and activities that will
make you highly marketableand highly paidwhen you look or work. And it only
makes sense to have an idea o what you want to do rather than just wandering aimlessly
through school.
Nobody wants that. Not your parents. Not your teachers. Not your riends. They want
you tobesomebody. They want you to use your talents, ollow your interests, and pursue
your ambitions to become great at what you love to
do in lie. Thats what you should want, too.
So the time is right to take charge o your lie and
think about the uture. You need a plan o action
or how to get rom where you are today to where
you want to be in a ew years: starting out on a
personally and proessionally rewarding career.
Thats what AchieveTexas in Actionis all about. The
magazine you are holding is one o 16 guides to dierent
career clusters. It is designed to help you make smarter
decisions about your education and career options.
Youve heard the phrase, Inormation is power. Well, this magazine is power. It puts
you squarely in charge o your uture, rom creating your Texas Achievement Plan (TAP)
(see page 5) to choosing college or some other orm o education or training ater high
school. Work with your parents, teachers, and counselors to make decisions, but remind
everyone that it isyouruture at stake and thatyouare taking charge o it.
Get inormation. Get a plan. Get a clue about your career direction. Its all right i that
direction changes; choosing a direction now is better than having no direction at all. Just
promise yoursel that youll make smart choices about where to ocus your time, energy,
and passion.
Were proud that you are taking steps to plan your career direction, and we pledge that
your school, teachers, and counselors will do all they can to help you make wise choices
on your plans or success. We wish you the best o luck on your journey.
Dear Texas Student,
Youve HeardTHaT InormaTIon Is
power. well, THIs
magazIne Is power.
IT puTs You In cHargeo Your uTure.
WELCOME TO AChiEvETExAs in ACTiOn
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When I was in high school, says Sheryl
Kovach, human resources director oenvironmental services at Phillips Services
Corporation, in Houston, the only job that Ieven knew about was receptionist work. I didntaspire to be a manager or entrepreneur because Ireally didnt know about those disciplines. I was
just looking orward to graduating. That was it. Ireally didnt know what it was I wanted to do.
Sound amiliar? You, too, may not have a clue
about what to do with your lie.Dont worry, though. Help is right here in your
hands. This issue oAchieveTexas in Actionisyour guide to education and career choices that
can shape your uture. Its one o 16 career clusterguides published by AchieveTexas, Texass collegeand career initiative (www.AchieveTexas.org).This edition is all about Business Management
& Administration.Lets start with some basic steps you should take
to get organized, plan or the uture, and start onthe road to success.
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First, you need to gure out somethings about yoursel. This step can
be as simple as writing down a listo your interests (like video gamesor rock climbing), your hopes anddreams (like helping others), yourtalents (like writing or math ability),and your weaknesses (i youre
squeamish at the sight o blood, orexample, you might not want to bea doctor).
Follow up on this inormal exercise by taking
some ormal assessments to determine yourinterests and abilities. Common assessments
include the Kuder (www.kuder.com), Bridges(www.bridges.com), Career Cruising (www.careercruising.com), COIN (www.coinedu.com),and Myers-Briggs (www.myersbriggs.org) tests.Terry Brock, director o the Texas CounselorsNetwork, a group that helps counselors statewideadvise their students on career planning, says,
These tools give most o our students some careerexploration awareness by the time they entereighth or ninth grade.
Ask your principal or counselor
about the careerassessmentsavailable at
your school.
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Once youve learned about yoursel, learn moreabout your career options. There are thousands
o occupations out there o which you may neverhave heard, and others that do not yet existbecause the technologies have not been developed.Fortunately, there are plenty o resources (see insideback cover) or you, and they are as close as thenearest computer.
One o the most helpul is the Occupation andSkill Computer-Assisted Researcher (or OSCAR, or
short) rom the Texas Workorce Commission.It is a vast database o inormation about hundredso proessions. You can nd OSCAR at www.ioscar.
org/tx. Another good place to start is O*NET(http://online.onetcenter.org).
Gather inormation about what youcan earn in the careers in which you are
interested. Find out whether the careersyou are considering have a promising
utureare they adding or losingjobs? Check out the education youllneed to enter those careers.
The chart on pages 1011presents data on 25 possible
proessions. Remember, though,
that these are just a sampling o
careers available in the cluster. Go toOSCAR, O*NET, or another resource
to investigate other careers.
Ceate Yo TAP
Once you have a better idea o your interests
and abilities, you are ready to plan or highschool and beyond. The Texas Achievement
Plan, or TAP, is your plan or preparing or thecareer o your choice.
