States' Career Clusters Initiative, 2006, www.careerclusters.org |
Free Career
Interest Card
Click on the image below to download a PDF sample of a Career Interest card.


Cards CONNECT Student Interests
With Career Clusters
Career Discovery...What Can I Do?™ introduces students to the 16 career clusters through their strongest interests...something most students understand. Careers that connect to their interests motivate them to action. The creators of this unique and powerful card system are career services professionals with more than 30 years of counseling experience. They have counseled more than 30,000 students and found that identifying interests is the key to motivation. Career Discovery...What Can I Do?™ empowers students by providing the "roadmap" they need on their career journey.
Who Developed
Career Discovery...What Can I Do?™
Career Discovery...What Can I Do™ was designed and developed by former university career services professionals with more than 30 years of experience. The concept for Career Discovery...What Can I Do™ came from their observation that personal interests can serve as the spark to get students excited about career thinking and planning -- when students focused on their interests, their career exploration flourished.
Creators and Developers of
Career Discovery...What Can I Do?™:
Gerry Phaneuf, B.A. Sociology and M.Ed. Texas Christian University
- 28 years of experience in career counseling.
- Served as Director of Career Services at Creighton University and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Assistant Director at Texas Tech University.
LaMar Lind, B.A. Education University of Nebraska at Kearney
- 30 years of experience in secondary education and career counseling.
- Served as program administrator at Creighton University, career consultant for Pathways, career advisor for Career Centers, Inc., and Director of the evening college at Nebraska College of Business.
