TRANSPORTATION,DISTRIBUTION& LOGISTICS

Definition:Planning, management, and movement of people, air, rail and water and related professional support services such as Transportation infrastructure planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment and facility maintenance

FIVE CAREERS WITHIN THE CLUSTER

Air/space transportation
-Transportation managers
-Flight Engineer
Rail Transportation
-Locomotive Engineers
-Traffic Managers
Water transportation
-Dispatches
-Ship Engineers …

CAREERS IN THE TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS

Pathway are really on the move! These are the people that drive or pilots the vehicles that transport People and freight. Equally important to this pathway are the support people who ensure that any cargo transport is safe, secure, and on time.

EDUCATION NEEDED

Identify training, education and certification requirement for occupation choices, such as participate in career-replace training and/or degree program; pass certification test to qualify for licensure and/or certification. And you need at least a high school diploma and/ or a bachelor degree.

SKILLS AND Knowledge

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• Organize oral and written information.
• Predict potential outcome and / or solution. And propaganda techniques.
• Comprehend key elements of oral written information such as cause/ effect, comparison/contrasts, conclusion, context, charts/ tables/ graph
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

OUTLOOK

For this career cluster the outlook will be strong for the next 10 years.

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WAGES

BLS counted about 10.7 millions jobs in the SOC occupations that are assigned to the transportation, distribution, and logistics cluster. Median annual wages for these occupations ranged from $19,500 for parking lot attendants to $121,280 for air traffic controllers.

WORK CITED

• http://www.careertech.org/career-clusters
• http://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2015/article/career-clusters.htm
• https://www.onetonline.org/find/career