Career Resource Sites

Favorite Resources:

Career Trek - Webquest
Webquest from Garden Springs Elementary

BLS Career Informaton
Career information for kids.

Career Zone
A comprehensive site containing information on many careers.

What Do They Do?
Learn about what people do at work and how they make our world a better place.

Career Key
Online job inventory.  Very good!!  Probably best for intermediate level or above.

Other Career Resources:

Kapow - Career and the Power of Work - http://www.kapow.org/ lessons created for 1st - 6th grade

Career Studies : http://www.cln.org/subjects/career_cur.html 

Various Career sites : http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/careers.htm#J6 

Mining: http://www.quarry.com.au/S-careers.pdf 

: http://www.edhelper.com/cat62.htm 

Highest Paying Occupations: http://www.acinet.org/acinet/oview5.asp?Level=Overall 

Careers for Woman (from Girl Scouts site): http://jfg.girlscouts.org/How/Careers/careers.htm 

Human Capital for Money Lesson: http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM231 

Intermediate Strategies for Teaching Careers: http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/real/career4all/intermediate.html 

Job Shadowing Website: http://www.jobshadow.org/get_started/guide.html 

Teachnet.com Links and Resources: http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/real/career4all/links.html 

Career Webquest: http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/Career%20Inventory/intro2.htm 

Careers Past and Present – Webquest: http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/wq/WebQ97/CAREER.HTM 

The Occupational Outlook Handbook
Contains employment trends in the electronic version of the 2001-2002 Occupational Outlook Handbook. The entire handbook, able by keyword, is included.

Career Development Manual
From the department of Career Services at the University of Waterloo, Cananda, this site provides a thoughtful, interactive guide to career planning.

CareerPath.com
Posts nearly 500,000 new jobs on the Internet every month and is updated daily by newspapers across the U.S. Jobs may be ed for by newspaper, job category, and keyword.

CareerMosaic
Provides a able jobs database, resume posting service, online job fair information and industry specific employment information. The College Connection has internship information and employment resources for college and graduate students, as well as high school students who are planning ahead.

CareerWeb
CareerWeb hosts a jobs database with over 13,000 listings from over 240 companies, and it is able by job category, state, city, and keywords. Applicants can upload their resumes and employers can list job openings.

Mapping your future
Provides information and links to a variety of college and career planning organizations.