In this country a distinct youth labor market exists and a high proportion of youth are employed in these high turnover positions, mostly in the retail and food services sectors. While there are many long term career opportunities in these industries, any clustering schema should never be based only on a first job strategy. The term career major itself has proven to be problematic conjuring up the image that high school students would be expected to make decisions too early in life. As noted earlier, the education enterprise has long used the tool of clustering for a variety of purposes. It is simply a way to organize information about career pathways and educational and workplace requirements.
Clusters can help focus career exploration activities of students.
For faculty and institutional managers clusters are tools to use in the development coherent programs of study within a single institution and across institutional levels. For state government clusters can be tools used by several agencies to promote coordination of their work. The exact clustering schema is probably of less importance than having one.