Career Exploration

Now that you have identified your skills, it is time to figure out what you want to do with them. The following sites can help. Please send me any info you have to add.

Rice University Career Services - What Can I Do With My Major/Degree? This site is useful regardless of which level of degreee you have. It contains .pdf files on a number of majors/degrees and lists what opportunities are available in academia, industry, education, government, etc.

America's Career InfoNet - U.S. Department of Labor occupational and economic information.

Career Resource Center - "Spotlights a variety of careers and offers an on-line "Career Planner" workbook; links to other helpful career information websites, primarily based in Canada."
CareerPlanit - "A good source of links (like the Smithsonian! that would be a neat job, eh?). Also, there are some good self-evaluation avenues for those of us who are not sure all the things that are newly acquired knowledge can be applied." - Elizabeth Hart (Chemistry) MAR2001
CareerWeb - "Offers career advice, job search tips and job match-up."
College Grad Job Hunter - "Your link to life after college."
Columbia University Career Services - "This site contains a page on Career Exploration, Self-Assessment, Researching Your Career Options, Study Abroad, and Graduate and Professional Schools." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), MAR2001
Cornell University Career Services - "This site contains an interesting page on Developing Your Career Goals." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), FEB2001
Emory University Career Services [Career Related Sites]- "Great resource for other links!! May be a good template of sorts." - Elizabeth Hart (Chemistry) MAR2001
Experience.com - "A resource for students and young professionals beginning their careers, including advice on the latest workplace trends, and resources for researching a company and finding a job."
Exploring Career Options (The Riley Guide) - "Career and occupational guides, choosing a career path and managing your career, with links to self assessment resources."
Exploring Careers Web Site - "Learn about different kinds of working conditions, educational requirements and the market outlook for various occupations."
Headhunter.net - "Research specific occupations, visit on-line career fairs, or find a job from this site."
Job Choices Online - "Advice from the experts at the National Association of Colleges and Employers; includes a useful resource library."
JobStar - "Career guidance resources from California public libraries, including information on a wide variety of occupations, salaries and the hidden job market."
Occupational Outlook Handbook - "Hundreds of job descriptions, occupational outlooks and employment trends from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."
Science Magazine's Next Wave - "Science's online career resource site for students, postdocs and early career scientists." - site's blurb
"They have some very nifty pages on graduate careers. Their Career Transitions and For Grad Students pages are great. Some of their pages and articles are free, but a lot of the really good stuff is under a subscription service; your institution may have a subscription already (like Rice :-) )." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), FEB2001
"It has all sorts of links to research and science-related careers as well as useful articles about various careers or aspects of job hunting." - Rachel R. Leininger (Biochemistry and Cell Biology) MAR2001
"Great source of career information for all science-related disciplines!" - Elizabeth Hart (Chemistry) MAR2001
State Employment Services - "Government Employment Agencies, state by state."
StudentCenter - "Aids in identifying personal strengths, defining career goals, and learning about specific companies."
The Pavement: BrassRing Campus - "Job listings, job search tips, on-line career management, success stories, moving to a new location, developing a budget and other world of work necessities. Links to BrassringDiversity.com, an on-line career planning magazine."
The Job Hunter's Bible - "Tips for job hunting on and off the Internet by Dick Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute?"
University of Waterloo's Career Development Manual
Vault Reports - "News, career profiles, and company assessments, plus job postings concentrating on the business and financial world. Company assessments are provided through insider interviews."
Wetfeet.com - "This site has some good information. You can generate career and salary profiles based upon a given geographic location. Career profiles, employer interviews, salary estimates, and full-time and internship job postings. Company profiles are provided by the companies themselves as part of their membership package.

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