Internet Resources — Careers

Browse through detailed information on over 100 careers to discover what scientists really do and what it takes to prepare for these careers.

A site provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to provide information about the U.S. job market, particular career areas, employment statistics, and employment projections for up to 10 years.

A collection of links and resources for high school students and their families, focusing on colleges, scholarship and financial aid, and career information.

A national non-profit that increases educational opportunity for high-potential, low-income middle school students and inspires outstanding college and high school students to pursue careers in education.

Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages exploring their career interests.

Where teens can view career descriptions, choose a career, find a school, and get answers to financial aid, career placement, and career education questions

Provides information on careers from an occupational perspective.

From the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, a very useful career and college site, with resources and links to help teens with self-assessment, summer opportunities, college search, career development, and more.

This site provides links to pages with information on hundreds of different careers. Learn about a career that interests you and tips on how to pursue your career goals.

Features scholarship and grant databases as well as a free search for colleges and universities.

The pages on this Web site organize the key aspects of your career decision-making so that you can go about it in a manageable and sequential way.

One-stop career and college planning site. The site has the information to research careers, choose a postsecondary school, apply on-line, and find ways to finance an education.

Browse through detailed information on over 100 careers to discover what scientists really do and what it takes to prepare for these careers.

Compiled by Martha Wiseman, a retired guidance director and counselor, this site assists guidance counselors and high school students with planning for the future and other guidance issues.

A resource for helping students decide on possible majors in college; the site provides information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of materials available to particular majors.

"A guided tour of planning a career." On this tour, you can find out how to choose a career and how to reach your career goal.

A career exploration site for teens and twenty-somethings, where you can find all sorts of career tools and information, including self-assessment tools, streaming MP3 interviews with people in various career fields, and much more.

MyMajors.com can provide useful advice on college and university majors that a high school senior or first year college student with your interests and achievements might do well in.

A teen magazine that helps high school students, parents and counselors with life after high school.

A site provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to provide information about the U.S. job market, particular career areas, employment statistics, and employment projections for up to 10 years.

This site provides practical information on jobs and careers. Articles are written in straightforward, non-technical language and cover a wide variety of career and work-related topics such as new and emerging occupations, training opportunities, salary trends, and results of new studies from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Each issue also includes a profile of an unusual or rarely studied occupation.

A career and college prep resource that helps students to explore various career paths (about 1,000) and research almost 2,000 4-year colleges (by name, location, field of study, certificate program, size, cost, and more).