INDIANACAREERREADY is designed to connect you to careers that are most in-demand with employers now and in the future.
Here you can learn more about the 16 National Career Clusters and their associated occupations. This career cluster framework helps students discover their interests and their passions by empowering them to choose the educational pathway that can lead to success in high school, college, and career.
Career Clusters
16 National Career Clusters representing more than 79 Career Pathways – Navigate your success!
Career Clusters contain occupations in the same field of work that require similar skills. Students, parents, and educators can use career clusters to help focus education plans towards obtaining the necessary knowledge, competencies, and training for success in a particular career pathway.
| Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources | The production, processing, marketing, distribution, financing, and development of agricultural commodities and resources including food, fiber, wood products, natural resources, horticulture, and other plant and animal products/resources. | |
| Architecture and Construction | Careers in designing, planning, managing, building and maintaining the built environment. | |
| Arts, Audio-Video Technology, and Communications | Designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content including visual and performing arts and design, journalism, and entertainment services. | |
| Business Management and Administration | Planning, organizing, directing and evaluating business functions essential to efficient and productive business operations. Business Management and Administration career opportunities are available in every sector of the economy. | |
| Education and Training | Planning, managing and providing education and training services, and related learning support services. | |
| Finance | Planning, services for financial and investment planning, banking, insurance, and business financial management. | |
| Government and Public Administration | Executing governmental functions to include Governance; National Security; Foreign Service; Planning; Revenue and Taxation; Regulation; and Management and Administration at the local, state, and federal levels. | |
| Health Science | Planning, managing, and providing therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research and development. | |
| Hospitality and Tourism | Hospitality and Tourism encompasses the management, marketing and operations of restaurants and other food-services, lodging, attractions, recreation events and travel related services. | |
| Human Services | Preparing individuals for employment in career pathways that relate to families and human needs such as counseling and mental health services, family and community services, personal care, and consumer services. | |
| Information Technology | Building linkages in IT occupations framework: for entry level, technical, and professional careers related to the design, development, support and management of hardware, software, multimedia, and systems integration services. | |
| Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security | Planning, managing, and providing legal, public safety, protective services and homeland security, including professional and technical support services. | |
| Manufacturing | Planning, managing and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance and manufacturing/ process engineering. | |
| Marketing, Sales & Service | Planning, managing, and performing marketing activities to reach organizational objectives. | |
| Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics | Planning, managing, and providing scientific research and professional and technical services (e.g., physical science, social science, engineering) including laboratory and testing services, and research and development services. | |
| Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics | Planning, management, and movement of people, materials, and goods by road, pipeline, air, rail and water and related professional and technical support services such as transportation infrastructure planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment and facility maintenance. |
