Focus Areas

9th - Understand Self, Careers, and Making Decisions 10th - Explore Careers within Chosen Cluster 11th - Skill Development and Training within Chosen Cluster 12th - Enhance Specialized Skills Through Focused Work -Based Activities and Finalize Post-Secondary Plans

 

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Ask An Expert
Web site that allows users to email career-related questions to experts in any given field.

Educator's Reference Desk
In depth site for teachers containing career lesson plans. The site also contains excellent business, technology, and other career and technical subject area resources and lessons.

Ask the Employer
Helpful question and answer guide for prospective employees.

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library
Web based activities and web based projects as well as unit and lesson plans can be accessed for Business, Technology, and other Career and Technical Education areas. This is an excellent site to explore for a variety of career awareness activities.

Career Advisor
The career advisor searches for career resources in careers. The site lists resources for hundreds of specific occupations covering 85% of all jobs.

Career and College Planning Web Resources
Vocational Information Center - career and college planning resources.

Career Builder
Easy to use site for career and job information containing current news features, getting hired, and working life.

Career Consulting Corner
Career and job advise, from resume writing to interview skills.

Career Counseling
Web site with career resources, including resume assistance.

Career Currents
Student resource center for daily career information including daily career profiles, career articles, current employment, and human resources headlines.

Career Development Activities and Vocational Lesson Plans
Vocational Information Center - career activities and vocational lesson plans.

Career Development Library
The international career development library is a free, online collection of full-text career development resources for counselors, educators, and workforce development personnel.

Career Development Manual
University of Waterloo's extensive career planning manual. Sections include self-assessments, occupational research, decision making, employment contacts, work and career/life planning. Excellent printable resources!

Career Games Job Park
Interactive games designed to help students discover career opportunities.

Career Information System
This portfolio is a tool for students to help them think through and plan for their future education and careers. By performing a series of tasks with the online tools found on this web site, teachers can help coach students to explore personal interests, research occupations, interview people in career interest areas, learn what items to keep in a career portfolio, and write a resume. 

Career Journal
Comprehensive site from the Wall Street Journal containing salary and hiring information, career columnists, job-hunting advise, and information on managing a career.

Career Lab
Provides career and job seeking advice.

Career Magazine
A career magazine containing feature of the week, today's hot topics, featured columns, tools, and other career related links.

Career Related Student Worksheet
Vocational Information Center - student career printable worksheets

Careers Online
This site puts information about hundreds of careers at your fingertips. The Careers Online Careers Show features connections to a vast collection of career related information to assist students in career decision making. 

Career Perfect
Comprehensive site offering advice and resources on career planning, professional resumes, job search, interviewing and more!.

Career Profiles
Search over 1000 career profiles from A - Z.

Career Webquest "It's My Life"
This site offers students the ability to utilize tools in career exploration, budgeting and net worth. It allows students that have not yet considered career options the forum to research possible careers.

College Board
The College Board educational web site contains extensive college and career resource information.

College Career Life Planning
Free resources and tools for education, career, and life planning to help students make informed choices about their futures.

College Express
CollegeXpress offers a unique combination of time-saving interactive tools to help students and parents find a college, learn about financial aid, compare student loans, and research thousands of scholarship opportunities.

College View Career Center
Web site is designed to help students get their careers on track and to provide them with tools to start planning the future. The site includes a wealth of information on resume writing, interviewing skills, best-paying and fastest-growing fields and careers.

Department of Labor - Youth and Labor
Department of Labor website provides resources for student workers including information on topics such as age requirements and job safety. 

Discovery School
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of web sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. The site contains career lesson plans and extensive lesson plans for all subject areas.

Education World
An excellent educational site for all subject area teachers, including careers and technology. The site includes the following information: current educational issues, subject centers, educational resource and feature areas, lesson planning assistance, and teacher-created lesson plans.

Ehow
Web site of "HOW TOs". The Careers/Education section contains 4 major categories for information on career lesson planning.

Engineer Girl
Students can research and learn about engineering careers from women in the field.

Florida NEXT
Student centered magazine featuring articles and information on the "future after high school". This site includes section on: Life Stylin' - celebs and entertainment; Workin' It - jobs and careers; Your 2 Cents - cash flow; Personal Space - good health and abits; Hall Pass - high school life; In The Bleachers - sports and more; In Uniform - military; Higher Ed. - school choices and finacial aid/scholarships.

