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Career Exploration

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CareerZone
Here’s a great resource for helping students to relate what’s important to them to what kind of career they might want.
http://www.cacareerzone.org/about
Student Career Info
Student Career Info is a program that features live Q&A video discussions and a digital library of topics that provide information and insight on careers and life challenges for students.
http://www.studentcareerinfo.com/
index.shtml
America’s Promise Alliance
This is an online guide on how to put together a successful career exploration effort.
http://www.americaspromise.org/Resources/CareerExplorationToolkit.aspx
My College QuickStart™
Personalized feedback, practice and college planning based on your PSAT/NMSQT results.
https://quickstart.collegeboard.org/posweb/login.jsp
O*NET Resource Center
A premiere source of occupational information. Use this site to download the O*NET database, career exploration tools, job analysis questionnaires, employer guides, and technical reports.
http://www.onetcenter.org/

Careers.Org
Use Careers.Org to investigate more than 150,000 pages about online degrees and universities, jobs and occupations, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
http://www.careers.org/
U.S. Department of State
Career resources for working within the U.S. Department of State
http://careers.state.gov/resources/
JobHuntOrg
JobHuntOrg, The free award-winning employment portal and one of the web's oldest and most trusted sources of job search resources and advice.
http://www.job-hunt.org/
The Career Project
This is a free and interactive career profile database. Research thousands of real careers through the eyes of the people who work them and get help with interviews, applications and resumes.
http://www.thecareerproject.org/Career-Resources