Career Services

Links to Explore Occupations and Learn about Careers:

• Occupational Outlook Handbook - Learn about hundreds of different types of jobs including the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions. Use the “A-Z Index” in the shaded paragraph to go directly to an alphabetical index of occupations.

• O*Net Occupations

• Becomeopedia.com - How To Become Any Career - Find information about how to become hundreds of careers including education requirements, job descriptions, salary info, and future career paths.

• Occupation Profiles by Vault

• The Career Project .org

• Glassdoor.com - gives you an inside look at company salaries, reviews and interview questions for more than 100,000 companies.

• Career Guide to Industries

• Career Resource Library

• Job Hunters Bible

• Inside Jobs - thousands of job profiles and articles to help people discover and pursue a career that excites them.
  
  
• Business Careers Info - For anyone looking for a general understanding about the various business careers, this article provides an overview of accounting/finance, management, and marketing. Anyone trying to assess the different major paths of business people will find the following information useful.

• U.S. News & World Report - 50 Best Careers in 2011

• NACE Salary Survey

Informational Interviews:

Informational Interviews are a great way to learn what you could never learn online.  Talk to someone in a field that interests you...it'll help with your networking too!

Hands-On Exploration:

Learning about careers shouldn't stop at online research.  Now that you've window-shopped, it's time to try some things on.  Dip into a career field to get the best feel for how much you like it by doing some hands-on exploration such as internships, co-ops, volunteer opportunities, and part-time jobs.

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