The rst step is or students to choose a careercluster, and not a particular occupational goal. In
the eighth grade a student might choose BusinessManagement & Administration and then laterbecome interested in a narrower eld such as humanresources or business management.
The program o study you chooseyour plandoes not stop with graduation rom high school,Brock emphasizes. A student could then pursue atwo-year degree as human resource manager or a
our-year degree as a business administrator.You should set up a TAP that takes you through
career preparation after high school, revising yourblueprint as needed as you go along. If your careerplans include college study, ask your counselorabout tests required for admission to college,such as the PSAT, SAT, or ACT.
seek Ot specal Poam
Many Texas schools oer innovative programsto prepare students or specic career areas.These include career and technical education(CTE) programs, academies, and magnet schools.
Once youve decided on a career direction, askyour counselor about special programs in your
area that may provide related experiences in yourchosen career.
Samuel Odamah, enrolled in the architectureprogram at the University o Texas at Arlington,having ound his career calling at Dallass SkylineCareer Development Center, a high school withcareer programs in a number o dierent elds.
Skyline is one o the ew schools in the country
that oers programs in architecture, Odamah says.In some careers, Skyline students could evenget proessional certications or licenses right in
high school. It was a great place because youcould nd out whether you really wanted to entera career.
Odamah says that the career cluster system atSkyline taught him the value o planning or his
career and his lie. We learned about planningahead, he says. Those who plan things ahead otime dont have to catch up. Its just a matter o whata person wants out o lie. Planning gives you abetter platorm or success.
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Planning your Career
In Texas, TAPs (Texas Achievement Plans) will guide students high school andcollege experiences (see next page). As part of this process, students focus theirstudies within a chosen career cluster and program of study.
Career Clusters& Programs of Study ?WHAT ARE
C L U S T E R
Business Management& Administration
Office Manager
Research Analyst
Business Executive
Human Resources Manager
Financial Officer
Marketing Manager
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Human Resources Manager
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P R O G R A M S O F S T U D Y E X A M P L E O C C U P A T I O N S
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Planning your Career
Acareer cluster is a group o occupations and broad industriesthat share certain eatures. The Business Management& Administration cluster, or example, includes ofce
managers and business executives. Texas has adopted 16 careerclusters (see back cover), the same ones designated and developedby the U.S. Department o Education. As the graphic below
shows, within each cluster are programs o study, which are morespecifc groupings o similar occupations. Think o a programo study as being like a college major. In Business Management& Administration, you might choose to ocus on HumanResources in high school and college.
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Each program o study includes a range o related occupations;
human resources manager is an example o an occupation thatalls within Human Resources. Choosing a career cluster andprogram o study will help you acquire the knowledge andskills youll need to enter your chosen career. It will allow you to
ollow a seamless course o study rom high school into collegeor other postsecondary education or training. The electives youchoose can complement your core academic classes to prepare
you or the challenges o the real world o work.
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Dont get locked into a cluster and program o study you dontlike. You should reexamine your TAP at least once a year andchange pathways or clusters i your interests have changed.Choosing a cluster and program o study, even i they changelater, means that youll have a direction in lie. The idea is to beaware o whats going on in your lie and take control o youruture. When you know where your education is going and why,
your classes will become more meaningul. Youll make contact
with students, teachers, and employers who share your interestin a particular career area. Youll have experiences that are unand exciting. Youll be on your way to success in school, in acareer, and in lie.
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ATAP is a Texas Achievement Plan, and its a smartidea to create one to guide your studies throughhigh school and into college or other postsecondary
education or training. Your TAP represents your chanceto take control o your education and career choices.
Working with your parents/guardians and guidancecounselor, you can pick the cluster on which youwant to ocus your studies as well as your career and
postsecondary education goals. Dont worry. You arentlocked into your choices. You should revisit your TAPat least once a year to update it. You can change clusters,programs o study, and career and postsecondary goals as
your interests and ambitions change. Having a planeven
i it changesis smarter than having no idea o what youwant to do and why you are attending school. Heres howto ll out your TAP.
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You can write your own ticket to success in BusinessManagement & Administration. This cluster represents one othe astest-growing and highest-paying groups o jobs in the
United States.There is a desperate need or trained business proessionals,
says Jamie Belinne, assistant dean o the Rockwell Career ServicesCenter in the University o Houstons Bauer College o Business. You
can take your pick: jobs with many openings include accountants,administrative assistants, bookkeepers, desktop publishers, meetingplanners, ofce managers, personnel recruiters, public relationsspecialists, and store managers.
