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This America's Career Toolkit site contains occupational information that will assist you in your employment search and increase your overall understanding of the job market. You can find information about employment outlook, earnings, and training for a specific occupation or find demographic information for a state. You can use the Resources option to access our Career Resource Library where you can explore your career interests, assess your skills, or find other relevant career exploration sites.
This America's Career ToolKit site provides links to education, training, and certification programs available nationwide. It caters to education and training providers, employers, and work force development practitioners. A guided search feature helps answer questions such as: Which schools offer degree programs in my field? What training do employer prefer for my field? How can I find available skills training? Users can also explore skills transferable to various occupations and relate specific skills to occupations, courses, and programs.
Tips on career development from the University of Waterloo.
The Berkeley Library provides links for checking out occupations and making career choices.
This University of Idaho career exploration site contains information for students, teachers, and parents, about career choices, student learning plans, and related high school courses. It contains an inventory to assess interests and help focus career exploration. It focuses on six career pathways: Arts & Communications; Business & Management; Health Services; Natural Resources; Human Resources; Industrial & Engineering; student learning plans and related high school courses.
The Federal Trade Commission offers advice on choosing a vocational school by investigating the claims of a vocational school, checking out the school's faculty and classroom size, finding out about accreditation and consumer complaints, and questions to ask about financial policies, including refunds.
Exploring Options for Life After High School
My Future is a Web site that strives to help you "jumpstart your life." It offers career advice: choosing a career path, building a resume, creating a cover letter, and succeeding in job interviews, military opportunities, internships, volunteer opportunities, apprenticeships, and technical and vocational schools). It also tests your money management skills, find out how to get money for college, and get tips on buying a used car.
Motiv8: Making a Smooth Transition from School to Work
For Canadian youth, on setting goals and taking action to make your goals and dreams come true, being creative and using innovation, developing your skills and abilities, making tough choices and effective decisions, learning new knowledge throughout your lifetime and being flexible as you adapt to change and face life's challenges. Find the motives to succeed in your life. Get motiv8ed and go for it! Access info on finding, keeping and creating work and just generally planning a stellar career. Check out the world of lifelong learning with a look at schools, programs and their students.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics now has pages designed for kids to teach them about occupational choices. If you have any junior highs to visit, this is a good site to tell them about. It's written at a grade school level. Its major topics are: Jobs for Kids who Like...PE/Outdoors ..Social Studies..Music/Arts..Reading..Science.
Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides occupational employment and wage information for the United States and each of the states.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook for 2000-01 provides information on wages, training, conditions of work, and skills required for 500 occupations plus general occupational trends.
Vanderbilt Career Internet Resources
Vanderbilt University's well-organized categories covering career information, including job types, career exploration, and job searches.
Youth Resource Network of Canada
The Youth Resource Network gives youth the tools they need for self-assessment, career planning, information about jobs, job search techniques, and making decisions about training and education.