Business and Personal Finance © 2007Chapter 14:
Health, Disability, and Life InsuranceCareers in FinanceExplore careers in finance and related areas by learning more the job outlook, career clusters, and career pathways for each job profiled in the chapters of Personal Finance. As you do the research activities and examine these careers, you might discover other jobs that interest you. Career Clusters A career cluster is a group of similar occupations and industries. Career clusters were developed by the U.S. Department of Education as a way to organize career planning. These are some of the career clusters that are featured in Personal Finance:  <![CDATA[<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=jpg::::/sites/dl/free/0078687128/349912/finance.jpg','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (1.0K)</a>]]>
Finance
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Retail/Wholesale Sales and Service
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Business and Administration
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Architecture and Construction
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Education and Training
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Career Pathways A career pathway is an area of concentration within a career cluster. Each pathway contains a group of careers requiring similar academic and technical skills as well as similar industry certifications or postsecondary education.
Insurance AgentCareer Pathway Insurance Services
Workers in this pathway provide services to policyholders and insurance companies. Jobs include: • Actuary
• Insurance Underwriter
• Insurance Appraiser
• Claims Agent
• Customer Service Agent
• Claims Adjuster
• Claims Examiner
• Insurance Agent*
• Processing Clerk
• Claims Investigator
• Insurance Broker Career Cluster <![CDATA[<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=jpg::::/sites/dl/free/0078687128/349912/finance.jpg','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (1.0K)</a>]]>
Finance To see all the career pathways in this career cluster, click on http://www.glencoe.com/sec/careers/cclusters/pdf/cluster_finance.pdf Research Activity - Find out the job outlook and salary range for this career and write them down. Go to the Bureau of Labor’s online Occupational Outlook Handbook to learn more about this career: http://www.bls.gov/oco/.
- List two job openings for this job or a related job in any U.S. city. Go to an online job site to find job openings for this career: www.monster.com.
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