The Bttm LneWhile the jobs vary widely, you can count on one thing. The bottom
line in business is the bottom line, says Belinne. You cant be tooaraid o numbers.
But dont think business is just boring number crunching. Forinstance, i you like solving mysteries and are good with numbers,the FBI might hire you as an accountant. Our country loses a loto money to white-collar crime each year, explains Belinne. I youreally enjoy investigating and dont mind going through mounds o
inormation to get to the bottom o a mystery you
would probably enjoy accounting.A business career could take youto exotic places as well. Ron
Zimmerman, chie executiveofcer o the Houston
pharmaceutical company PLxPharma, has lived in England,
Russia, and Kazakhstan.He helped bring energyand mining companies tothe latter, a ormer Sovietrepublic. The companydeveloped oil felds topump jobs and revenue
into the economy.
Excellent Pay and Ppect
Whether youre working in the oil felds, in adepartment store, or in criminal investigation,pay and prospects in Business Management &Administration are excellent. Managers in bigretail stores can make six-fgure salaries withinfve to 10 years ater college graduation, Belinnesays. The hours are long and the work is hard,but you can be extremely successul.
Accounting majors straight out o collegecan earn $40,000 to $50,000 and managementinormation system majors can earn $60,000 to
$70,000. Inormation system experts are almost likeinterpreters who can move back and orth betweenbusiness and technology, Belinne explains.
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This is a projection of 10 fast-growing careers in Business Management & Administration in Texasfrom the year 2006 to 2016 and the number of new jobs created in each occupation. Note that while thepercentage of growth in jobs may be high, the actual number of jobs created may be low. Source: U.S.Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
10 Fast-Growing CareersOccupation
% Growth(20062016)
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Network Systems and Data Communications Analyst 53.36% 208
Advertising Sales Agent 45.10% 157
Financial Examiner 41.16% 16
Computer Sotware Engineer 32.46% 372
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Employment, Recruitment, and Placement Specialist 27.92% 112
Medical Secretary 26.64% 84
Cost Estimator 25.34% 104
Cargo and Freight Agent 23.94% 40
Human Resources, Training, and Labor Relations Specialist 23.94% 386
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I you answered yes to fve or more o the above questions, Business Management & Administration maybe the right cluster or you. To get a more specifc and scientifc measurement o your attitudes and abilities,ask your guidance counselor or teacher about taking a career assessment test or interest inventory.
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Across the board, the outlook is bright. The number o jobsnationwide in Business Management & Administration is expectedto grow 42 percent during this decade.
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And you can chart your own course. Opportunities are available ortalented managers in every industry in every part o the world.
Zimmermanwho began his work lie sacking groceriesputhimsel through the University o North Texas by working summersas an oil eld roustabout. I was ortunate the oil eld was a high-paying job, he says. That was my primary nancial support.
Ater exploring banking ater college, he spent most o hiscareer in the energy business. I was mainly working with energycompanies, Zimmerman says, advising on selling and partneringwith companies overseasmainly in oil and gas exploration andproduction.
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Manybut not allBusiness Management & Administrationjobs require a college degree. For top positions in human resources,
companies vary widely in what they require. Monty Stanley, humanresources director at the San Angelo Standard-Times, says, Any
kind o management or business degree should get you in the door.To work as a human resources assistant or clerk, he adds, you
need to have a high school diploma and a good sense o organization.Practical courses in using desktop computer systems will make
you much more marketable. I you can prove yoursel in some
kind o an oce-related internship job, this will also improve yourcareer opportunities.
Whichever route you choose, take rigorous math or English.These skills can help you succeed in a career. Belinne, who helpscollege students obtain job interviews and evaluate oers, says,I you can write and speak well and are good at math, you can be
phenomenally successul.
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This is a chart o hourly wages or 10 o the top-paying careers in the Business Management &Administration cluster in Texas. Note how entry-level wages are oten much lower than pay or theaverage worker and experienced workers in each proession. Source: U.S. Bureau o Labor and Statistics. Anotation o NA signifes inormation not available.
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On ThE JOB
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Like many kids, Terry Welch ran a Kool-
Aid stand as a child. His was moresuccessul than most, he remembers,
because we had dierent favors thanthe Kool-Aid stand down the road. Hissecret? He would juice up his product withadditives such as raspberries or Coca-Cola.
