Block 3 - Required Online Surveys

http://www.tctc.edu/career_survey/index.html

Review: This is good site, however it is basic in comparison to the others.
Not sure which career is right for you? Take this fast, easy survey to find the career clusters that may be a good match for your personality and interests. This isn't a complicated, scientific type survey. It's just meant to be fun and to give you something to think about. The Career Interest Survey was developed by Amanda Blanton, Associate Dean of Collaboration at Tri County Technical College and a Certified Global Career Development Facilitator. This site provides information Career Clusters, with specific information on those careers; description, personal traits, career options and resource links.

http://www.queendom.com/index.htm

Review: Great web site, many different types of test, at different levels – Select three
Do you want to get some direction in your life and learn about what drives you? Do you need some guidance as to which path to take in your career? The Career Style Test is a tool to help you understand what drives and interests you. Queendom is the land of tests … so many of them that the sheer choice of topics will inspire you to take a wonderful journey inside yourself. The site creates an interactive venue for self-exploration with a healthy dose of fun. We offer a full range of professional-quality, scientifically-validated psychological assessments that empower you to grow and reach your real potential through insightful feedback and detailed, custom-tailored analysis. Much like our visitors, Queendom is constantly evolving, adapting and improving to bring you the highest quality, most up-to-date tests reflecting our ever-changing lives.


http://www.livecareer.com/?cobrand=CLEAR

Review: Excellent survey, provides detailed information on career interest. Students will need to register, but their info can be fictitious. They also must say press No or No Thanks through out the survey
This free report is based on your answers to LiveCareer's Career Directions Inventory (CDI). The CDI measures career interests and is one of the most advanced, scientifically-based tests of its kind.
1. Assessment – Overview
2. Interests – What You Like/Dislike
3. Understanding Your Highest Interest Scores
4. Administrative Scores
5. Personality – What Makes You Unique
When it comes to making career and educational decisions, it’s helpful to get a clear picture of who you are and what you want at this stage of your life. That’s why assessment is the starting point of any career planning process.

M y B i o g r a p h y

200 wds. Typed

Activity:
Each student will write their own biography, written in the third person. Information contained in your biography should not only include what you have accomplished (Education, work, family, friends), but also personal items about yourself.

Sample questions to answer:
1) What challenges have you been confronted with in the past years, how have these affected who you are today?
2) What is important to know about you, which affects the way you conduct your life? The positive and negative experiences?
3) How has your significant other impacted your life in a positive or negative manner? What are you doing to change this?
4) How has your family life (Parents, Siblings, etc.) affected who you are today?
5) What do your parents do for living? Has this help you to see the world in a different way?
6) Who is your best friend(s), how have they affected who you are or who you are trying to be?
7) What are your future educational plans after graduation?
8) What is your future career plans? What are you doing today to make this a success?

And any other things you can think about.


Instructor Comments:
This is an especially good activity for the seniors -- as it will assist you in writing
your college essays.

