If you are interested in learning or researching more about careers (career exploration)
please feel free to access the following sites for quality resources available
on the World Wide Web:
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2002-03
Edition
The standard for occupational information used by counselors and educators. The
entire content of the book is online at this site.
CareerOneStop
The nation's publicly-funded resource for jobseekers and businesses. Find jobs--from
entry level to technical to professional to CEO. Identify job-ready workers with
the right skills. Locate public workforce services in your area. Explore alternative
career paths, compare salary data for different occupations, learn which careers
are hot, get resume writing tips and job interview strategies, and much more.
O*NET™ OnLine!
The O*NET is the authoritative source of occupational data collected and organized
by the Department of Labor.
Washtenaw
Community College
A premier career web site right here in Michigan.
Talent Freeway
This is marketed as Michigan's Highway to success for all ages. The site offers
information on careers, jobs, tips, career inventories and much more.
MyFuture
This site is operated by the Defense Information School. It reviews career opportunities
in the various branches of the military.
The JobWeb
An excellent career resource web site.
The Career Key ™
A career test that measure your skills, abilities, values, interests, and personality.
Identify promising careers and get accurate career information about them. This
is a professional-quality test.
Job Profiles
This site covers the personal side of work, because they believe that a good fit
between your interests and your chosen field is the number one correlation for
your success.
America's Career
InfoNet Center
This site navigation tool for the CareerOneStop was created to help you identify
your needs; learn how elements of the CareerOneStop (America's Job Bank and America's
Career InfoNet) may help you meet your needs; and link to appropriate features
of America's Job Bank and America's Career InfoNet or link to other appropriate
resources.
The ASVAB Program
The ASVAB Career Exploration Program provides tools developed by the Department
of Defense (DoD) to help high school and post secondary students across the nation
learn more about career exploration and planning. Since the mid 1990s, the ASVAB
Career Exploration Program has provided high quality, cost-free career exploration
and planning materials and services to over 14,000 of the nation's high schools.
Ontario Ministry of
Education's Occupational Description Guid e
A comprehensive A to Z listing of career descriptions. A good place to begin any
career exploration.
The Career Zone
A creative web site that provides in-depth information on a wide variety of careers.
College Board Career
Search
This site provides information about specific careers, a career questionnaire
and information on job selection criteria. In the questionnaire portion of this
site you can answer a series of questions and several careers will be suggested
for you to investigate.
Job-Star, Guides Specific
Careers
These sites are packed with information about planning your career. What kind
of training or education is required? What can you earn? What kind of environment
will you work in? What's hot? What's not?
What Can I do With
This Major?
A real eye-opener as to just what you can do!
The Personality Page
This site has tests for categorizing your personality. Also explains personality
types and lists jobs suitable for each type.
Temperament: Different Drums - Different Drummers
The Keirsey Temperament and Character web site allows you to take an online personality
inventory and then gives a summary of your temperament and personality type.
Quintessential Careers
This site has multiple career assessments to aid you in deciding between possible
career choices. It also has links to other career resource sites such as Career
Guide to Industries which provides information on available careers by industry.
Assessment.com
This site requires that you join (there is no charge for membership) and then
lets you access its free Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential (MAPP) Assessment
which includes a free narrative with an instant online result and five free MAPP
matches to jobs.
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