AfTER high sChOOL
Give Your Career
Wings
make your future
TAke FLiGhT
after high school.
O
ne of every seven jobs in
Texas is a transportation-
related job,” reports Debbie
Jasek, associate research specialist for
the Texas Transportation Institute in
finance, accounting, purchasing, sales, and and fleet service (ground services). “All
College Station.
marketing. The requirements and training candidates hired for entry-level positions
If you want to land a job in
for each position differ.” must have specific training for their jobs,”
Transportation, Distribution & Logistics,
says Mattingly.
though, you will need to continue your
On-the-Job Training
career preparation after high school
Some careers in this cluster require Technical schools
graduation. Employment is available for
on-the-job experience. For example, at In other areas of Transportation,
education levels ranging from on-the-job
American Airlines, says Parker, “If a student Distribution & Logistics, such as automotive
training to master’s degrees in business,
is interested in pursuing a career right service, there are established programs for
often in the same company.
out of high school, I’d suggest that they postsecondary training. “Many automotive
Look at American Airlines, for example.
look at some of our airport jobs, such as technicians begin by working in repair
Michael Parker, a workforce strategy
reservations or ramp services.” shops part-time as helpers,” says Tony
consultant and college recruitment
Dottie Mattingly, a college recruiting Molla, vice president of communications
specialist with the airline, says, “We offer
and staffing manager at American Airlines, for the National Institute for Automotive
employment in airport operations and
says they train high school graduates in Service Excellence (ASE) in Leesburg,
customer service, as well as professional jobs
customer service (reservations and airport Virginia. “But most technicians start out by
that include a large variety of fields such as
agents), flight service (flight attendants), attending a technical training program in
high school, then move on to an advanced
training course at a junior college. There are
THe souTHwesT regIon unIversITY also training schools exclusively for training
TransporTaTIon cenTer HosTs
future auto technicians.”
THree summer InsTITuTes
Texas State Technical College (TSTC)
in Waco offers a variety of options in
for Texas HIgH scHool sTudenTs InTeresTed
automotive service training, including one-
In explorIng TransporTaTIon careers.
year certificates of completion and two-year
associate’s degrees in automotive repair,
says Norris Martin, TSTC’s automotive
technology department chair.
In addition to the general automotive
repair program, TSTC features the
DaimlerChrysler College Automotive
Program (CAP) and the Toyota Technical
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