Covers various careers for students who are just beginning to think about their future. This volume provides descriptions of the US Department of Education's 16 Career Clusters, and a Career Cluster icon in each job article enables students to read about jobs in the clusters that interest them.

Volume 1 also features a new section about self-assessment testing, which includes an A-to-Z overview of the most popular tests, as well as a sample test based on the O
*NET Work Interest Profiler. Highlights include: 656 up-to-date career articles; 57 new career articles; new Skills Spotlight sidebars that tie each career to the U.S. Department of Labor's SCANS skills and competencies; new coverage of U.S. Department of Education's Career Clusters; new coverage of career assessment tests; more than 650 black-and-white photographs, more than 125 new to this edition; and, up-to-date glossary and government classification indexes.