America's Career Info Net

Career Information

America's Career Info Net

Find out about the general job market, wages and trends, skills and abilities required from specific occupations, and career information unique for your state.

Bridges
Explore More Options. Open the door to more careers and education options than ever before. Choices Explorer gives students access to over 900 career profiles, 330 post-secondary programs and 200 career videos and much more. Engaging Career Exploration. Students can explore careers in lots of intuitive ways -- it’s as simple as choosing a favorite school subject, or answering questions in the Career Finder or Major Finder quiz. Please contact me for login information.

Career Cruising

Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, you've come to the right place! See me for login information.

Career Info Net
In line with the Department of Labor’s vision for America's Labor Market Information System, CareerOneStop, is a collection of electronic tools, operating as a federal-state partnership, and funded by grants to states. Each tool offers a unique solution to the overwhelming demands of today’s labor market from the perspective of the job seeker, the employer, and the public workforce community.

Career Key
The Career Key is a free service to help you with career choices, career changes, and career planning, job search, and choosing a college major or training program. More than 5,000 people visit daily for professional career guidance.

Career Voyages
This web site is the result of a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to provide information on high growth, high demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.

Career Zone
CareerZone is a free, career exploration and planning system designed especially for New York State students. The CareerZone website brings together multiple sources of career and labor market information to make career exploration and planning for the future a little easier. The CareerZone system is a product of the New York State Department of Labor and is currently hosted by AT&T.

Careers
Since 1995, a job search, career evaluation, career education, small office, resource center. Over 8,000 links to jobs, job search preparation, career education, personal business and more, sorted by topic and region, onto more than 1000 pages.

The College Board
The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 4,700 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves over three and a half million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT, the PSAT/NMSQT® and the Advanced Placement Program®(AP). The College Board is committed to the principles of excellence and equity, and that commitment is embodied in all of its programs, services, activities, and concerns.

College View
Welcome to the CollegeView.com Career Center. Here at the Center, you will find all the information and help you need to jumpstart your career.

Community Learning Network: Curricular Resources in Career Studies
Below are the CLN "Theme Pages" which focus on specific topics within Careers Studies. CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme.

FFA: Career Explorer
Welcome to the Ag Career Explorer. Here, you can search for a profession that interests you through a searchable database of jobs in the ever-expanding world of Agriculture. There are multiple ways for you to search – by career cluster, industry and more.

Illinois Career Resource Network

Career Information System
CIS (the Career Information System) tells you about wages, education requirements and job duties for nearly 500 occupations. Students can use Illinois Schools and Financial Aid Sort. Job seekers will find help with resumes in Job Search and My Portfolio. Use Employer Locator (under Related Links) for listings of potential employers in your area.

Career Click
Career Click shows occupations by title, education level and wages. Each has a list of skills that you can use in your resume. See current and projected employment levels for your county. Some occupations have one-minute videos showing people on the job: choose English, Spanish or open-captioned.

Countdown
Countdown is an easy way for younger students to learn how your interests fit with nearly 300 occupations. Find out which high school classes you need for each and how many job openings are expected.

KidsOnLine: Streaming Futures
Streaming Futures is a free, web-based career program dedicated to helping teens choose the right career path by allowing them to watch internet-based video interviews with career professionals from all different careers.

New Jersey School Counselor Association: College and Career Quest
This WebQuest will take you through a process of exploring careers and colleges using the Web. It is designed to develop skills required in researching potential majors and colleges. This is only the beginning of your exploration. You will need to do much more extensive investigation before you are ready to make decisions.

O*NET OnLine
O*NET, the Occupational Information Network, is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. As the replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), O*NET will be the nation's primary source of occupational information. O*NET is being developed as a timely, easy-to-use resource that supports public and private sector efforts to identify and develop the skills of the American workforce. It provides a common language for defining and describing occupations. Its flexible design also captures rapidly changing job requirements. In addition, O*NET moves occupational information into the technological age.

School Finder: Career Search
SchoolFinder.com is published by EDge Interactive. EDge is a new media company with almost seven years experience developing and producing interactive Web sites. We are a group of young professionals committed to making effective, informative and innovative products that help make people's lives better. In addition to helping students find the right schools, EDge helps schools develop and deploy their student recruitment programs. Working throughout Canada and the United States, services include e-Tours™, Web site development, Interactive ViewBooks™, and enrolment management tools. EDge's design, programming and marketing team is located in Toronto.

Students
Students.gov has a mission -- to give college students, college-bound students, and their families easy access to the information and services they need from the U.S. Government and selected non-government web sites. How do we know what students want? We ask! We've built the site around feedback and requests from the people who us it. On Students.gov, government services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On your time. From across your campus or around the world. Students.gov brings together all kinds of information and services that students and their families have told us they need. You can come to one place to find what you want, instead of searching the entire web. We've done the legwork, so you save time and have more success finding what you need.

US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a Federal government agency and everything that we publish, both in hard copy and electronically, is in the public domain, except for previously copyrighted photographs and illustrations. You are free to use our public domain material without specific permission, although we do ask that you cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the source.

Work 4 Women
Work4Women offers links to web sites, video clips, games and chats designed to help young women explore and prepare for exciting careers that offer high-wages and reflect their interests.

Adapted with permission from Ryan Starr at www.students.depaul.edu/~rstarr7