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What Career Fits Your
Personality?
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Career Key - Measures how similar you are to six
personality types and how these relate to different
jobs. You are then encouraged to explore them using the
Occupational Outlook Handbook. It is fun and may
help you figure out the direction you should take.
The Keirsey
Temperament Sorter This personality inventory
organizes your answers to approximately 60 questions
into four personality types. More information is given
about temperament, and gives the personality types of
famous people. Very interesting site.
Career Interests Game (U. of Missouri)
This quick exercise is based on Holland's theory that
people and work environments can be classified into six
different groups: Realistic, Investigative, Social,
Artistic, Enterprising, or Conventional. Check it out!
ASVAB
Program - This site has information about
the ASVAB test and how the ASVAB can help you in career
exploration and planning for the future.
Students.net - The this site has
the only career test on the web that enables you to see
where you stand among 900 jobs. Look no
further now, find the Job that you are made for! |
Planning a
Career - This site has one of the best overall career
planning strategies available on the web. It is divided into
sections for high school, middle school and college students, as
well as a section for school counselors.
Occupational
Outlook Handbook - Published by the US Dept of Labor,
the Handbook gives detailed information on several hundred
different careers.
Learn Link
- Learn about different careers, your strengths and career
compatibility, build and post your resume.
Opportunity
Link - This site claims to let you explore "real
world" careers and learn what opportunities are available to
students through local businesses.
Career
Profiles Index - Alpha list of hundreds of careers with
descriptions that include education/training, wages, job outlook
and more. Great site!
Princeton Review - Go straight to the "career search" on
this site. It has a fairly large database of careers that start
with "A day in the life of ..."
Schools in the USA - Here you can search
1,000+ career profiles, use the career planner and find job
hunting tips.
LifeWorks - This website is dedicated to exploring
health and medical science careers.
Vocational Information
Center - Skills for Today's Workforce -
this website is full of wonderful information on many
careers
Commercial links:
Monster.com
CareerPaths Online
Fedworld.gov - available Federal jobs
Career Magazine
Careers.org
JobBank USA
Career Builder.com
America's Job Bank
MedHunters.com
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University
Career Centers - See the colleges you are considering
attending and what career services they offer.
Job Hunters Bible
- From the author of "What Color is my Parachute", Dick Bolles,
this site is designed as a supplement to his book. Lots of
very practical information here!
ResumeTutor **** (University of Minnesota)-
Get help with writing your resume here! This step-by
step-tutorial contains some excellent examples of three
different types of resumes and walks you through the process of
writing a resume.
| Military Career Opportunities |
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U.S. Military - Direct links to all the
armed forces recruiting websites.
Military
Career Guide Online - Want to find out lots of
factual information about what it is like to be in the
different branches of the Armed Forces? Then this is
your site. Very helpful information here! |
Bureau of Labor
Statistics - Largest resource on labor information
available on the web. If you are doing a term paper and need
stats on anything related to jobs/careers, this is it!
| Summer Jobs and
Internships |
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Coolworks - Jobs in National Parks and other
cool places! Great site to find the perfect summer job
in a vacation spot!
Summer Opportunities - There are thousands of
summer jobs, camps, and volunteer programs listed here.
It is a page from Peterson's (College and Career Info).
The Student
Conservation Association
The SCA provides expense-paid internships for college
kids to work in US Forests, National Parks and Wildlife
Refuges on conservation projects. It provides 15 - 19
year olds with volunteer opportunities.
Americorps
Outward
Bound Program - A wilderness challenge for the
adventuresome.
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