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Understanding Career Trends

• Bureau of Labor Statistics:
  
  Employment projections on what's hot and what's not:
  http://www.bls.gov/emp/
  
  Quarterly review of the lastest trends from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
  http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/ooqhome.htm
  
  Career guide to industries:
  http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/
  
  Occupational outlook handbook:
  http://www.bls.gov/oco/
  
  
  
• Occupation trends by State:
  
  Link to individual State economic, job and occupation trends:
  Select State . . . Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
  

• America's Career InfoNet:
  
  Research the job market, wages and trends by region:
  http://www.acinet.org/acinet/
  
  Employability checkup form: http://www.acinet.org/acinet/emp_ask.asp

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Understanding Job Types

• Review of job types and the skills required to complete the job:
  http://www.bls.gov/oco/
  
  Complete guide to career opportunities by industry:
  http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/
  
  
• Use this skills assessement to understand job types:
  http://online.onetcenter.org/gen_skills_page
  
  

What about college?

• View college requirements for different careers from collegeboard.com:
  http://cbweb9p.collegeboard.org/career/bin/career.pl
  
  Another collegeboard.com listing:
  http://www.MyRoad.com/careers/index.asp
  
  
  
• What to do with your collegiate major/skills:
  http://www.udel.edu/CSC/mrk.html

Run some self-assessment tests to determine your aptitude and character for the job you want:

• Always helps to access your character for a career: take this FREE online Keirsey Termperament Sorter:
  http://www.advisorteam.com/user/ktsintro.asp
  
  More information about the Keirsey Character and Termperament Assessment:
  http://www.keirsey.com/
  
  
  
• Holland Self-Directed Search: matching your career with your interest:
  http://www.humanmetrics.com/
  
  
• Briggs-Myer self assessment test:
  http://www.humanmetrics.com/
  
  
• Play this game to match your interests and skills with similar careers:
  http://web.missouri.edu/~cppcwww/holland.shtml
  
  
• Personality / IQ / and other tests:
  http://www.davideck.com/

Understanding what all of this means:

• Helping make career choices:
  http://www.careerkey.org/english/you/
  
  
• Managing the course of your career:
  http://www.careerstorm.com/

Building Self-Discipline

Time to set some personal achievement goals. Try these helpful plans:

• Personal planning tools:
  http://www.franklincovey.com
  
  
• Achieving Success begins with discipline and motivation:
  http://www.webreader.com/books/selfhelp/howpresident_main.html
  

• Goal setting plans:
  http://www.mymotivator.com/

Seeking Career Counseling

• Consumer guidelines to selecing a career counselor:
  http://www.ncda.org/about/polscc.html
  
  
  About the National Career Development Association:
  http://www.ncda.org/index.html
  
  
  
• Search online for career counselor:
  http://www.nbcc.org/cfind/
  
  
  Gain insight on the steps needed in your career planning:
  http://www.career-design.com/
  
  
  Search yellow pages for career counselors:
  career & vocational counseling