Career education concepts are all closely linked to the occupational cluster, which has become the basic element in career education curriculum development and programing. Procedures for preparing a cluster-based occupational curriculum are presented, including the collection of manpower data and occupational selection. Other components of the model include: (1) describing selected occupations and clustering these occupations by commonality of job tasks, (2) analyzing the instructional components of each instructional task to provide the teacher with a "task module" for teaching each identified skill, (3) skill transferability, which is demonstrated by cluster commonality analysis with career ladder sequencing of tasks, (4) pre-assessment of students, (5) individualized instruction, and (6) multimedia instructional materials. (MF)