PREPARING FOR THE JOB SEARCH
Research Your Knowledge, Skills, and Interests
Deciding on a career path may be a difficult decision. It can be useful to analyze your professional skills to help you determine a direction. All job skills are transferable. As you analyze your skills, don’ t just think about the job titles you’ ve held. Think about the specific tasks you have accomplished at each job. Also, consider experience gained from volunteering, internships, clubs, class time, sports, and projects.
Explore Career Coach, an online tool that allows students to explore potential careers based on a short interest self-assessment. This search tool provides current local data on employment, wages, job postings, and associated education and training.
For additional information on skill identification:
Careeronestop Explore over 900 careers, take a self-assessment, and plan your career.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Learn about the work, education and training requirements, employment, salary, and the 10-year outlook for hundreds of occupations.
O * NET OnLine Decide what kinds of careers you might want to explore with the help of the O * NET Interest Profiler. Find what your interests are and how they relate to the world of work.
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