Columbia Basin Tech Prep

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. The following links may help in your career expoloration:

• Occupation Outlook handbook by U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
• CareerOneStop by the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
• O*NET Online
• ACTEonline
• Vocational Information Center provided by khake.com
• JobWeb
• 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
• WorkSource Washington

IT Careers

• If you are interested in computers
• Computing Degrees & Careers (Association for Computing Machinery - ACM)
• CBC Computer Science program brochure