General resources for students
Examine Alternatives After High School
It's My Life: You're wondering what to do after high school. You are not alone. Many young people are not sure they want to go to college right away. Others don't have the money. You may want to learn something new. You may want to help other people. "It's My life," can help.
Discover Yourself: Assessments
O'Net Skills Search. Select skills you are interested in, click GO and see what occupations match the skills you chose.
My Next Move's Interest Profiler is based on career research by John Holland, Ph.D., and is used by career counselors around the world. To take the assessment, expect to spend about ten minutes answering questions about the kinds of work activities you like or would like to try. The results will describe how closely your answers match with nearly 900 different occupations that have been profiled. Holland describes six different categories of interest areas for both people and occupations.
Research Occupations
Compare Occupations: If you want to see how different occupations stack up, these reports provide a quick snapshot of employment numbers, wages and projected growth for different occupations. You can also compare different industries, and compare across different states.
In In this video, Ben Todd seeks to help viewers get the Big Picture of career development as he reconfigures and reframes how to best find a satisfying career. His research-driven organization, 80,000 Hours, (the length of an average work life,) is dedicated to helping people do just that: find a fulfilling career from a silghtly not-so-usual starting point. The steps in this process can be summed up: explore, get good at flexible skills and, solve pressing problems. Here is the link to 80,000 Hours website where you can take his first suggested step: Explore!
Drive of Your Life: Here is an interactive site created by the Indiana Youth Institute, that allows you to explore careers in a new and creative way! Have some fun learning about occupation possibilities (and much more,) that match you.
Planning Tools
Show Me the Future: This sight lets you take a journey into the future where you have the opportuity to make some real life choices and see how they play out.
My Plan.com: Here is a link to nearly 500 short videos about specific careers. you can also explore Top 10 Lists and a lot more.
