Find out where your interests lead you with Career
Interest Surveys, Occupational Information and Planning resources.
The State of Illinois site for career information is at Ilworkinfo.
Our students are taught to use Horizons CIS in their junior year. To
get to CIS, click on the career resources link and then choose the CIS
picture. 
You will be asked for a username: illinois and then password: careers to get
into the site. You will find an O'NET interest inventory and
Occupational information to match nearly any career you can think of.
Horizons also has a handy College search engine that allows you to find a
school that matches what you are looking
for.
A quick interest survey to help sort out your career
interests is at CareerZone.
It is also based on the work of Dr. Holland and is a quick (4 step) survey.
This colorful site appears simple to use and has good information.
At
Planning
a Career a guided tour helping students find out how to choose a career
and how to reach a career goal. Useful tips on job hunting, resume writing,
and job interviewing techniques are included.
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For Matching College Majors to Jobs and Jobs to
People try these sites:
- What Can I
Do With a Major In...? is a great site from the University of North
Carolina at Wilmington's Career Services office. The listings for the
approximately 40 majors include related careers and web sites associated
with those careers.
- Princeton Review Online has a variety of information in its career
section.
Top
Ten Jobs for People Who . . .
lists great jobs for people who like
to keep learning, like adventure, refuse to dress up, love to work with
people, or prefer to work with their hands. Clicking on a career on the
list takes you to a profile of that career.
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For Job Outlook information try either our state
site at Illinois
Job Outlook or the Federal Government at the
Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
The Monster
Board, Sports
Related Job Listing,
Best Jobs USA, JobTrak
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