Career Corner

Career Interest Surveys

Kuder Career Planning - This is a great website to complete a career portfolio.  It allows you to take a Career Search, Skills Assessment, and Work Values Inventory. Below are the codes you will need to access the system:

Updated KUDER Codes for the 2009-10 School Year

I954459RJT

KuderŪ Career Search with Person Match

S954463BCB

KuderŪ Skills Assessment-16

V954462YCZ

Super's Work Values Inventory-revised

The Career Key - Measures how similar you are to six personality types and how these relate to different jobs. You are then encouraged to explore them using the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter This personality inventory organizes your answers into four personality types.

Career Interests Game  (U. of Missouri) 
This quick exercise is based on Holland's theory that people and work environments can be classified into six different groups: Realistic, Investigative, Social, Artistic, Enterprising, or Conventional.

College Board Career Search - What do you want to be?  What college major will get you there? Find out at this site.

Tennessee Career Info - Take a career interest inventory and find out about job opportunities in Tennessee.

 

What Can I Do With This Major? - Choose from over 50 majors to see what career opportunities are available.

Occupational Outlook Handbook - This handbook is recommended for finding detailed information on careers.

University Career Centers - Check out the university career centers to get a wealth of career information and to discover the resources available when you are in college!

Resumania (University of Minnesota)-
Get help with writing your resume here! This step-by step-tutorial contains some excellent examples of three different types of resumes and walks you through the process of writing a resume.

Tennessean Classifieds - Find current employment listings.

U.S. Military  - Direct links to all the armed forces recruiting websites.

Military Career Guide Online - Want to find out lots of factual information about what it is like to be in the different branches of the Armed Forces?

Bureau of Labor Statistics  - Largest resource on labor information available on the web. If you are doing a term paper and need stats on anything related to jobs/careers, this is it!

Education and Career Information Portal - Provides relevant career information and education resources in a number of different areas including molecular and life sciences, medicine, finance, marketing and humanities. It also provides all links to all English speaking universities around the world including England, USA, Canada and Australia.
 

Career Opportunities for Travelers

Coolworks  - Jobs in National Parks and other cool places! Great site to find the perfect summer job in a vacation spot!

Summer Opportunities - There are thousands of summer jobs, camps, and volunteer programs listed here. It is a page from Peterson's (College and Career Info).

Americorps

Outward Bound Program - A wilderness challenge for the adventuresome.

 

Other helpful links:

Monster.com

Career Magazine
 

JobBank USA 


Headhunter.Net

"The Catapult" 

America's Job Bank