Welch discovered early on thatworking in business means coming up
with creative ideas that yield bottom-linebenets. Eventually, Welch went to work asdirector o environmental operations orthe Dow Chemical Company in Houston,designing ways to help Dow ecientlydeal with waste generated by thecompanys operations.
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Although the Business Management& Administration cluster coversa wide variety o activitiesmanagement, accounting, human
resources, marketing, business analysis,administrative supportproessionals
in all these areas generally spend theirdays collaborating to plan,
organize, and delivera product or service.
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Im not one who likes doing the samething over and over, says Linda Hulett,
who served as an administrative assistantat the University o Houstons Collegeo Technology while working on herbachelors degree online with DeVryUniversity. Im the type o personalitythat likes multitasking. An administrative
assistants job is to support managers bydoing such varied tasks as answering phon
calls, scheduling meetings, and ling.I knew I wanted to be a secretary in
the eighth grade, Hulett says, but her
horizons broadened as she acquired moremarketable skills.
There are a lot o project managementtasks that I perorm in my job right now,she explains. When I came here, orexample, I was asked to create a betterdesign or oce operations. I detailedwhat the various responsibilities were anddesigned an organizational chart including
the new positions that were created.Hulett now works as an assistant orDynegy in Houston.
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Almost every job in business requiresworking as a member o a team.
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Standard-Times. The one thing that allbusinesses have in common is their people,their human resources.
In business, eective communicationis critical, whether its ace-to-ace in
meetings or via phone, ax, email, or instantmessaging. Businesspeople need to write,read, and speak well. Mastering business
technology, such as Microsot Ofce,is a must. And math skills are used orbudgeting, pricing, marketing, and manyother areas o a companys operations.
Networking
Students interested in business shouldlearn how to network, be a part o student
organizations, and not hide behind computerskills, says Ann Hughes, director o the Schoolo Management at Texas Womans Universityin Denton. It is extremely important to
build your interpersonal skills. Hughes alsorecommends that students work while incollegeespecially in internships. Collegegraduates with no practical work experienceare at a disadvantage in the job market.
Learning to Manage
The most common problem Stanley runs intois when new supervisors dont know how tomanage their sta well. Supervising is a jobthat doesnt come naturally to most people,he says, so I need to be able to identiy whentraining is needed and see that it gets done.
Stanleys job calls on him to help peoplewith problems, and he likes doing it. He has abachelors and masters degree in psychology,
as well as a masters degree in humanresources management.
Lifelong Learning
In business today, successul people keepconstantly learning.
Welch himsel has taken advantage oDows commitment to developing its people.
He had a strong background in science andmathematics when he started with Dow,and the company trained him in leadershipand management. He is now completing amasters degree in business administration.
Welch sees working in BusinessManagement & Administration as anopportunity or personal improvement. Ican experience, learn, grow, and become a
better individual and leader, he says. And Ican give back to a job I enjoy.
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Beore Linda Hulett had even entered high school, she discoveredshe was a typing wizard. I recognized that I was gited in thatdepartment, she says. My typing teacher told me.
My counselors and teachers didnt really encourage me to pursuebusiness until they saw my production, she adds. Then everythingchanged. In high school, Hulett was asked to help teachers with theiradministrative work. They picked a ew o us who were gited in that
area, she recalls, I was chosen to work with a lot o teachers.Now, ater a career as a secretary that has lasted almost 25 years, Hulett
has completed her bachelors degree in project management rom DevryUniversity and is working as an assistant at Dynegy.
The sooner you realize your ull potential, the sooner youll be able tostart making the most o your talents. That means right now, in your highschool classes. Now is the time to really explore the subjects you enjoy andthose where you experience success. Like Hulett, you may nd you have
what it takes to succeed in business.
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The Business Management & Administration cluster is popular becausesuccessul pursuit o a career within any business concentration requiresa diverse set o skills. Business careers can take you into every eldo human endeavor, so it is essential to start your career with a solidgrounding in rigorous academic coursesEnglish, math, science, and
social studies.
As a graduate student in the masters degree program in businessadministration, Anna Marie Miller says one realizes how important it is
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not to cut academic corners in high school
i you want to excel in business studies incollege.
Miller avoided rigorous math classes inhigh school, and paid the price when she wasapplying to colleges. I took math classes likeConsumer Math instead o Algebra II orAdvanced Math, she explains, which youreally need or the college placement tests. I
had to take remedial math in college, andI had to pay or it even though I didnt getcollege credit or it.
