Career Planning

At Greensburg Salem High School we have begun incorporating the 'Career Pathways' model to organize our courses into 5 career clusters. These pathways help organize careers with similar interests and educational requirements and align the course work needed to successfully pursue these career interests after high school. Here is the Westmoreland County's Career Pathway Model which is used in our course selection guide as an organizing tool to showing students which courses and electives are associated with potential careers/career clusters.

If you need any help regarding career planning, please contact your school counselor. If you found any of the above information particularly helpful or if you have suggestions on how we can provide you with better online information, please let your guidance counselor know.

Not sure what careers are a good fit for you? Let's start exploring options by taking the self-assessment and some career exploration here:

https://www.bls.gov/
https://www.pacareerzone.org/
https://www.mynextmove.org/
https://www.bls.gov/bls/topicsaz.htm
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
https://www.careeronestop.org/explorecareers/assessments/self-assessments.aspx
https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip
http://www.educationplanner.org/
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/majors-careers

 

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