Career Exploration
Be What I
Want To Be - http://bewhatiwanttobe.com/
- allows one to investigate different jobs across the state of
Maryland and see what the people who have those jobs had to do to get
them.
Career
Exploration Links -
Occupational - http://career.berkeley.edu/infolab/CareerFields.stm
- Provides links to the major career groups.
CareersAndColleges - http://careersandcolleges.com - offers a unique combination of time-saving interactive tools to help students and parents find a college, learn about financial aid, compare student loans, and research thousands of scholarship opportunities.
Culinary Arts and Food
Science Career
Guide - http://www.khake.com/page30.html
- includes information such as "Personal Requirements" and
"Related Jobs."
Culinary Schools - http://www.culinarycolleges.info
- "a listing of top cooking schools in the United States
committed
to providing you with a positive, comprehensive, and challenging
hands-on
experience for a variety of rewarding positions in the culinary
field."
Engineering: Your Future - http://www.asee.org/precollege/
-
Everything here makes an engineering career look fun and exciting.
Start with a
look at the “Engineering Alphabet” from aerospace engineering to
transportation
engineering. This list gives a brief description of the career
and
usually contains links to the professional organization for that
field.
Also be sure to look at the “What is Engineering” to get answers to
frequently
asked questions.
Job
Profiles - http://www.jobprofiles.org/index.htm
- Experienced workers in a wide variety of fields share their
thoughts on
their profession.
Maryland Health Careers - http://www.marylandhealthcareers.org/
- designed by the health professionals in the state.
MarylandMentor
-
Career Center
- http://www.marylandmentor.org/Career/CareerCenter/default.asp
- use the "List of Careers" to find occupations listed by
clusters or "Keyword Search" to find them quick and easy.
Military Career Guide - http://www.militarycareers.com/
- in the “search the guide” feature you can either run a keyword
search
or scroll down to the list of Enlisted and Officer Occupations.
“It gives
you details on 152 enlisted and officer occupations, one by one.
Because most
military occupations are comparable to one or more civilian
occupations, you
are given the civilian counterpart for every applicable military
occupation. In
addition, this site describes training, advancement, and educational
opportunities within each of the major Services.”
O*NET
Online - http://online.onetcenter.org/
-
browse or search occupational information by job title, skills, or by
interests. Snapshots of each career include details of experience
requirements, occupation requirements, worker requirements, worker
characteristics, and occupation characteristics.
Ocean Science Careers - http://www.vims.edu/bridge/career.html
- links to all types of information on a variety of careers
dealing in
any way with the oceans.
Occupation Search - http://www.iseek.org/
- allows you to search for information on a variety of careers.
This site
is designed for Minnesota, but most of the information is universal.
Occupational
Employment and
Wage Estimates, Alphabetical List
- http://stats.bls.gov/oes/oes_data.htm
- Each occupation's five-digit OES code number is a link to that
occupation's definition and national employment and wage
estimates.
Occupational
Outlook Handbook - http://stats.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
- “a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to
provide
valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future
work
lives. To find out about a specific occupation, enter its
name in
the "Search by occupation" box at the top right of the page. To
find out about multiple occupations, browse through listings using the
occupational cluster buttons on the left of the page. For a listing of
all
occupations in alphabetical order, click on one of the letters at the
top of the
page.”
Office of Science
Education - http://science.education.nih.gov/LifeWorks.nsf/feature/index.htm
- this site has a wide variety of useful data from career finders
to true
stories, to salaries for the health and medical profession.
Peterson's Culinary
Schools - http://www.culinaryschools.com
- "a listing of top cooking schools in the United States and
around
the world, brought to you by Peterson's. Click the name of any school
below to
read a detailed profile."
Western Montana School
for Guides - http://www.guidetraining.com/
-
"provides students with in-depth, hands-on training in dozens of
essential
topics necessary for your career as a professional guide or outfitter,
or
simply to be a better outdoorsman."
Updated 12/10/08