We examined the possibilities of career education by looking at basic and general abilities of a class studying product development in high school home economics. From the results of a questionnaire, four possibilities of this class were extracted, and the effectiveness as career education was confirmed by students’ (1) understanding of their values and personality of others; (2) understanding of their role as a consumer; (3) understanding of employment through the processes of planning, execution and evaluation; and (4) forming of values and attitudes to work. As a future task, we should aim at career development that will be the foundation of social and professional independence, provided by a syllabus that learns from trial and error, presentation, and comprehensive product development knowledge.