Careers and College Majors
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
- Steven Wright
Visit the links on this page for Information on college majors and careers -
Google's University Search enables you to narrow your search to a specific school website. Try it for things like admissions, academic, and tuition information. To get into your target college, just click the name, then enter your search term.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (click here) has up-to-date information on hundreds of careers.
The Career Zone (click here) is a career interest inventory that can be taken online for free at any time.
"What can I do with a major in . . . ?" (click here) is a great resource for finding out about the careers that you can enter with specific college majors.
The World of Work Map (click here). Use the interactive features of the The World of Work Map website to explore careers in 6 career clusters and 26 career areas.
A Quick Career Interest Inventory. This quick interest inventory is called "The Mars Colonization Project." click here. It is free and only available on this web site.
Our featured site. Visit our featured site - www.gem-nursing.org (click here) to explore the world of career opportunities in nursing. The field of nuring contains a wide variety of opportunites for women and men.
If you took the PLAN test and want to further explore your results on the Career Interest Inventory that was part of the PLAN, click here.
Career Guide. To learn about responsibilities, working conditions, pay rates, and employment outlook for hundreds of careers click here.
Links to web sites dedicated to careers in dozens of different areas, click here.
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Online career information isfirst arranged into broad categories such as: Arts, Design, Entertaninment, Sports, and Media Occupations; Business and Financial Operations Occupations, etc. Then you can link to websites with information on more specific careers.
The Fairfax County Virginia Public Schools have developed links to websites dealing with careers from accounting to zoology.
Learn more, earn more. Check out these statistics on salary, unemployment, and level of education (click here).
Career Exploration Worksheets- print out these Career Exploration Worksheets to help you keep track of what you learn about your interests (pages 1 and 2), abilities (page 3), values (page 4), and careers to further explore (page 5). Print them out and write down thoughts and ideas as you engage in various career exploration activities -
The Occupational Outlook Handbook Online
The Occupational Outlook Handbook Online (click here) has up-to-date information on hundreds of careers. Information on each job includes -
Nature of the Work | Working Conditions | Employment | Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement | Job Outlook | Earnings | Related Occupations | Sources of Additional Information
This site, maintained by UNC Wilmington, is a great resource for finding out about the careers that you can enter with specific college majors.
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The Massachusetts Division of Career Services (DCS) offers the Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS) free, on-line to Massachusetts residents. MassCIS is designed to provide occupational and educational information to help people make better-informed career and educational choices.
Major Resource Kits, on the University of Delaware web site, link academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of Career Resource Center materials available to students in a particular major.
PDF versions of U. Texas/Austin Career Center handouts list specific job titles relating to majors..
From the Northern Illinois University web site, click on these programs for a list of sample jobs and employers, and occupational and job search links.
From the Loyola University of Chicago, a convenient web site that helps you connect majors with careers. For each major that interests you, choose "Information" to find an outline of common career areas, typical employers, and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities. Choose "Links" to find a list of websites that provide information about listed majors and related careers.
THE WORLD OF WORK MAP
Newton North students who want to take a career interest invertory have a few different options available. The PLAN test, which can be taken in October of sophomore year, contains the UNIACT interest inventory. Pencil and paper versions of the Career Decision Making System (CDM) and the Self-Directed Search are available in the Career Center and can be taken on your own at any time. You may take more than one of these at different times during your high schools years.
Whichever interest inventory you take you can use the results of the inventory to further explore careers opportunities using The World of Work Map click here.
Use the interactive features of The World of Work Map website to explore careers in 6 career clusters and 26 career areas. For more information about these career inventories or The World of Work Map, please see your counselor or the counselors in the Career Center (Room 330).
For more information on the World of Work Map, interest inventories and definitions of the career clusters, click here.
Why do we use interest inventories and not ability or "aptitude" tests? When thinking about careers, think about what you like to do, not just what you're good at. Abilities can be developed through education, training, and other experiences. If you are interested in something you can become good at it. "Polished efforts can become abilities."
After you have explored your interest areas, it is helpful to evaluate your abilities to see how they match with the abilities needed in careers of interest to you. Then you can assess types of education, training, and experiences you need to enter these careers. Research has shown that we are just as good at self-reporting our abilities as tests are at telling us what we are good at.
Work values are qualities of a job that one feels are important and desirable, they are the qualities that create career satisfaction for the individual. It is also helpful to evaluate your work values to see how well the careers of interest to you will satisfy these work values.
This quick career interest inventory is called "The Mars Colonization Project." click here. It is free and only available on this web site.
Check out our Featured Career Web Site - www.gem-nursing.org (click here). The online way for young people (male and female) to explore the world of career opportunities in nursing.
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