MAP III
What Career Information Do I Need to Know?
What jobs would interest me?
Would I prefer working with people, data, or things?
What does my academic performance tell me about my career options?
How do my values, interests, and skills impact on my career options?
What market trends should I know about?
What can I do to learn more?
Visit the Career Development Center (CUB, x. 1484)
Read career books/manuals (available in the CDC and the Library)
Contact ACES (Alumni Career & Employment Services, x. 1218) to learn about the careers of SHIP grads.
Conduct informational interviews with people in careers in which you are interested.
Ask to shadow someone who is working in a career in which you are interested. Contact the Alumni Office’s Career Contacts Program (Rife House, x. 1218)
Practice your leadership and communication skills in extracurricular activities.
Reference the following web sites for more information about careers:
- http://stats.bls.gov/oco/Occupational Outlook Handbook contains job descriptions, earnings, skills, employment projections, and education requirements for 253 jobs that cover about 90% of workers.
- http://www.nycareerzone.org/Organizes job information around 6 different clusters of majors-human & public service, arts & humanities, business & information systems, health services, natural & agricultural sciences, and engineering and technology.
- http://www.review.com/career/article.cfm?id=career/car_quiz_intro24-question career quiz offered by the Princeton Review using the Birkman Method which classifies you according to a color profile and lists appropriate jobs based on that profile.
- http://www.acinet.org/acinet/Lists a variety of job families, wages and trends for specific jobs in specific locations, lists required skills, knowledge, etc. for jobs.
- http://www.queendom.com/test-junkie/career/index.html Offers self-assessments in a variety of different areas including several on career choice.Try the career questionnaire quiz located on this site.
- http://www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca Outstanding site includes self-assessment activities, information sources, and a section on decision-making.
- http://www.umanitoba.ca/counselling/careers.htmlCanadian-based web site that lists various careers and specific web sites for each for further information.Also has an excellent career newsletter.
- http://cbweb9p.collegeboard.org/career/bin/career.plCollege Board questionnaire followed by descriptions of the 237 most popular careers.
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