PPWFC Career Exploration

The Career Key

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Resources on this page cover career and salary information. The career guides link to information on occupations and career paths. Reports, guides, and surveys can be used to see how an occupation or industry is doing.

Career Assessment

Birkman Method Career Style Summary

This site provides access to the Brickman questionnaire which may help guide you to careers that would be of the most interest to you. Suggested careers are provided with your finished questionnaire results.

Career Interests Game

This game is designed to help you match your interests and skills with similar careers. It can help you begin thinking about how your personality will fit in with specific work environments and careers.

Career Key, Lawrence K. Jones

You can take this test to help narrow down the careers that might suit you. Suggested occupations based on your responses are listed with your test results.

Keirsey Site

The Keirsey site offers both a brief character and temperament sorter along with a description of the results.

 

Beatrice's Web Guide: Careers

This site provides annotated links to sites offering career related information for women. Subject categories include: job vacancies, resume services, and salary information.

Best Jobs U.S.A.: Career Guide, Employment Review Magazine

This site links to Employment Review's annual list of the best places to live and work in the United States. Additional links on the site include: employment news, salary surveys, and weekly updated employment listings.

Career Center on the Web, University of California, Berkeley

A resource center that provides job search tools, links to sites that provide information about various careers, and links to colleges and universities.

Career Find-O-Rama, Princeton Review

This site is a searchable database of career information. Each occupation includes career profiles, major employers, and the nature of the job. Also provided is information about cover letters, interviews, and resumes.

Career Resource Homepage, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute, Jasmit Singh Kochhar

This site has many links to other career and job resources on the Internet.

Career Resource Library, New York State Department of Labor

Provides links to materials about job search guides, occupational outlook and trends for New York State and its regions, job seeking in selected industries, wage data, and careers for youth. It also provides links to state training schools, occupational training programs, and other employment-related directories.

Career Services Online, College of William and Mary, Office of Career Services

A collection of links to guides and resources to help make a career choice, including links to interactive online surveys for evaluating interests and personality type, job guides, and relocation resources.

Center on Education and Work: Other Internet Resources, University of Wisconsin, Madison

A source of links to education and general related sites.

Counseling Directory

This site provides links to career and job resource information.

Exploring Occupations: Getting You Started on Your Career Path, University of Manitoba, Counselling Service

A source of information about several career fields, including links to other sites that provide career related information.

Find Your Career, U.S. News Online

A searchable database that provides salary ranges for career fields and professions, as well as a wide range of career and education information.

Infoseek Careers

A source of career and job information searchable by topic.

iVillage.com Career

A source of career exploration assistance, reviews of online job resources, advice on resume writing, and information about self-employment and entrepreneurship.

JobSmart, California Job Search Guide

The site provides access to articles on career information and the California job market. Also included is information on salary negotiation and salary surveys.

JobWeb, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

A source of information on career planning and employment for the college educated work force. This site also features Catapult which offers resources that professionals might find useful in making career choices.

Lycos Careers, Lycos.com

A source of career related information including sites that provide career advice and services, sites with job listings in various job categories, and a list of Internet career sites that Lycos has rated.

Major Resource Kits, University of Delaware, Career Services Center

A collection that organizes career information by academic major. Each Major Resource Kit includes information about jobs relating to an academic major, brief job descriptions, major employers in the field, and materials for conducting a job search.

Majors Booklets, State University of New York, Oswego

This site organizes career information by academic major and links to career resource sites.

Microsoft Skills 2000

This site, hosted by Microsoft, provides information relating to careers in information technology. Note: this site focuses on Microsoft certified training.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics

A searchable guide that provides data on more than two hundred occupations. Information on each occupation includes: earning potential, education, training requirements, and employment outlook.

What Can I do with a Major in ...?, Washington University, Career Center

A list of academic majors which link to information on occupations related to that academic major.

What Color Is Your Parachute: The Net Guide, Richard Bolles

This site is based on a chapter from the book, What Color is Your Parachute?. The site provides commentary and links for job searching and career changing.

 

2000 Graduate School Rankings, U.S. News Online

A list of careers and a brief description of the potential employment growth for each occupation listed.

CorpTech Demographic Analysis

A compilation of industry specific demographic and economic data, including hiring trends. Information is provided on national, regional, and state levels.

Employment Directory Guide to North American Markets, Bernard Hoads Advertising

A source of demographic information and an employment analysis for the top fifty U.S. job markets and the top ten markets in Canada.

Tap Into Current Trends, Drake Beam Morin

A presentation of statistical data on the global job market, a 1997 U.S. Career Transition study, and fast facts.

United States Census Bureau

A source of information about demographic and economic surveys.

U.S. Global Trade Outlook, 1995-2000, United States Department of Commerce

A periodic report formerly called U.S. Industrial Outlook. It has tables showing recent economic trends for nearly two hundred industries and product groups.

1998 Computer Industry Salary Survey, Data Masters

Salary information for the computer industry, listed by geographic region.

Compensation and Benefits Reports, Abbott, Langer and Associates

A source of salary information for a variety of job fields. After selecting a job field, click on Free Summary Data.

JobSmart -- Salary Information, California Job Search Guide

A collection of links to salary and cost of living data.

Occupational Employment Statistics, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics

A page that provides an entry point to voluminous data about national, regional, state, and local economies, including salary and compensation information.

Oil Link Salary Survey

This site the results of the Oil Link 1998 Salary Survey. Salary information is broken by occupation.

Salary Calculator, HomeFair

A calculator which allows you to compare the cost of living in hundreds of U.S. and international cities.

Salary Surveys, ComputerJobs.com

A source of salary information for the technology industry.

Salary Surveys by Profession, RecruitmentExtra

Provides salary survey resources for a variety of occupational areas.

WageWeb, Human Resources Programs Development and Improvement.  This site is an online salary service which provides information on over 150 benchmark positions. Salary information is broken down by category.