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WTHS IMC
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Career Assessment
Career
Quizzes - there are four career quizzes - abilities, data, people and
things, work preferences and work values - these are designed as a starting
point where you can begin your career exploration
Life Colors Online
- this assessment asks the questions what kind of person are you and what makes
you tick. The quiz takes about five minutes.
Self Assessment via MazeMaster
- includes three exercises to help you identify your interests, values and
skills. Click on English, then Self Assessment; the user name and password
are imc. Scroll to the bottom of the page to take the Interests, Skills or
Values tests.
Medical
Career Finder - take a short test to help you determine the medical career
that is right for you
Entrepreneurship
Test - this site provides a test to evaluate your skills as a business
owner; it also includes information on everything about starting a company
including factors of success and failure, raising capital, business plans,
financing a company. This is a one-stop site for information on entrepreneurship
Princeton
Review Career Quiz - this is a quiz has 24 questions and will help you
determine your interests and work style
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
An online personality test which analyzes responses and provides a
personality profile.
The Career
Key - This inventory is based on the Holland personality types. After
taking this, you will get a sense of what Holland personality types most closely
represent you and a list of occupations that match each personality type.Top of Page
Career Handbooks
-- Career planning guides which provide information for planning a career, identifying
qualifications, education and training, salary and work environment.
Department of Labor's
Occupational Handbook - the Handbook describes what workers do on
the job,
working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected
job prospects in a wide range of occupation
Princeton Review
Career Search - you will have to complete a registration form, but it
profiles over 200 careers; it also includes information on resume writing,
interviews, and cover letters
Guides
for Specific Careers - this is very useful for locating those hard to
find careers
Job Profiles
- This has information on the hard-to-find careers; workers share their
experience including rewards of their job; stressful part of the job; basic
skills the job demands, challengers of the future and advice on entering the
field
Career
Biographies - includes information on careers plus narratives written by
a person in that career
Job Star - information about planning your career including the
training and education, salary, the work environment and the demand.
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Links to Specific Careers
Medical Careers
Health Career
Information - from MEDLINEplus; a complete listing of health careers
including art therapist, athletic trainers, and genetic counseling.
Medical Career
Finder - take a short test to help you determine the medical career that is right for
you
MedEd Careers - from the American Medical Association; scroll down for
links to pdf files for specific careers; information includes occupation and
careers and links to educational institutions
Health professions - complete reference
guide of medical professions and the schools across the nation that offer
the courses necessary to obtain these careers. You can look up any of the
listed medical careers and find out their roles and responsibilities,
average salaries, educational requirements, and associated affiliations with
your career option.Mathematics
Profiles of Careers Using
Mathematics - these essays highlight how mathematics is used in a variety of careers
Careers in Mathematics - from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
ScienceScience
Careers in Life
Science - brief career profiles with links to professional organizations
Biotechnology Careers
- this is part of the Access Excellence site; click on Job Descriptions for an overview of
the career in the biotechnology field; be sure to read the interviews with scientists who
work in this fieldMilitary Careers
Military
Careers Guide Online - this is the leading career information resource
for military careers; provides over 150 enlisted and officer occupations
and their corresponding civilian occupations; it provides a description
and explains the training
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Government
Career Opportunities - These sites contain information on government
employment and other career opportunities
Cool Works - Site of 23,000 seasonal jobs in
National Parks, ski resorts and other resort area
U.S. Department of Labor's America's
Job Bank - Employment opportunities and listings throughout the United States.
Can be searched by specific job title and by states.
New Jersey Employment - Search for work in New
Jersey by job title or by browsing
Pennsylvania Job Center - Search for
work in
Pennsylvania by job title or by browsing. Also contains links to other state employment
service webTop of Page
Classified Ads
New Jersey Online
Philadelphia Inquirer
Career Path
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Interviews and
Resumes
Jobsmart
- this is an excellent source of information on resume writing; it even helps
you determine which type of resume is the best for you
Career Resource Center
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Relocation
Information
Salary
Information on State and Local
Government
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Information on
Companies
Company Information - search by state of
alphabetically
Vault Reports
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