Accounting or Everyone
Ron Zimmerman, chie executive ofcer othe Houston pharmaceutical company PLx
Pharma, has more than 30 years experiencein investment banking and startupmanagement in a variety o internationalfrms. He says math is important inmanagement no matter what the industry.
I strongly suggest anybody interestedin any kind o business take accountingclasses, Zimmerman says. Id actually
advise the classes or any career. Mostpeople go to work in a corporateenvironment. Pretty much everyoneis involved in budgets.
Focusing Electives
Courses such as Accounting, TouchSystems Data Entry, Business Inormation
Management I, Advertising and SalesPromotion are oered as career electives bymany Texas schools, and they are classesthat can help begin your preparation or abusiness career.
Think o the electives as the chance toocus on your job options. The electivesdier or each o the six business career
programs o study (see Program Profleson opposite page). Each program consists odierent electives designed to begin yourpreparation or those particular careers.
For example, an 11th grader ollowingthe Management program o study couldtake a Business Law course, while another
ollowing the Administrative & InormationSupport program o study might opt orWord Processing.
Sotware Savvy
Business Inormation Management hasbecome one o the most popular electivesbecause it oers the technical training to use
business sotware.In a startup situation, Zimmerman says,
he fnds mastery o basic sotware programs
such as Microsot Word and Excel extremely
helpul. Youve got to be rugal when yourestarting a company, so people need to besel-sufcient in basic skill sets. With theadvent o word processing and the Internet,people are expected to do a lot o theirown work.
Get Certifed
In some cases, you can begin work towardcertifcation in particular skills even whilein high school. Working toward MicrosotOfce Specialist certifcation, Internetand Computing Core certifcation, orcertifcation in Bookkeeping Fundamentals,or example, makes you more employable
now and builds the oundation or lateradvancement.
Imagine flling out your
parents or neighbors
tax returns and fling them electronically with
the Internal Revenue Service. Thats what
sophomores do every year at the Sidney Lanier
International Banking and Business Magnet
High School in San Antonio. These students
help people in the community whose income
qualifes them or ree service.We are the only high school in Texas that
does this, magnet coordinator Blanca Ramirez
declares proudly.
Sidney Lanier teachers trained by the IRS
show the accounting students how to prepare
tax returns, but the teachers dont do the actual
processingthey just supervise.
One o nine magnet schools around San
Antonio, Sidney Lanier caters to students
interested in international banking, marketing,
and entrepreneurship.
Operating as a school within a school,
the magnet program started in 1996 to help
students learn rom the trend toward a global
market economy. They take business classes
and rigorous academic subjects such as Englishand social studies.
Nearly 255 students out o 1,400 attending
the inner-city high school are part o the
international banking and business program.
They enhance their studies with senior year job
shadowing and internships.
An on-site fnancial service center doubles
as a classroom to provide business experience.
Students also manage a restaurant as well as
several shopsbeauty, auto and body repair,
and printthat serve the community.
Some students will go on to operate their
own businesses. Others attend college and
then begin careers in areas as varied as public
relations and human resources.
I am proud o these students, saysRamirez, who adds that the Sidney Lanier
magnet program reaches students in ways
traditional programs cant.
I you have a smaller community, she says,
you can nurture the students. These students
know someone cares about them. I think thats
why the program has been successul.
Taxing classesMagnet School Teaches International Finance and Business
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Until he took an internship with theoce supply store, Oce Max, hissophomore year, surng was the only
passion o Dulles High School student
Geo Hirschheim o Sugar Land. I was
one o those students who was just goingthrough the motions, he recalls.Being introduced to the business
world, however, changed his attitudedramatically. Almost instantly his gradesimproved and he was successul at the
University o Texas at San Antonio,recalls Hirschheims business teacherKen Kaser.
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Hirschheim credits his experience in theworld o work, together with his ocus
on business classes in high school, withgetting his career o the ground. Havinga strong oundation in marketing and
management prior to college gave me anadvantage over the other students whowere hearing it all or the rst time.
Practice makes perect, adds
Hirschheim, who went to work as
an executive with Shell InormationTechnology International in Houstonater college, starting in high schoolallowed time to practice. It gave me thecondence and knowledge I needed tocompete in the business world.
real Be Epeece
Internships are just one o the ways youcan get real business experience whilestill in high school. Education that takesplace outside the classroom, whether ithappens in the workplace or in student
organizations in your own high school, iscalled extended learning, and it is one othe best ways to nd out what business is
all about.Paid or unpaid internships
are temporary, part-time,or summer jobs that enablestudents to learn business
skills on the job. Oten internsare paired with a mentor, anemployee in the business whooversees their work and showsthem the ropes.