Career Links for Students

Career Links for Students

 America's Career Info Net - http://www.acinet.org/acinet/
 America's Job Bank - http://www.jobbankinfo.org/
 ASVAB Career Exploration Program - http://www.asvabprogram.com/
 Best Jobs USA - http://www.bestjobsusa.com/
 Bureau of Labor Statistics career site for children - http://www.bls.gov/k12/
 Campus Career Center Worldwide - http://www.campuscareercenter.com/
 Career Builder - http://www.careerbuilder.com/
 Career Consulting Corner - http://www.careercc.com/
 Career Center - http://www.resumeedge.com/contentpartners/aol/
 Career Education - http://www.aboutcareereducation.com/
Career Exploration - http://www.acinet.org/acinet/explore/View.aspx
Successfully navigate the CareerOneStop website with information provided in this tool.
 CareerOneStop - http://www.careeronestop.org/
 Career Guide to Industries - http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/home.htm
 Career Happiness and More Job Offers | Résumé to Referral - http://www.resumebycprw.com/
 Career Key - http://www.careerkey.org/
 Career/Life Skills - http://www.career-lifeskills.com/
 Career Magazine - http://www.careermag.com/
 Career Management International - http://www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html
 Career Pathways Toolkit - http://www.communitycollegecentral.org/careerpathways/index.html
 Certification Finder - http://www.acinet.org/acinet/certifications_new/default.aspx
 College Opportunities Online - http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
 CollegeSearch24 - http://www.collegesearch24.com/
 Computer careers - http://tcc.comptia.org/
 Employer Locator - http://www.acinet.org/acinet/employerlocator/employerlocator.asp?nodeid=18
 Eureka - http://www.eureka.org/
Career and Educational Guidance
 Health Resource Partners - http://www.healthresource.org/careers.html
 I Could Be - http://www.icouldbe.org/
 +Jobs California - http://www.california.plusjobs.com/
State-wide Internet job database. No registration required!
 JobBank USA - http://www.jobbankusa.com/
 JobProfiles.org - http://www.jobprofiles.org/
 Job Profiles from Monster.com - http://content.monster.com/jobprofiles/
 Job Resources by Occupation - http://www.acinet.org/acinet/library-redirect.asp?category=3.2
Browse through occupational categories to connect to online resources listing job opportunities for a specific occupation, industry, or professional group.
 Jobtrak Corporation - http://college.monstertrak.com/index.html
 Keirsey Temperament Sorter - http://www.keirsey.com/
 Know Your Type (Myers Briggs) - http://www.knowyourtype.com/
 Life Coach - http://www.myguidewire.com/
www.MyGuidewire.com provides all the tools – know how and personalized assistance You need to succeed in every dimension of Your Life & Career– We help You get it together – keep it together!.
 Livelihood - http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/classroom/chipping/careers.html
Family career tracer from PBS
 MAPP - http://student.assessment.com/StudentArea/default.asp?RefNum=1373
Motivational Appraisal for Personal Potential
 Mapping Your Future - http://www.mapping-your-future.org/
 Monster.com - http://www.monster.com/
 My Future - http://www.myfuture.com/
 Occupational Outlook Handbook - http://www.bls.gov/oco/
 O*NET Computerized Interest Profiler - http://www.onetcenter.org/WIP.html
Use this vocational interest assessment instrument to receive an accurate, reliable profile that: provides valuable self-knowledge about your vocational interests, fosters career awareness, and provides a window to the entire world of work via the 900+ occupations.
 O*NET Work Importance Profiler - http://www.onetcenter.org/WIP.html
Identify occupations that you may find satisfying, based on the similarity between your work values (such as achievement, autonomy, and conditions of work) and the characteristics of the occupations.
 Online College and University Search - http://www.online-college-and-university-search.org/
 Pathways to Technology - http://www.pathwaystotechnology.org/index.html
Assists high school students exploring careers in technology fields. Partnered by American Assn of Community Colleges and National Science Foundation.
 Princeton Review Career Quiz - http://www.princetonreview.com/college/
 Salary.com - http://www.salary.com/
 School Student - http://www.students.net/studentschool/
Provides you with a collection of links to a variety of resources geared towards students, including a searchable directory and thematic channels.
 Search for Schools Network - http://www.searchforschools.net/
 Technical Schools and Computer Training Directory - http://www.techtrainingdirectory.com/
 TechnicalSchools.org - http://www.techtrainingdirectory.com/
 Technojobs - http://www.technojobs.co.uk/
UK & European job site
 Technology Education Information Center - http://www.technology-education.org/
Technology Education is an educational program that helps students understand and apply competencies in problem solving, designing, producing, using, maintaining, assessing, and developing technology.
 Thomson/Peterson's Find A Career College - http://www.petersons.com/cca/search.asp?path=ce.fas.career
 Virtual Job Shadow - http://www.virtualjobshadow.com/
 Vocational Research Institute - http://www.vri.org/
 WetFeet.com - http://www.wetfeet.com/

Welcome Back Students and Club Members

I am positive this will be the best year yet for our program. Since our program has grown to three courses, there are countless opportunities for you to develop into the leaders I know you can be. Remember .... "Forming Today ..... the Leaders of Tomorrow."