A free public service to help people make sound career decisions. This outstanding resource will take you step-by-step through the career exploration process, allow you to determine the types of employment which mesh best with your own personality and interests, obtain info about specific jobs from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, and learn more about making career decisions. Includes the Career Key written for middle school students, as well!!
Info, worksheets, and exercises to help you identify those skills you would like to use in the workplace AND ways to effectively promote yourself; includes:
Encourages individuals to explore
and gather information which enables them to synthesize, gain
competencies, make decisions, set goals and take action.
This free, anonymous process helps you match yourself or another person with a given job. Assess your personal style using the Personal Style Indicator (PSI); assess the work behavior style for a job using the Job Style Indicator (JSI); you ask others to provide input, also.
This 65 question forced-choice test will reveal whether or not you're likely to do well in sales and gives a brief summary of your personality characteristics.
Discover your place in the world and choose work that will be compatible with your own unique skills, knowledge, personality, and interests. Use the materials at this site to determine your own needs, then look for the right match in a workplace. Includes:
This short-form
(24 forced-choice questions) returns a summary of the
respondent's likely Interest and Style, particularly as they relate to
employment.
Find your niche -- answer these five questions and get instant feedback about possible careers you may not have considered; includes info such as job descriptions, salary, how to break into the business, profiles of people in the field, etc.
Identifying what you want is the first step towards getting what you want. Use the resources here to help clarify your career goals so you will know what to look for.
University of California, Santa Barbara -- Counseling and Career Services
Information to help you identify your personal strengths and define your career goals; including
Tools and Quizzes. Learn how the Web can help you plan your life and find a job.
Take these personality tests online and determine your "psychological
type"; this site also provides a wealth of additional info about temperament, character, and personality, including Work and Temperament.
By assessing your skills, knowledge and abilities you will be better equipped to market yourself and obtain employment which will be suitable and satisfying to you. Includes information about The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS).
This self-assessment, based on the work of Dr. John L. Holland, is
designed to help you match your interests and skills with similar
careers by getting you to think about how your personality will fit in
with specific work environments and types of employment.
The Career Center, University of Missouri at Columbia
Learn more about the sixteen personality types and how the info is used; see the sixteen Type Portraits for in-depth analysis once you've determined your type.
After you determine your type, use the extensive info available on this site to gain insights into your personality and career options. If you aren't quite sure WHICH one is your type, the excellent descriptions can help you narrow down the choices, too.
The Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania provides this site with links to info on a variety of careers in the medical field which will allow you to begin exploring its opportunities, educational requirements and outlook. Includes links to educational institutions offering training programs, as well as to other pertinent organizations.
The Center for Health Careers / Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania
This site, by and for RNs, includes info on career management, continuing education, nursing career profiles, specialty areas, and unusual careers for RNs. Considering a Career in Nursing? Find out more about this field as well as trends and prospects for the future; job search and employer profiles are also available.
A nurse, recovering from a coma, describes her experience as the PATIENT. She draws on her expertise as a trained medical professional to document her journey on the road to recovery. Included are her experiences in the ICU and while undergoing physical therapy from her NEW perspective, on the other side of the bed.
Dick Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute provides a useful collection of resources and helpful articles to help you figure out WHAT job you want as well as HOW and WHERE to find it. There's also a handy quick-reference Site Map so you'll also be able to locate the information you want quickly and easily.
Got a case of the midlife blahs? Does work feel like a Dilbert cartoon?
Why not start a new career -- it's less traumatic than you might think.
Here's how to do it right; from
FORTUNE MAGAZINE.
Al Siebert, Ph.D. (author of The Survivor Personality) provides this Personal Traits Checklist for Homebiz Success, a list of traits common in people who have a better than average chance of successfully running a home based business.
This site will be especially helpful to those considering publication or sale of their own material and provides useful links to sources of additional information for writers, including: Freelancing 101.
The Department of Economic Development has links to Allegheny County's
Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) which can provide free valuable assistance to anyone, whether they are already established in business or just planning to start one.
Allegheny County Department of Economic Development
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