How to Choose the Best Career for You
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Career Planning Activities / Career Training / National
Career Day Events / Summer Opportunities / Job Hunting / Military
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| Planning
Activities |
Bridges
Web Site - Use the above address, SEE THE MEDIA CENTER
FOR THE PASSWORD - Bridges is designed to take your interests
and in turn generate possible careers that fit your personally.
Be sure to check out: Bridges-designed
career information for the state of Florida.
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Facts.org - SIGI PLUS helps individuals assess their work related values,
interests, and skills and search for related occupations and
college majors. SIGI PLUS provides students and adults with
a realistic view of the best educational and career options
for their future success.
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Planning
a Career - Four years…that’s all you’ve got to get it
done. Here’s the guidance to get you where you want to go.
Investigate career goals. Locate the right school. Meet admissions
requirements.
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O*Net - Select occupations to explore, search for occupations that
use your skills, find other careers related to the career
you select, etc.
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The
Career Key - You can take a professional-quality career
interest test. Tests of similar quality on the Internet cost
you from eight to 80 dollars. There are also a variety of
self-help modules designed to help you. They are based on
the latest research and best practices recommended by experts
in field.
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Occupational
Outlook Handbook - The Occupational Outlook Handbook is
a nationally recognized 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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Bureau of
Labor Statistics – Find national statistics on careers.
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Construction
Career - A career without limits and an industry without
boundaries! Learn more about the field and what scholarships
are available!
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The
US College Search - Lists over 9,000 four-year universities,
two-year colleges, junior colleges, vocational schools, job
training programs and technical certification programs in
the United States that are searchable by state, city, degree,
name, or zip code.
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Career
Explorer - Helps individuals to research different career
options, shows what skills and training are required to pursue
their chosen career, and provides the opportunity to directly
contact schools that offer these career training programs.
One of the most popular areas of this website is the Aptitude
Test page where people can enter their likes and dislikes
and find out what career choice may be best suited for them.
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Key
Colleges – This website helps prepare students and
parents for the college years. There are interesting articles
from test preparation to dormitory life. This website is based
on Key Magazine which is publish twice yearly and distributed
to high school guidance counselors nationwide.
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Vocational
Schools Guide - Large database of vocational schools in
the United States, searchable by zip code, state, and training
program.
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What
Can I Do with this Major? - Finally, a convenient web
site that helps you connect majors with careers.
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Not interested in going to college for four years but would
still like to train for a great career? Community colleges
and technical schools offer training in specified fields from
medical assisting to business management. There are programs
that take a few months to a couple of years. You can earn
a certificate in a field or spend a little longer in school
and earn a degree.
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Community
Colleges: A link to all of the community colleges in the
country. Facts.org has a link of all community colleges in Florida. Valencia
Community College and Seminole
Community College are local.
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Orange
County Public School technical centers - There are many
private technical schools that offer great training. Unfortunately
they offer the training at a hefty price. Many of the same
programs are offered through workforce
education where you can get a great education for a TINY
fraction of the cost! Check out your options.
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Trade
School.org - A resource for students and professionals
looking for a career-oriented education. The web site assembles
a large network of fully-accredited colleges and universities
specializing in training individuals for careers in design,
technology, business, culinary arts, automotive and photography.
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RWM Vocational
School database - RWM provides a database of Private Post
secondary Vocational Schools in all 50 states. It is organized
first by State,
then by training occupation.
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JobCorps.org - Job Corps is the nation's largest and most comprehensive
residential, education and job training program for at-risk
youth, ages 16 through 24.
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| National
Career Day Events |
Job Shadow
Day - Job shadowing is an academically motivating activity
designed to give kids an up-close look at the world of work
and to answer the question, “Why do I have to learn
this?” Beginning with a nationwide kickoff on February
1, 2002, and continuing throughout the school year, students
across America “shadow” workplace mentors as they
go through a normal day on the job.
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Take
Our Daughters to Work Day – AND SONS!! Take Our
Daughters & Sons To Work Day was created to initiate
a national discussion about the competing challenges of work
and family.
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| Summer
Opportunities |
Outward
Bound Program - Through its 5 wilderness
schools, 2 urban
centers, OB
Professional for corporate groups, and new whole-school
learning model, Expeditionary
Learning, Outward Bound programs emphasize personal growth
through experience and challenge. In all programs and course
settings, students develop self-reliance, responsibility,
teamwork, confidence, compassion, and environmental and community
stewardship.
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The Student
Conservation Association - The Student Conservation Association
(SCA) is America’s largest and oldest provider of national
and community conservation service opportunities, outdoor
education and career training for youth. SCA volunteers and
interns annually perform more than one million hours of conservation
service in national parks, forests, refuges, and urban areas
in all 50 states.
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Summer
Opportunities - More than 1,600 organizations - from traditional
camps and tour groups to private schools and colleges - offer
summer programs for virtually every interest. To quickly access
a specific program’s site in Petersons.com,
where you will find basic information about the program, take
the alphabetical
or geographical
pathway.
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| Job Hunting |
Job
Hunter’s Bible – This site is designed as
a supplement to the book, The 2007 edition of What Color Is Your Parachute?; A Practical
Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.
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America’s
Job Bank - America’s Job Bank gives you the tools
you need to find the best people for the job, fast. And the
best part of all, it’s completely free.
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Resumania - A resume tutor will teach you a lot about how to write a
resume.
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Career
Resource Center - Jobs, employment, job search and career
resource directory organized by topic and region. A free and
comprehensive career research and job-hunting site, that also
includes expert job advice, career articles, and the best
career sites on the Web. Careers.Org has nearly 4000 links organized by topic.
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The Monster
Board - Find the job you’re looking for from the Monster Network.
Search over 1,000,000 job postings now.
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| Military |
| Military
Career Guide Online - In today’s world, there are
hundreds of occupations from which to choose, so it’s
important to spend some time looking into your options. The
U. S. Military is one option everyone should know about. |
| ROTC
Programs - The ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps)
Programs offered by the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and
the Marine Corps train qualified young men and women to become
officers in those services upon graduation from college. ROTC
is available in over 1,000 colleges and universities throughout
the U. S., both those that host ROTC units or detachment and
those with cross-enrollment agreements with them. |
| Military
Academies – Find answers to frequently asked questions
about the prestigious military institutions associated with
the US government. |
United
States Air Force Academy | United
States Merchant Marine Academy | United
States Military Academy
United
States Naval Academy | United
States Coast Guard Academy |