Make Cotact
One good place to make contacts andlearn about business in general isin career and technical studentorganizations (CTSOs) in
your school. Vickie Thomasis state advisor or the studentorganization Texas BusinessProessionals o America (seeBusiness Competition onnext page). Among a hosto other activities, she says,BPA helps students set up
job shadowing with businessproessionals.
Job shadowing allowsstudents the opportunityto observe business
proessionals on a typical dayat work. We have matchedup students with proessionals
in every job eld romaudiovisual to accounting,says Thomas. Students getan idea o all aspects obusiness management, andconnect with proessionalswho might later help with
mentoring, internship, or evenemployment opportunities.
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volteeVolunteering is another way to acquirepractical work experience. There are manyvolunteer opportunities that can provideleadership training, oer the responsibilityo dealing with real-lie or crisis situations,
and, perhaps most signicantly, allowstudents to gain the maturity and wisdom todeal with adversity.
In Texas, there are opportunities throughthe American Red Cross, the SpecialOlympics, the March o Dimes, and Habitator Humanity, among others. Both the
Red Cross and Habitat sponsored hugecontingencies rom Texas to aid theongoing clean up resulting rom theHurricane Katrina disaster in the Gulregion, says Thomas.
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creATe a caporTFolioOne valuable tool that can help you getready or college and beyond is a careerportolioa collection o items that
document your achievements both inand out o school, assembled in oneconvenient package.
A career portolio is not simplya resume, although it can certainlyinclude one. So what should go in acareer portolio? A variety o things,
depending on your own personalexperiences. It could include transcriptsand grades; writing samples; letterso recommendation rom teachers,mentors, or employers; awards youvereceived; and items that documentother activities, such as internships and
job shadowing experiences.
You need to be specicdates, howmany years, any awards, what theymeant, and who you received themrom, says Grace Brauchle, who helpsstudents put their portolios togetheras the career center coordinator orLehman High School in Kyle.
Brauchle says portolios come in
handy when students apply or jobs oradmission to college. First impressionsare a very big thing, she says, and
you want to be the one whose papersget passed around the oce. You wantto be the one where the admissionscounselors say, Wow, look at this one!
And a portolio doesnt have to besimply a collection o papers. Artistsand photographers use their portoliosto provide visual examples o theirwork, and so can you. Do you havephotos o someone giving you anaward? Put them in. How about a videoo a perormance? Include it on a DVD.
Do you have experience in Web design?Make an online portolio to showcasewhat you can do.
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John Mullen is a Highland Villageconsultant advising startupcompanies that are just in the
process o getting o the ground. He hasa bachelors degree in philosophy and a
master o business administration (MBA)degree and owns his own business.
I really enjoy the variety o the work Ido, he says. I get to collaborate with newpeople, in dierent industries, and on avariety o projects.
I think the philosophy degree hashelped me more in business than theMBA, because it trained me to seekcreative solutions to problems, he
continues. I have seen ar too manybusiness graduates who can only apply acookie-cutter approach to problems.
As Mullen points out, education iscritical to success in Business Management& Administration. O course, a ewentrepreneurs can and do create successul
businesses right out o high school.Nearly every successul businessperson,however, has gotten urther educationater graduation, whether it is militaryservice, certication in a business skill,a two-year associates degree, a our-yearbachelors degree, or a master o businessadministration degree, which takes two
years ater earning an undergraduate
degree. I you want to be successul inbusiness, plan on continuing to learnthroughout your entire career.
Tec PepA great way to get your start at two-yearcolleges is to take advantage o the TechPrep system in Texas. Tech Prep giveshigh school students a seamless transition
to postsecondary business education bycombining high school work with two
years o study at community colleges andtechnical schools.
South Texas College, or example, withve campuses and centers in McAllen,Weslaco, and Rio Grande City, is a big
supporter o Tech Prep in south Texas. The
college has partnerships with 16 schooldistricts in Hidalgo and Starr counties.
As early as their sophomore year, highschool students begin earning collegecredit toward an associates degree atSouth Texas College with a wide varietyo business specializationsaccounting,
banking, marketing, management, andimport/export/logistics.
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Although most management positionsrequire at least a bachelors degree,
there are other business careers, such asaccounting or administrative support, that
do not. Employers oten look or people
with associates degrees, certicates, orrelated work experience.
