Career Finder Tools to Help You Make Career Decisions
Knowing where to find the right career finder tools can make all the difference.
When you're trying to find the career that's going to yield that dream job you're looking for, it's essential to have the right tools.
Do you know where to look for career information? Do you know how to find out about different careers?
If not, you'll want to take time to read about some of the tools on this page. Make the most informed career decision you can.
Explore Different Careers
The Office of Science Education, which is part of the National Institutes of Health in the US, has a neat little career finder tool on their website. It consists of a series of questions that help you sift through 112 possibilities and creates a list of jobs for you to explore based on your interests and skills.
If you want to explore the possibility of a medical or health science career, this is the place for you. Check it out:
Office of Science Education
At CollegeGrad.com, they have a HUGE database of occupations and careers. You can their career finder database to find the following types of information for literally hundreds of different jobs:
- Significant Points
- Nature of the Work
- Working Conditions
- Employment Statistics
- Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement
- Job Outlook
- Earnings
- Related Occupations
- Sources of Additional Information
And their information isn't just a couple of sentences either; it's comprehensive. It's a GREAT place to start researching different jobs. You won't find a better career exploration resource on the Web!
Start Here
If you're interested in taking another quiz, try this career finder quiz at channelone.com. It's a fun(ny) little quiz, and only takes 5 minutes to complete.
The New York State Department of Labor offers tbe Career Zone career finder tool to help you make career decisions. You'll find it here:
CareerZone
This is another one that only takes a couple of minutes to complete, but then you can access their database of information about different careers.
These are just starting points. To research a specific career, one of the best ways is to search about it in one of the search engines.
Here's a Google search box to get you started right away. Just type in the name of the occupation (like "nurse") that you're interested in...
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