Career Information

Comprehensive web site with useful career directory and search capability.

Comprehensive commercial site providing a wide variety of articles and information on post-secondary educational and career opportunities. Sections include: College Admissions Advice, Financial Aid, Test Prep, Career and Athletics.

MyRoad, a service of The College Board, is available at no charge to all students who have taken the PSAT. MyRoad offers a personality assessment and provides suggested careers and majors compatible with your personality and strengths.

The site provides excellent resources to explore majors, find a college and research careers along with links to scholarship information, sources of loans, financial aid and advice.  Popular features include a validated personality assessment with a detailed report on your personality type along with a list of suggested careers and majors that fit your personality and strengths.

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), a service of the U.S. Government, is available without charge or obligation regardless of the student’s interest in joining the armed services. The program is designed for high school students to measure aptitude, skills and interests and provide guidance on exploring potentially suitable careers.

HumanMetrics offers an in-depth personality profiler and provides a description of your personality type along with a list of potentially suitable occupations and educational options.

The University of Missouri Career Center offers The Career Interests Game designed to help you match your interests and skills with suitable careers.

CollegeAnswer, is a leading web destination for the college bound students and their parents.

College Answer has interactive tools for searching for colleges and analyzing the affordability of schools, comparing financial aid awards and search for scholarships.

Sallie Mae®, provider of College Answer, is the nation's leading provider of student loans and administrator of college savings plans.  SLM Corporation and its subsidiaries are not sponsored by or agencies of the United States of America.

Off to College provides a comprehensive college planning and preparation site including planning guides and calendars, scholarships search, college budgeting worksheets and more.

Check out Wisemantech for links to information about a wide variety of careers ranging from art therapy to dentistry to psychology.

The U.S. Government maintains this excellent web portal for students and young adults. The site features information and resources focused on a variety of topics including: planning and paying for post-secondary education, community service, careers, study abroad, international students, career development, taxes, voting & democracy, online research & information, study skills, scholarships & grants, consumer information and military service.

Mapping Your Future is a national collaborative, public-service, nonprofit organization providing career, college, financial aid, and financial literacy services. The site is sponsored by student loan guaranty agencies – many of which are nonprofit or state agencies – from around the country. Mapping Your Future is also supported by other organizations including charitable foundations.

College Is Possible (CIP) is the American Council on Education's K–16 youth development program that motivates middle and high school students from under-served communities to seek a college education. The site provide many articles and resources on various topics including: * Paying for College * Student Aid * Preparing for College * Guide for Parents * Courses Students Should Take to Prepare for College * Choosing the Right College * Search for Colleges

Many students don't know exactly what kind of information they're looking for in their career search.  For those who don't know,  it can be difficult to know even where to begin a search, and overwhelming to try to wade through all the information that's out there.  This site can help you assess your interests and provide links to information pertaining to a wide range of potential careers.

Website focused on exploring Engineering Careers.

Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. It offers a comprehensive platform to help students and adults find the right career, explore career options, as well as to plan future education and training.

CareerOneStopis a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals.  America’s Career InfoNet helps individuals explore career opportunities to make informed employment and education choices. The Web site features occupation and industry information, salary data, career videos, education resources, self-assessment tools, career exploration assistance and other resources.

The Career Voyages 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, in-demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.  Thr site's target audiences are: Students, Career Changers, Parents (desiring to help their children make good career and/or educational choices) and Career Advisors.

The ASEE Engineering Center site provides engineering education resources including a college search tool and related information for students looking to study engineering in college and to explore college engineering programs.

TryEngineering.org is a resource for students (ages 8-18), their parents, their teachers and their school counselors. This is a portal about engineering, engineering careers, and how to pursue an engineering career.

The portal Health Care Management Careers is provided by the The American College of Healthcare Executives to educate students on healthcare management careers.

The O*NET system serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations. The O*NET database houses this data and O*NET OnLine provides easy access to that information.

Provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, this site provide information for for hundreds of different types of jobs including teacher, lawyer, nurse, engineer. The Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you: the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, working conditions and more.