Most community colleges oer several
types o educational programs. The rst,academic transer programs, gets studentsready to switch schools ater their second
year o higher education and pursue abachelors degree in business at a our-
year university. Applied studies consisto programs designed to allow
students to earn a businesscerticate or associates degreeleading directly to employment.
North Central Texas Collegeoers an associate o appliedscience (AAS) degree in businessmanagement or 70 credit hoursor in computer inormation systems
or 61 credit hours. It also oersa certicate o businessmanagement or networkoperating systems or31 credit hours.
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Mltay OptoThe military is another option oroccupational training in many subjectsmath, bookkeeping, accounting, nancethat can prepare trainees or employment orurther education ater military service.
In addition to these great on-the-job trainingprograms, the military also oers numerousways to earn our-year degrees. They have creditprograms, military colleges, service academies,online classes, and the Reserve OcersTraining Corps (ROTC), which pays studentswho participate during college.
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Kathleen Cochran advanced all the way tovice president at Heritage Bag, a nationalindustrial trash bag company headquarteredin Carrollton, without a college degree o anykind. She was ortunate enough, however, to
have a mentor on her rst job who taught hereverything about business.
The lack of a college degree didnt hold
me back, but a college degree wasnt
necessary in those days, she says. My advice tostudents today is to get a degree. Today, all things
being equal, the person with the degree will get
the job. Our company requires at least a four-year
degree now.
Students applying or transerring to our-year universities in Texas have many choiceso excellent bachelors degree programs inbusiness. Business Weekmagazine ranksthe University o Texas at Austins our-yearbusiness program number 10 in the country.
The cost o UT Austins program is a littleover a quarter o the tuition at the number 1
program at the University o Notre Dame.Three other Texas collegesSouthern
Methodist University, Texas ChristianUniversity and Texas A&Mhave our-yearbusiness programs in the top 50 nationwide.
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Students interested in careers in managementshould look into MBA programs. Theseprograms, usually two years long, aim to givestudents all the toolseconomics, nance,marketing, organizational psychologyneeded to be rst-rate managers.
UT Austins MBA program is ratednumber 11 in the country byForbesand, interms o students personal investment, theprogram pays or itsel.A Forbesmagazine survey ound that1996 graduates averaged annual raises overve years o over 14 percent.
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AceeTea: the name or Texass
college and career education initiative.
Atclato aeemet:
ormal agreements between or amongeducational organizations (high schools,community colleges, and universities)that align courses and majors in a waythat allows students to transition rom
one institution to another without losso course credit or time.
Aocate eee: a two-yeardegree awarded by a community ortechnical college.
Bacelo eee: a our-yeardegree awarded by a university.
Caee a teccal tet
oazato (CTsO): curricularorganizations or students that oeractivities and competitions related toparticular careers.
Caee clte:a way o organizingcurricula, instruction, and assessmentaround specic occupational groups (orexample, Inormation Technology or HealthScience) that oers students core academics,coursework related to specic occupations,and extended learning experiences.
Caee ace:structureddevelopmental experiences presentedsystematically rom kindergarten through12th grade that help students analyze and
evaluate abilities, skills, and interests.
Caee potolo:a collection o studentwork indicating progress made in subjects,activities, or programs. In career clustersystems, portolios are oten used to assessstudent perormance in extended learning
experiences.
doctoal eee: a degree awardedby universities or study beyond a mastersdegree. Also reerred to as a Ph.D. orproessional degree.
dal cet:credit given in both high
school and college or college-level coursestaken while in high school.
Etee lea epeece:
participation in career and technical studentorganizations, extracurricular activities, jobshadowing, internships, or service learning.
acal a: scholarships, grants, loans,and work-study unds awarded to studentsto pay or college expenses.
itep: an extended learning
experience in which students worktemporarily at entry-level jobs in careers
that interest them.
Job aow: an extended learningexperience in which students observeproessionals in particular careers as they gothrough a day on the job.
Mate eee: a degree awarded byuniversities or study beyond a bachelorsdegree.
Potecoay ecato:
education beyond high school. Middleschool and high school are reerred to assecondary education, sopostsecondarymeansater high school.
Poam o ty: a way o organizing
the curricula and educational activitieswithin a career cluster related to a studentsspecic academic and career goal.
sece lea: an extended learningexperience in which students do volunteerwork related to their career goals.
Taete ty clte:
six industry clusters that have beenidentied by Texas as high-demand, high-growth sectors paying high wages. As theyare developed by the State, these may be hotareas in which to build a rewarding career.
