Career Monographs Online*
Careers Database
Career Monographs Online provides students with complete information about individual occupations. Learn the history of an occupation, what type of education one needs to pursue it, what types of jobs one can secure, types of employing agencies, read information interviews with professionals already in the field, and gain access to other sites that have valuable information about each occupation. Everything one needs to know about individual career fields is offered.The site includes free interest assessments as well.
Montana Career Information System*
Montana Career Information System provides comprehensive information on the following topics: Occupation, Military Employment, Self-Employment, Graduate Schools, Financial Aid, Programs of Study and much more!
KUDER Career Inventories*
Montana Career Planning
The KUDER career planning system includes online assessements of career-related interests, skills and work-related values. Additionally, the system links student users to other valuable and helpful internet resources. Students who are interested in accessing the KUDER inventories pay a modest fee for the three inventories. To access them, please see someone in Career Services to secure a batch code.
Career One Stop
http://www.careeronestop.org/
With resources to help you explore careers, learn more about education and training, resume advice, samples and templates, interview help, salary and benefit information, job search resources and more, CareerOneStop is everything you need. It's . . .
- Your source for employment information and inspiration.
- The place to manage your career.
- Your pathway to career success.
- Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals
- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor
The Career Project
The Career Project.org is a brand new and FREE interactive career research tool that allows you a personal and uncensored look into thousands of real careers and jobs through the eyes of the people who have them. Each career profile has three sections; an extensive interview with the participant about their job, a detailed personal account of an average day on that job, and "Ask Me" a place where you can ask each participant any additional questions about their career. Learn what people really make and do all day, what they really love/hate about their position, how they got their job and what they suggest for you to do to find a similar position and much more!
Simply register using your Carroll email address to access all Career Project benefits for free!
Additional Career Development Resources
CAREER LAB
Although this site focuses primarily on information for people more advanced in their careers than college students/recent graduates, it does provide some resources that can be helpful to college seniors, including articles by "The Career Advisor" on job search and career topics. It also contains an interesting section on motivational career-related quotes.
CAREER LIBRARY
The Career Library EBSCO database offers patrons the ability to create resumes, work plans and research careers.
MY PLAN
http://www.myplan.com/, My Plan is a career and college guidance website just recently launched this past autumn. It was developed with the support of 6 different U.S. government agencies and is already endorsed in partnership by The Wall Street Journal. The site features over 150,000 pages of free content about colleges and careers, including articles, profiles, reviews, videos, and career assessment tests.
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR 21st CENTURY SKILLS
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education. The organization brings together the business community, education leaders, and policymakers to define a powerful vision for 21st century education to ensure every child's success as citizens and workers in the 21st century. The Partnership encourages schools and states to advocate for the infusion of 21st century skills into education and provides tools and resources to help facilitate and drive change.
CAREER VOYAGES--CAREER EXPLORATION SITE
This website is the result of collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to provide information on high growth, in-demand occupations, along with details about the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.
JOBSTAR CENTRAL
Find detailed information about careers ranging from accounting to travel agency work at this site.
MY PLAN - FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER
This is a great site for researching careers, occupations, what you can do with certain majors, as well as researching colleges. The site also has some career assessment tools that you can take to help guide you with your career decisions.
http://www.myplan.com/