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Career Exploration Tools and Resources
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Whether you're a student searching for your first career, a job-seeker in between jobs, or a season professional considering a career change the career exploration websites and resources below can help you make a successful and lasting tradition.
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Career Exploration Websites and Resources:
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- CareerOverview.com - offers a comprehensive career information guide providing career reviews, job descriptions, and employment forecasts. Selecting the right career and making informed career decisions requires reliable information about the opportunities that a particular occupation may provide. Unfortunately, so many individuals are quick to pursue a career path that ultimately does not enable them to acheive their professional aspirations. CareerOverview.com can help you find out more about a career before pursuing a career path.
- Vocational Information Center - allows job seekers to explore vocational and technical careers, check out the skills employers really want, find a trade school, research technical topics and take a look at the current job market.
- EUREKA - offers career exploration, career information, skills, and career assessments. Also enables you to locate colleges, universities, and trades schools that match your unique needs and career goals.
- Career Development Manual from the University of Waterloo - provides a variety of self-assessment forms and career exploration exercises that can be printed and work at your own pace.
- Major Resource Kits - provided by the University of Delaware - a large collection of useful "kits" for assessing a variety of majors. Major Resource Kits include descriptions of majors, job titles, career paths resource materials.
- What Can I Do With A Major In...? - provided by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Career Services deparment. Is a great resource that provides careers associated with different majors and links to major career websites.
- What Can I Do With A Major In...? - provided by the Ashland University. Is a great resource that provides careers associated with different majors and links to major career websites.
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Job, Occupation, and Career Profiles:
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- Career Descriptions - short career descriptions including job titles and education requriements for specific careers. Provided by CareerExplorer.net.
- Career Browser - allows you browse jobs withing a variety career fields and find out about workings conditions, employment forecasts, and related professions. This service is provided by Collegeboard.com.
- Jobprofiles.org - allows you to read job profiles submitted by working professionals. Profiles include how rewarding the professionals find their jobs, job working conditions, future job challenges, and addition job specific advice.
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The U.S. Census Bureau has released data proving the substantial value of a degree in the United States. Workers 18 and over sporting bachelors degrees earn an average of $51,206 a year, while those with a high school diploma earn $27,915. But wait, there's more. Workers with an advanced degree make an average of $74,602, and those without a high school diploma average $18,734.
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