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Tea Aceemet Pla (TAP):
an education plan suggesting the highschool courses a student should taketo prepare successully or graduationand transition into postsecondary
education. The vision or AchieveTexasis that eighth graders, in consultationwith their parents/guardians,counselors, and teachers, will select
a program o study and create a TAP.TAPs are to be reviewed and revised atleast once each school year.
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Ask OsCARThe State o Texas has created a special website or students and others
researching careers. Its called the Occupation and Skill Computer-
Assisted Researcher, or OSCAR or short. Youll fnd a wealth o
inormation about hundreds o career choices. You can look up careers,
or example, by cluster. Choose I Want to Take the Full Flight rom the
home page, then click on Clusters on the ollowing page. There, youcan choose a career cluster and a career group, which yields a list o jobs.
Click on a job title and youll get a brie description o the occupation and
a summary o education requirements. Choose Report at the bottom
o the page and youll see a detailed look at the job, including job duties,
employment outlook, wages in Texas, and the knowledge, skills, and
abilities needed or the occupation. There are many other ways to click
through the data to explore your career options, rom Able Seaman to
Zoologist. To explore OSCAR, go to www.ioscar.org/tx.
Online
Explore these Internet resources for moreabout your education and career options.
Info
The Texas Workorce Commission has created an
online resource called Reality Check to help you
understand how much money youll need to live on yourown after high school or college and how you can earn it. There are three ways to explore careers,
expenses, and earnings. For the rst option, which is called Get a Reality Check, you choose
an area youd like to live in, such as Austin. You then go through a series o screens with real-world
costs or items such as housing, clothing, transportation, health care, and personal expenses. The site
automatically adds up your estimated monthly expenses, then uses salary inormation or Texas to
show you careers that will make you that much money. The second option, called Future Salary,
starts with the wages you expect to earn, what education you plan to pursue, and the career cluster that
interests you. Then it generates a list of careers in which you can make that amount of money. The
third option, Career Direct, begins with your career choice and the area where you want to live, then
shows how your estimated expenses subtract from the salary for your chosen job. The site, which
is at www.cdr.state.tx.us/realitycheck, is a great way to play what i when it comes to mixing your job,
earnings, and expense options.
Take aReality
AchieveTexas
www.AchieveTexas.org
The AchieveTexas website oersinormation about the initiative andcopies o the programs o study thatrecommend classes to take in high
school, extended learning opportunities,and postsecondary programs.
Americas Career InfoNet
www.acinet.org/acinetThis is the place to search or occupationalinormation, industry inormation, and
state-specifc labor market inormation.
Competency Model Clearinghousewww.careeronstop.org/competencymodel/default.aspxThis career planning resource ocuses on theskill sets and competencies essential or careersand industries.
College for Texans
www.collegefortexans.com
Here is everything a Texan needs to knowabout preparing or, applying or, and payingor college or technical school. And its all inone up-to-date, easy-to-navigate mega-site
almost as big as the state itsel. Remember:$4 billion is available every year to helpTexans attend college.
College Tech Prep of Texas
www.techpreptexas.orgTech Prep is a way to begin your course
o study in high school and continue ina community or technical college. The
result is a certifcate or associates degreein a career feld.
O*NET
(Occupational Information Network)
http://www.online.onetcenter.orgAlso available in schools and libraries,O*NET provides ull inormation onoccupations, including compensation,
employment prospects, and skill matchingor students. Inormation on compensationis available on a state-by-state basis.
U.S. Department of Labor
Occupational Outlook Handbook
www.bls.gov/oco
This nationally recognized resource oersinormation on job responsibilities,
earnings, working conditions, and jobprospects or the uture.
Check
The results of Reality Check show you how expenses addup quickly when you are living on your own.
STUDENT RESOURCES
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The career clusters icons above are used with permission o theStates Career Clusters Initiative, 2010. For more inormation, visitwww.careerclusters.org.
AchieveTexas Career Clusters
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Well, AchieveTexas is the name of Texass college and career education initiative. The idea behind it is
simple: Planning for the future so that students achieve lifelong success. As AchieveTexas grows, youll
see how subjects such as English, math, science, and social studies are relevant to your personal goals
and ambitions. Youll get the chance to begin a plan that gets you where you want to go in life. Youll have
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skills. Best of all, youll be in control of your future. Read all 16 editions ofAchieveTexas in Action(available
through your counselor) to explore Texass career clusters and start on the road to success.
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