careers

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About.com: Career Planning: Essays for those planning careers or seeking employment. Employment market outlook through 2010 and links for post secondary schooling and graduate schooling.

America's Career Info Net: Guidance site to information about occupations.

Campbell Interest and Skill Survey : The CISS is one of the most popular psychological instruments for career counseling. This site has a link to a free demo of the test. Counselors and students can access the test online, but the service has a modest fee.

Career Babe: Focuses on job seeking and career preparation. Resume writing tutorial, recent information about salaries, links to other career sites.

College Browser: Careers : An online searchable database of college majors from the College Board.

Dictionary of Occupational Titles: Online version of the Bureau of Labor Statistics publication that offers annotations (i.e. job descriptions) for several thousand classified occupations.

Facts on File -- Career Guidance Online: A database service from the Free Library of Philadelphia. Requires a library card.

Internet Information for Education and Employment Knowledge -- iSeek:
Online skills assessment instrument.

Job and Career Help Center: A database service from the Free Library of Philadelphia. Requires a library card and PIN.

Life Colors Online: A personality inventory that you can take online. The lite version does not have all career profiles.

Monster.com Career Advice Center: Huge web portal for people seeking employment: classified employment lists, resume services, career counseling, career exploration, educational opportunities for persons seeking career changes.

Occupational Outlook Handbook: Online version of the most recent publication from the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics for career descriptions, employment prospects, and employment qualifications. The Occupational Outlook Handbook is updated every two years.

Personality Tests : Various personality tests that can be taken online for vocational counseling.

Quintessential Careers : A web portal for career planning and job seeking with a very useful toolkit of aids for writing cover letters and resumes, and for taking job interviews.