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Career Exploration & Research
Resources to help students identify a career, select a major, identify colleges and universities, and find financial assistance.
Materials to help with job preparation, career advancement, career changes, and re-entry into the workforce. Includes SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT test prep, and other certification, licensing, and aptitude tests. Note: You need to create a free user account.
The qualities the US State Department seeks in Foreign Service Officers, including composure, cultural adaptability, initiative and leadership, and more.
United States Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals.
Provides links and information about careers, cities and towns, and colleges, universities, and trade schools. The career directory presents information on hundreds of employment categories and thousands of schools, to help people find and pursue careers of interest to them.
This site allows visitors to research federal agencies and government careers as well as provide practical tips for completing your application. This site does not post job announcements or accept applications.
A primary source of occupational information. Provides a database that is the basis for Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers. Identifies bright outlook occupations and green occupations.
Describes nature of each occupation's work, number of people employed in the US, training and other qualifications, job outlook, earnings, and sources of additional information. Provided by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Provided through Harvard Divinity School's Career Services, this discernment guide can be used by individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Each article offers detailed career information, sidebars, and other user-friendly features, including a new Career Ladder, which shows common career paths for each profession, and new sections, such as Unions and Associations and Tips for Entry.
26 Questions To Help You Know Yourself Better
Job Crafting
Resources about job crafting and focusing one's job to one's calling:
You 2.0: How to Build a Better Brain - recording and transcript of episode of The Hidden Brain that originally aired July 31, 2017. Series host Shankar Vedantam interviewed Amy Wrzesniewski, professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, who studies work and something that she calls job crafting. Job crafting can help you make the job that you have right now more meaningful and more satisfying.
Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 16th Edition. by
