- Career
Exploration: The School to Career
Connection
"What do you want to be when
you grow up?"
- You have been asked that since you were
a small child. Now however is when what you do dramatically
affects the answer to that question. According to Stephen Covey,
author of "First Things First", you need to put "compass before
clock". Many students spend "time" at their their high school but
do so without "direction". What good does it do to climb the
ladder of success, only to find out the ladder is leaning against
the wrong wall? The following activity is meant to give you time
to find "direction".
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- On-Line Connection to Careers
and Colleges
- Using the following Web Sites find
the answers to the following items.
- Write the site or sites where you
found the answers.
- Name the career you are personally
interested in. Write the following information about it. (Several
sentences each)
- 1. Name of career
- 2. Nature of career: describe what
the person does in detail
- 3. Working conditions: for example,
indoor or outdoors, works alone or with many people
- 4. Job Outlook (are there many or few
of these jobs in the future?)
- 5. Earnings: What is the range of
salaries?
- 6. Related Careers: What other
careers are alike this one or offer support to this one? (Eg.
lawyer and paralegal: explain the differences and
similarities.)
- 7. Education required
- 8. Additional information
- 9. Colleges that offer degrees in
these career areas. Describe the college(s) in detail
(admission requirements, college profile, etc).
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CAREER INFORMATION
Career
Planning Tool Piloted by Ms. Linda Jones, Ms. Kris Ryan and
Ms. Vicki Shackelford of FSUS- Occupational
Outlook Handbook gives very detailed information about
careers: Nature of the Work, Working
Conditions, Employment, Job Outlook, Earnings, Related
Occupations, Sources of Additional Information.
- Careers
Channel web site. Search Infoseek
for job information, allows you to put in a career for which to
search.
- US
Department of Interior job announcements page with application
information
- Career Research
Center- one of the most comprehensive carreer sites on the
Web.
- JobTrak is partnered
with over 500 colloge and university carreer centers nation wide.
- Online career magizine
that includes education-related content.
- Put PJ Scott to work
for the perfect job.
- Find jobs in exotic
places.
- QuestMatch will match
college students with prospective employers, focusing on
accounting, engineering or information systems.
- Resource site for college
students
- Education-related
job openings at instuttions across the nation.
- CareerWeb lets job seekers
search for free.
- Universal
Challenge: gives free advice to students in starting a career.
Advice on applying for jobs, allows students to analyze their
skills, and offers tips on resume writing.
- Job Web: Linking jobs,
job seekers and job-searching information, compiled by the
National Association of Colleges and Universities,
- Career
Exposure: your link to the world's best jobs, compiled by the
Link Exchange
- Web search engines: Use search engines on the web, by typing
"career" or the "specific name of a career" into the search box.
- Sites on specific careers (found by students)
- "I Want to be an
Architect": The Art and Science of Architecture: includes
links to other architecture sites.
- Science
Careers Information: Jobs in Physics, Astronomy, and Other
Science Fields, includes a section on starting a job hunt,
compiled by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at sonoma
State University
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COLLEGE INFORMATION
- College and
University Admissions Office Email Addresses: This is a
comprehensive directory of e-mail addresses for U.S. Colleges and
University Admission Offices.
- Your
Best College Buys Now Money Online - College Guide
- .edu
- Find Your College
How to choose a college
- The Princeton Review
Online
- College Edge
is a step-by-step guide through the college journey: choosing a
career and major, the college search, applying, financing and
final preparation. Simple one-page search questionnaire provides
six pages on each institution. Also features a separate search of
250 careers. Explores potential careers and majors, and advice
from choosing a college to packing and "settling in".
- 100Hot/College-the
top 100 college websites, ranked by number of hits with links to
each school.
- College NET-the
CollegeNET search engine finds colleges, community and technical
schools, using criteria such as geographic region, size of
enrollment, majors offered, and intercollegiate sports.
- College View-profiles
of over 3500 colleges and universities, electonic application
forms, career planning tools, and virtual tours of over 200
colleges.
- The College Guide-a search
service for selected colleges, admissions and financing
information, and links to student homepages.
- U.S. News Online
Colleges & Careers Center- U.S. News & World Repot's
yearly rankings of "America's Best Colleges," tips on getting the
most money for school, and information on studying abroad, boasts
exclusive college rankings from U.S. News & World Report's
1997 edition of America's Best Colleges. Plenty of information on
choosing a school, getting ready for admission tests and
applications. Advice on loans, scholarships and financial aid.
Plus a step-by-step guide for parents.
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INFORMATION ABOUT COLLEGE
TESTING
- College Board
Online-in addition to testing information, this site includes
college information for students, parents, teachers, and
counselors.
- Kaplan Online-information
about standardized test preparation courses, with links to over
300 colleges and universities, and related resources. You can
register for SAT, send Score Reports or Correction Form, Get test
preparation books, videos, etc.
- The Princeton Review,
resources for those preparing for Sat, GRE, LSAT and other
standardize tests, advice on colleges, careers and graduate
school, with a yearly ranking of colleges as determined by college
students themselves.
- Peterson's Education
Center-valuable resources on schools from k-12 throught
graduate study, and information on distance learning.
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- Local Resources for Tutoring, Advisement, SAT/ACT
Preparation, and
College
Information
- Solution Skills, 519 1/2 E. Tennessee
St., Tallahassee, FL 32308 phone 850-681-6534
- Contact: Randy Vickers e-mail:
HeyVick@aol.com
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- SEEKING FINANCIAL
AID
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- This webpage was created by Mrs. McQuone from pamphlets and
information gathered in her own search for career and college information for her children
and students. Hopefully, you will benefit from it also.
- If any site are no longer working or if you have any comments or
additions, please contact her at cmcquone@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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