Researching Your Career
What do you want to do with your life after you graduate? These sites might help you decide:
Ohio Career Information System (OCIS) (A username and password are necessary)
Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Mapping Your Future- CareerShip
http://mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/index.cfm
College Board's Career Browser- Major and Career Profiles
http://www.collegeboard.com/csearch/majors_careers/profiles/index.html
*College Board's College Search: http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp
America's Career InfoNet
Career InfoNet*Occupation Profiles (May need to select state first)
O*Net Online
http://online.onetcenter.org/ (try Occupation Quick Search, and then Summary tab)
Vocational Information Center- Career Exploration
http://www.khake.com/page2.html
COOL: College Opportunities Online Indicator (Search schools by program of study and/or location)
http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/
Career Briefs at About.com
http://careerplanning.about.com/od/occupations/a/career_briefs.htm
KidInfo Career Information Website
http://www.kidinfo.com/careers/careers.html
What do you like?- Exploring Career Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/k12/index.htm
nextSTEP Career Profiles
http://www.nextstepmagazine.com/nextstep/career-profiles.aspx
First Gov for Kids- Careers
http://www.kids.gov/6_8/6_8_careers.shtml
My Cool Job
Career Information for Teenagers
http://www.bygpub.com/books/tg2rw/careers.htm
Career Magazine
Careers and Colleges
http://www.careersandcolleges.com
The Education Portal
LearningExpress Library- Job & Career Success (INFOhio Resource)
http://www.infohio.org Access this source through INFOhio, and select LearningExpress Library. A username and password are necessary from home.
Career Interest Surveys and Assessments
Ohio Career Information System (OCIS) (A username and password are necessary)
Several different surveys/assessments are available (Occupation Match, Kuder Career Search, etc.), including the O*NET Interest Profiler. The O*NET Interest Profiler helps people learn more about their interests and how these interests relate to careers. This Interest Profiler is a self-assessment tool that helps users discover the type of work activities and occupations that they would like. Users identify and learn about broad interest areas most relevant to themselves. Then, they can use their interest results to explore occupations in OCIS. The Interest Profiler measures the six Holland personality/work environment types, then OCIS relates these to associated occupations.
Student Edge (A code to activate your account is necessary)
Mapping Your Future's CareerShip- Match My Career
http://mappingyourfuture.org/planyourcareer/careership/index.cfm
Career Finder Quiz- Channel One
http://www.channelone.com/life/school/2001/12/27/career_quiz/
College Compass
http://www.edonline.com/collegecompass/
Keirsey Temperament- Survey
Kuder Online Career Portfolio
My future- Career Toolbox
http://myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html
America's Career InfoNet
http://www.acinet.org/explore/View.aspx
Career Path.com