Kuder, Inc. uses the States’ Career Clusters’ organizational system of occupational information. In this system, occupations are broadly classified under 16 career clusters. Within these 16 clusters are 79 pathways and more than 970 occupations.

In September 2008, the States’ Career Clusters released some changes to this organizational system of clusters, pathways, and occupations. These changes reflect the societal changes within the U.S. and currently represent new emerging fields and occupations.

On Dec. 9, 2008, all information within the Kuder^® Career Planning System and any other system powered by Kuder utilizing the 16 Career Clusters were updated to reflect those changes. The most obvious changes to users are summarized in this article.

Clusters and Pathway Changes

Business Management & Administration Cluster

• All pathway names within this cluster have changed.
• The old Marketing and Communications pathway has been eliminated.
• The old Business Financial Management and Accounting pathway has been removed from this cluster, divided, and transferred to the new Finance cluster.

Marketing Cluster

• All pathway names within this cluster have changed.
• Two pathways (Distribution and Logistics and E-marketing) have been eliminated.

Finance Cluster

• All pathway names have changed within this cluster.
• New pathway of Accounting (see related change to Business Management & Administration cluster).

Information Technology Cluster

• There was one significant pathway name change: Interactive Media has changed to Web and Digital.

There were some other minor pathway name adjustments made in other clusters e.g., Health Information changed to Health Informatics. In addition, many occupations were moved under different pathways. Those are not listed here in detail, but if you are unable to find an occupation under a pathway where you used to find it, please check related pathways.

As always our customer support team will be glad to assist you. Please feel free to contact us at 877.999.6227 or support@kuder.com.

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