| Career
Exploration
A guide to the process of finding the right career
and job for you.
Our detailed guide to the
career exploration process, its importance and
how to go about researching and exploring and
finding the career you love.
Informational
Interviewing
A great way to explore careers, network and develop
job leads!
Informal networking is one
of the best sources of job leads and opportunities.
It gives you a way to investigate a specific career
field and help you narrow your target job choices.
And while you get advice on where you might find
the best fit, you are broadening your network
of contacts for future reference. This
article tells about the informational interview
process including who
and how to make contacts
as well as how to prepare
for and handle your actual informational interview.
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Exploration Links |
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Occupational
Outlook Handbook
From
the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
The Occupational Outlook Handbook
is a source of career information,
designed to provide valuable assistance
to individuals making decisions about
their future work lives. Revised
every two years, the Handbook describes
what workers do on the job, working
conditions, the training and education
needed, earnings, and expected job
prospects in a wide range of occupations.
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Career
Exploration Tools & Resources
From
Quintessential Careers
Some great tools and resources for
exploring careers from Quintessential
Careers. These resources are great
whether it is a student searching
for your first career or an established
job-seeker considering a career change. |
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Career
Guide to Industries
From
the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
The Career Guide to
Industries provides information on
available careers by industry, including
the nature of the industry, working
conditions, employment, occupations
in the industry, training and advancement,
earnings and benefits, employment
outlook, and lists of organizations
that can provide additional information.
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O*Net
Online
From
US Department of Labor by the National
O*NET Consortium
Use O*Net to find occupations using
keywords or O*NET-SOC codes, browsing
by Job Families, or browsing by O*NET
Descriptor.
O*Net Skill Search allows you to use
a list of your skills to find matching
O*NET-SOC occupations. Use the Crosswalk
Search to enter a code or title from
the DOT, MOC, RAIS, or SOC to find
matching O*NET-SOC occupations.
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Career
Exploration
From
USAJOBS
Explore Your Career Opportunities
in the government. USAJOBS provides
a Career Interest Guide, Job Interest
Matching, Specific Job Exploration and
Matching Federal Jobs to Private Sector
Jobs. |
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Career
Exploration
From
America's CareerInfoNet
Guide from America's CareerInfoNet
on career exploration. This site provides
resources to help you identify career
needs, identify potentially satisfying
occupations, learn about available
education and training options, identify
resources to help learn how to manage
the job search process, and learn
more about various career options. |
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Career
Voyages
From
the Department of Labor (DOL) and
Department of Education
A website
designed to provide information on
high growth, high demand occupations
along with the skills and education
needed to attain those jobs. It is
geared towards students and career
changers. |
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Steps
to Success: Career Development eManual
From
the University of Waterloo Career
Center
This is an excellent
resource from University of Waterloo
focused on the career development
process. It guides a person through
self-assessment, research, decision-making,
network and contacts, work and life/work
planning. |
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Career
Zone
From
the New York State Department of Labor
NY
Career Zone allows you to choose areas
of academic or professional interest
and then discover specific occupations
that fit your fields of interest.
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KidzOnline
- Streaming Futures
From
Kidz Online
Streaming
Futures is a free, web-based career
program dedicated to helping teens
choose the right career path by allowing
them to watch internet-based video
interviews with career professionals
from all different careers. The site
if for teens but helpful for all age
groups who are exploring careers. |
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| Inspiration
for You |
"We
are told never to cross a bridge until
we come to it, but this world is owned
by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their
imagination far ahead of the crowd."
Anon
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| "You
can't build a reputation on what you're
going to do."
Henry
Ford |
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