A Guide to Career Information on the Web
COMPREHENSIVE CAREER EXPLORATION SITES
STARTING YOUR CAREER EXPLORATION BY LOOKING AT MAJORS
EXPLORING CAREERS WITH SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISES
COMPREHENSIVE CAREER EXPLORATION SITES
WISCareers is Wisconsin 's comprehensive career site. It allows you to assess your career interests, work values and workplace skills. After you do each exercise the program will suggest careers that may be of interest to you. You can think click on the career to obtain information about the career.
You can also use this site to obtain a wealth of information about an occupation you already know you are interested in: it includes a description of the occupation, education necessary, salaries and job outlook nationally, statewide and by county in Wisconsin .
You must obtain a registration code from an adviser or Career Associate in Schofield 226.
CareerZone is the comprehensive career site for the state of New York. It also has interests, values and abilities exercises that give you a list of related careers. The salary and outlook information is specific to New York. You will have to create a profile. Career assessments are found at "My portfolio."
ISeek is the Minnesota site. It also has a skills assessment and an interest assessment that link to careers.
The career descriptions are very good-and include video clips. They do not include salary or outlook information, but do include educational opportunities in Minnesota.
Vocational and Information Center a privately developed site that emphasizes vocational education, it links to a wide variety of career exploration sites, as well as sites with information about all types of jobs.
SIGI PLUS is available to UW-Eau Claire students and staff, provides accurate up-to-date descriptions of hundreds of jobs. You can view a complete description of one job, or compare the characteristics of two jobs. It also has a self-directed career assessment component.
STARTING YOUR CAREER EXPLORATION BY LOOKING AT MAJORS
Mymajors.com is the best site to link your interests and past experiences with a choice for a major. In addition to suggesting majors based on information you provide, it gives a description of various majors and links to professional organizations and even suggested books. You do not have to do the exercises-you can just click on the "major information pages"
Majors at UW-Eau Claire lists all of our majors with their emphases and has links to the home pages of all of the majors
Majors at other UW System schools-you can search here by major to see what is offered at other schools (in case UW-Eau Claire doesn't have the major are interested in).
Princeton Review's Major Search-This site provides information about a large number of majors. It also allows you to search for schools (both undergraduate and graduate school) by majors.
UW-Eau Claire's Career Services Web site has several good resources:
- "What can I do with a Major in" provides information about various majors at UW-Eau Claire.
- "What can I do with a Major in Links" takes you to other school's site.
- Major Links has a variety of career sites related to each of UW-Eau Claire's majors--including occupational information, professional associations and internship possibilities.
Other university's Web sites that are particularly good at linking majors to careers include:
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Northern Illinois
UW-Green Bay's Majortopia
Buffalo State
UW-Oshkosh
If you have a good idea about the career you want to pursue, but just want information, there are a number of good sites:
Occupational Outlook Handbook is a federal publication that describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. It has links to professional organizations and other good sites.
America 's Career Infonet-Click on "Occupational Information." You can choose an occupation and customize the information by state. This site also has 450 videos of various occupations.
WISCareers has great state based information
ISeek has Minnesota information and includes the same videos as does "Career Infonet."
Vocational and Information Center links to what the creator thinks are the best sites for a variety of occupations.
EXPLORING CAREERS WITH SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISES
While it is always best to discuss any career assessment you take with a career counselor or adviser, there are assessments on the internet that can get you thinking and give you ideas. Evan when the results may seem odd, going through the exercises can often help you structure your thinking about careers.
Career Assessments that link to suggested careers
Interest inventories-If you want to start with what you are interested in, two good sites are:
- CareerZone (found in "My Portfolio") NOTE: This is the same inventory as the one in WISCareers, but does not require a code.
- Mazemaster (create an account and go to Interests)
Skills-If you want to start with what skills you want to use in a job, try the assessment at: ISeek
Work Values-If you want to start with what is important to you in a work environment,
- try the "Work Importance Profiler" at CareerZone (found in "My Portfolio") -OR-
- do the "work values assessment" at WISCareers
Other good self-assessment exercises that do not link to careers:
While these exercises won't give you a list of jobs, they can get you thinking and can be the basis of a discussion with a career counselor.
Interests-Australian Careers-Career Quiz
Values-UW-Platteville, Counseling Department or Mazemaster (create an account and go to Values)
Skills-Mazemaster (create an account and go to skills) This site asks you to decide what skills you have and those you want to have.
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator is a widely used, research validated, personality inventory that can be used to help you choose a career. To take the MBTI you need to meet with a counselor or adviser certified to give this inventory.
However, there are some on-line inventories based on the MBTI that can be useful. These short inventories will give you an introduction to the theory and let you begin to explore your "type".
Good descriptions of the theory behind the MBTI as well as descriptions of the various "types" can be found at the following sites:
- Typelogic
- Type Can an interactive presentation done by the Center for Applications of Psychological Type
