Once you've completed exercise steps 1 - 9 in Tab One of the Career Coaching for Students guidebook, step 10 and all of the exercises in Tab Two take you much deeper into the world of work - with a focus for what has high potential to excite you. Use these resources to explore and learn about careers of interest to you.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Site for Kids: Exploring Career Information
Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Site for Kids: Exploring Career Information
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Web site for kids provides introductory career information for students. Most of the material on the site has been adapted from the Bureau’s Occupational Outlook Handbook-a career guidance publication for adults and upper-level high school students that describes the job duties, working conditions, training requirements, earnings levels, and employment prospects of hundreds of occupations.
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
For hundreds of different types of jobs-such as teacher, lawyer, and nurse-the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you:
==>the training and education needed
==>earnings
==>expected job prospects
==>what workers do on the job
==>working conditions
==>In addition, the Handbook gives you job search tips, links to information about the job market in each State, and more.
Ideal for Step 21, Writing a Future View for a Wall Street Journal Article
There are many social networking sites on the Internet. Some are formatted to enable a member to “write” their biography. Use these sights to find people in careers and get a flavor for some of the things you could do over the next ten years to write your “Wall Street Journal article”. Having a future view (vision of a desired future state for yourself) is essential for achieving that vision.
Junior Achievement, DeVry University, and Career Corner Digital have partnered to create a highly engaging career exploration resource for students. Located on the new Junior Achievement Student Center the videos are fast-paced, first-person videos that take students behind the scenes at some of the world’s top companies, providing them with an inside look at life on the job.
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Monster.com Offers New Career Mapping Tool (in Beta)
Monster.com has found a way to harness all the resume data they collect on individuals into a useful tool for career exploration. This is currently in Beta which means it isn’t totally cooked. Our tests suggested it is a pretty good tool if your career area is represented and isn’t much help if you are looking at careers outside the mainstream (small demand type careers). More importantly, we think it has great potential and needs to be enriched with more data. To create your own Career Map go here.
This is a for-profit site with a great amount of free quality content. The Careers and Industries section of their site has incredibly rich information and additional “recommended resources” that seem sincerely helpful. They do offer their career-specific guides for a fee but it is a soft sell and not intrusive. No collection of personal information to access the free content. Well worth a visit, easy to find information.
Finding Your Future: iBIO Institute Guide to Life Sciences Careers
Find Your Future in Life Sciences
Science Career Investigation (SCI) is part of the iBIO Institute’s Finding Your Future(TM) programs. Utilizing the vast experience and expertise of industry professionals, SCI gives students current and accurate information about science jobs. The website (http://www.finding-your-future.org) presents details about more than 250 science and business occupations in Illinois life sciences, including job descriptions, skills and education requirements, expected salary ranges and how to advance in a given career.
Top 50 In-Demand Occupations as determind by U.S. Department of Labor. The Top 50 Occupations were selected in the following way:
Created a “Top 50 Rating” by multiplying the Projected Need for Employees times the Median Hourly Wage,
Using the Top 50 Rating, sorted the occupations from highest to lowest,
Eliminated occupations whose Median Hourly Wage was less than $20/hr, and
Of the remaining occupations, selected only the top 50.
For a complete list of occupations and to find more information on education requirements and salary ranges, please visit the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Web page at http://www.bls.gov/emp/home.htm.
Pursue the Passion, graciously sponsored by jobing.com, has produced over 200 high quality video shorts and text of interviews with people “happy” and ”successful" in their jobs.
The jobs are listed according to career clusters. You may find the type of job you are looking for will be found in several career clusters. Refer to your top three career choices from Step 10 in the guidebook to go on the road, read and watch the interviews.
Over 400 students listened to our own Dan LaJoe present information on new and emerging careers in Houston on December 9, 2008 at the first annual Career Quest. Great information and research links about the future.
The Math Fanatics Website
Math Resources for Career and Technical Education focusing on how math is used by specific technical careers.
Want to BE a Math Fanatic
This Math Resource Directory will link you to resources on the web for Math Directories, Math Tutorials, Calculators and Converters, Money and Financial Literacy, Formulas and Symbols, Data, Facts and Figures, History of Math and Math Tools.
Explore vocational and technical careers at The Vocational Careers Information Center - All Knowing Web Site! Each career path page on the Vocational Information Center Website includes links to various career descriptions as well as links to educational sites relating to the specific career; such as; tutorials, glossaries, directories, associations, postsecondary education, aspects of the industry, jobs, and related academics.
Roadtrip Nation (RTN) features short, exclusive videos of some of the best interviews of “successful people” and cross country roadtrip experiences! Visit the RTN website
Education Portal: A guide to undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees, career education and online degree programs
Education-portal.com is a resource hub for students and working professionals to research career paths, degree programs, and schools within their chosen disciplines. This was accomplished by a dedicated team of experts including educators, librarians, college counselors, career counselors, and journalists to provide practical information in both written and video formats. This site may be sponsored by smaller colleges and universities wanting to promote their programs.
States Career Clusters Plans of Study Main Website
Career Clusters Institute
All of the careers in each of the 16 Career Clusters are sub-grouped into Pathways. The number of Pathways per Cluster varies from two to seven.
Achieve Texas Programs of Study
Programs of Study (POS) have been created for each of the 16 Career Clusters and are accessible by clicking on the icons below.
Whether you live in Texas or not, this site has very important information about the future of jobs of all kinds that will be in demand for years to come.
Biography.com
Home of the most diverse video library of stars, newsmakers and successful icons. Find out what school, what major(s) and what experiences helped create success.
Career Voyages by the U.S. Department of Education
Career Voyages by the U.S. Department of Education
This link provides students with information on career clusters to investigate a wide range of career choices. The career cluster approach makes it easier for students to understand the relevance of their required courses and helps them select their elective courses more wisely. Includes sample Plans of Study worksheets for a wide range of career interests.
United States Department of Labor O*Net Occupational Research System
United States Department of Labor O*Net Occupational Research System
The O*NET system is a unique, powerful source for continually updated information on skill requirements and occupational characteristics primarily for adult use. The link provided here takes you to the Career Finder site where you can put in a keyword and quickly zero in on possible jobs based on the key word. As an example, use keyword “Doctor” or “Film” to see highly related information.
OSCAR, the Occupational and Skill Computer Assisted Researcher
OSCAR, the Occupational and Skill Computer Assisted Researcher
OSCAR is a product of the Texas Workforce Commission/Career Development Resources (TWC/CDR) and was originally developed under a grant from the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas have adopted this site to assist both students and adults. The online career interest assessment is free. You might use the OSCAR assessment results to compare with your Success Discoveries assessment results.
America’s Career InfoNet Careers on Video
Videos showing the types of work people do in nearly 450 careers and videos for the 16 clusters recognized by the Department of Education plus more.
