Education and Career Planning Sites.

Discover

• By taking these career inventories, explore career areas that are suggested by analyzing your responses.

• Use is limited to SRU students and graduates. If you are a Rock student or alumnus, contact Career Services to receive your login ID and instructions.

• After your inventories, meet with a career counselor to discuss your results.

Career Development eManual

• Provided by the University of Waterloo, this site includes 6 assessment tools related to interests, personality, skills, knowledge, and entrepreneurism. In addition, the site delineates and discusses 6 steps in the career development process: self assessment, research, decision making, networks and contacts, work, and lifework planning.

Education Planner

• This site by American Education Services allows you to take a career assessment inventory and to explore career choices. Other features involve study skills, graduate school searches, and scholarship information.

Match SRU Majors to Jobs

Personality Type Sites.

Humanmetrics

• Provides a variety of personality inventories for you to discover/confirm your individual preferences.  The free Jung Typology Test provides results based on the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory.

Personality Page

• A website about Psychological Type, based primarily upon the works of Carl G. Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers.

Career Information Sites

CareerOverview.com

• CareerOverview.com is a 100% free, non-commercial career website that offers a wealth of useful and reliable career and job information provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other primary resources.

Career Planning Guide

• Start planning your career now with the Freshmen & Sophomore Career Planning Guide by jobpostings Magazine.

CareerTV

• Career and employer videos, interviewing tips, resume advice, salary advice and jobs.

CityTownInfo.com

• Current information on career statistics as well as general statistics for each city in the US. A good resource to use to explore relocation possibilities as well as the popularity of jobs per city.

Glassdoor.com

• Glassdoor.com gives you an inside look at company salaries, reviews, and interview questions for thousands of companies.

Industry and Occupation Specific Information

• Linked to the National Career Development Association's website, this site offers an alphabetical listing of occupational skills. The list includes a short desciption of each link.

JobWeb.com

• Current information on salaries, legal issues, diversity recruitment, internships, college relations, and general employment/labor statistics.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

• Provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, this comprehensive site provides accurate career information about the countless occupations.

Occupational Outlook Quarterly

• This site contains the same informative articles, data, and career tips based on information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Department of Labor.

Occupational Projections

• This site contains state and national occupational trends and employment growth. Using information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the site displays projections through 2016.

O*Net Online

• An interactive web site which assists you in accessing detailed job descriptions and matching your skills to occupations.

True Careers

• Create an account to search professions, salaries, planning careers, and companies and industries. The companies and industries database allows you to find information about hi-tech, government, health care, and education careers.

UniXL

• UniXL provides students, the general public and businesses with education and career related resources. You may choose from a large variety of categories such as Business Environment, Education and Teaching, Health Sciences, Humanities, Information Technology, Law and Legal Studies, Life Sciences, Maths and Engineering, Medical Sciences, Molecular Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Universities & Colleges.

What Do You Like?

• Exploring career information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Last Updated: 11/19/2009 2:08:57 PM