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Career Exploration

Career exploration involves steps such as self-assessment, investigating options and developing an action plan.  Developing career maturity and career direction while in high school is critical to future career success.  Hope the following links lead you to useful information.

• Occupation Outlook handbook, 2006-07 Edition by U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Career Voyages - a joint effort by the US Dept. of Labor and the US Dept. of Education
• America's Career Resource Network (ACRN)
• O*NET Online
• America's CareerInfoNet (career onestop)
• Career links for students @ ACTEonline
• Vocational Information Center provided by khake.com
• A list a resource links on Two-Year Focus from the JobWeb Career Library
• Trend spotting: Hot Jobs for the Future (careerplanner.com)

Washington state also offers a few useful employment tools:

• Career Clusters tool where you can search for local occupational information organized by the 16 career clusters and the 12 Workforce Development Areas (WDA) in Washington state.
• Where Are You Going?  2006-08 Guide to Careers and Education in Washington state
• Workforce Explorer Washington and Washington's Interactive Labor Market Access (WILMA)
• WorkSource Washington

IT Careers

• If you are interested in computers, ...
• Learn more about the IT fields
• Explore careers in information technology (ClickonCareers.com)
• Computing Degrees & Careers (Association for Computing Machinery - ACM)
• CBC computer science program brochure