Also called: Vocational Instructor
Teaches a trade — like carpentry, culinary arts, or medical assisting — to young adults at a residential Job Corps center.
Teaches 16- to 24-year-olds to frame a wall, grades their work, and helps a student prepare for her industry certification test.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 2 years after high school. Industry experience and certification in the trade being taught.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Certification, Trade school. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Career & Technical Education.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years). Approximate; career/technical instructors.
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps with theory, but teaching young adults to frame a wall or cook in a real kitchen stays hands-on.
Classes: A CTE pathway in a trade, Algebra, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-1194.
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