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Career Cluster 7
HUMAN RESOURCE SERVICES
CROSS-CLUSTER SKILL AREAS
In addition to focusing on a Pathway, students gain transferable skills across Career Clusters. These cross-cluster
skills broaden a student’s understanding of how different careers connect and intersect.
• Information Technology and Communications Support: Telecommunications, data and computer support
services, including communications systems and devices, film and audio-visual services and equipment, computer
software and hardware, and Internet services.
• Financial Management and Accounting: Business support services in finance and accounting, including
budgeting and fiscal operations.
• Legal Services: Legal services that address all aspects of the organization, including purchasing contracts,
leases, human resources, and risk management.
• Government Relations/Legislative Affairs: Managing government communications, lobbying, and managing
relationships with government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.
• Human Resources/Training: Business activities involved in recruiting and hiring employees, performance
reviews, compensation and benefits management, labor relations, and compliance with government laws and
regulations, and the training and development of employees, ranging from orientation to professional and
management development.
• Risk Management and Security: Services that provide health, safety and environmental protection, insurance
for employees and customers, loss prevention, compliance with government laws and regulations, and security.
• Maintenance/Facility Support: Services involving the maintenance of physical facilities, including architecture
and design services, facility and equipment maintenance services, building cleaning services, and landscape
and grounds planning and maintenance.
• Marketing: Market analysis, advertising, and promotion and communications services.
• Health and Safety/Environmental Management: Managing and improving health and safety, and maintaining
compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including OSHA and EPA.
• Customer Relations: Managing customer relations and insuring that customers receive the services they are
promised and are satisfied with the services they receive.
• Fundraising: Seeking and securing financial resources for the organization, including government and
foundation grants and corporate, community, and individual contributions.
PROGRAM
HIGHLIGHT
HUMAN RESOURCE SERVICES
The Maryland Academy for Teacher Education aligns with the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and
Support Consortium (INTASC) and the Maryland Essential Dimensions of Teaching (EdoTs). The program
prepares students for further education and careers in the education profession. The high school program
is designed to articulate to a Maryland postsecondary teacher education program. Upon completion of the
program and passing the ParaPro test, high school graduates are ready for employment in the teaching
profession. This program is based on the outcomes of the Maryland Associate of Arts in Teaching (A.A.T.)
degree, which aligns with the National Council for the Accreditation for Teacher Education (NCATE)
standards. Postsecondary students completing the A.A.T. can become a paraprofessional or transfer to a
bachelor’s degree program to prepare to enter the teaching profession.