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. Download How to Use CIS to Plan Your
Future below.
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.
ASVAB: Career Exploration Program
This program is designed to help students learn more about themselves and the
world of work, identify and explore potentially satisfying occupations, and
develop an effective strategy to realize their goals.
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.
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!
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.
Discover
Research-based assessments of career-relevant
interests, abilities, and job values help individuals consider career options
that are a good match for them. ACT's World-of-Work
Map organizes occupations into six clusters, parallel to Holland's Hexagon,
to help users focus on preparing for career options that fit them best.
DISCOVER's comprehensive, developmental guidance process
helps users identify their strengths and needs, make good career decisions, and
build a plan based on their personal profiles.
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 Workforce
Information: One Source
The Illinois Department of Employment Security is the most reliable source
for information about the state's labor market. Visit all of our resources as
you look for a job, explore occupations, seek to expand your company or plan for
your community's future.
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.
Self-Directed Search by Dr.
John L. Holland
Whether you are looking for a college major, beginning a job search, or
thinking about a career change, the SDS will provide valuable career
information. For information about the major career groups, click on the images
at the bottom of your screen.
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.