Get Access Career Game
This game is designed to help students gain an understanding of career +interests and the planning process.

High School Hub
This academic portal for high-school students offers study guides on numerous subjects, a college-prep quiz, a reference collection, and great resources for college choice and careers.

IRS
Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service web site that contains current employee/taxpayer issues and other career related links.

Job Profiles
Experienced workers share the rewards and stressful parts of their jobs, basic skills required, challenges of the future and advice on entering the field. Also includes extensive job descriptions.

Job Search Manual
The comprehensive job search manual includes sections on developing a plan of action, know thy self, the successful resume, job search strategies, telephone techniques, information interviews, the job interview, appendices of sample documents, and worksheets. 

Job Web
Extremely complete collection of career information including a job search, career choices, on-line periodicals, resume writing, and interviewing tips.

Kaplan
A network of educational and career services for individuals, schools, and businesses.

Mapping Your Future
Web site provides information about career planning, career opportunities, higher education, and paying for school.

Monster Career Center
Monster.com offers a career center containing information on industries and professions, job tips of the week, career levels, and other useful career resources.

My Future
Web site provided as a public service by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense. This site contains sections on military careers, financial planning for college and life, post-high school work-based opportunities, and a career tool box.

NASA Kids
Students learn about astronauts and other pioneers as well as other aerospace careers.

National Career Clusters
The 16 national career clusters and printable resources for each.

Next Steps
Extensive employment and career-related information, including career planning, education and training, cover letters and resumes, teacher's guides and online career counseling.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Office of Employment Projection's web site containing the Occupational Outlook Handbook; Career Guide to Industries; Occupation Outlook Quarterly; tomorrow's jobs overview; and how industries differ plus much more.

PacificNet
Teacher-created list of educational resources including career planning and other subject area links.

PBS - In The Mix Careers
This PBS site zeroes in on several hot jobs to show students that combining interests with careers is a very real opportunity.

Petersons
Peterson's career education and guidance channel that contains a career and college association search by major.

Princeton Review
Information on finding and keeping a job, cover letters, interviewing techniques, resume writing and employment trends. Also has a search engine for finding information on specific careers.

Salary
Web site that provides a salary wizard, salary news, salary advise, salary talk, and career resources. Enter an occupation and region to find out the salary range for that career.

School Finder
Career section contains a career search and profiles by career or industry.

Searching for China: A Full Web Quest
Join a team and take on the role of foreign investor, human rights worker, museum curator, anthropologist, state senator or religious leader in "Searching for China". Students will work together to create a special report for the American people as they experience a career role and learn more about this complex country.

Seeing Beyond High School
Interactive program for teens to help them prepare for the future world of work. Running time is about 14 minutes and students can print a Career Action Plan and Certificate of Completion.

Snagajob
The nation's largest hourly job site listing more than 50,000 part-time and hourly jobs in all industries across the country.

Successlink
New lessons added every day many of which contain scoring guides. There are searchable lesson plans for all subjects areas including career education for all high school grade levels. 

Teachers
This comprehensive site has a databse of K-12 career lesson plans as well as other subject area lesson plans, chatboards, a reference desk, curricula, and columns.

Tech Prep Lessons
Educational site containing interdisciplinary lesson plans for all Tech Prep subject areas.

Teenager's Guide to the Real World
This site contains excerpts from the book The Teenager's Guide to the Real World. The following online chapters pertain to careers and the future: Chapter 0: You Get to Design Your Life; Chapter 1: Money Really Matters; Chapter 5: You Must Have a Job to Live Life; Chapter 6: Education is One Key to a Good Job; Chapter 7: Good Jobs Go to Good Employees; Chapter 8: Suits Send Signals.

Think Quest
A collection of career and subject area web sites.

TV Production
A comprehensive information website on Studio and Field Television Production.

US News - Careers
Web site contains a career guide, interactive tools, and career articles. Also includes articles on colleges and careers.

Workscene Career Guide
Links to career resources on the internet from A - Z.

www.jamminjobs.com
This site is a job board that lists thousands of positions nationwide plus numerous articles and resources for the job seeker.