Additional Resources

Career planning is an ongoing process that allows you to rethink and reevaluate you and your career options as you gain experience. Below are some suggestions for career planning.

Understanding Yourself

• Do What You Are is a personality profile and career interest survey that provides you with a detailed description of both your personality and possible career interests. Access Do What You Are at https://accesscdn.bridges.ca/portal/student/landingPage.do

  • • The site ID is 21905

    • The password is "odonel"

• Kingdomality lets you know your medieval vocational personality — www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html

• Mappingyourfuture.org is a good website to help you get started

• PersonalityType.com, from the authors of the book Do What You Are, provides a short quiz to determine your MBTI type — www.personalitytype.com/career_quiz

• Start Where You Are is an interactive self-exploration site that connects interests to careers — www.startwhereyouarevt.org

• Typefocus offers a free abbreviated version of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator focused on the introvert/extravert element — www.typefocus.com/s_complimentary.html

• University of Waterloo offers a series of self-assessment tools — www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/step1.asp

Exploring Particular Careers:

• Job Hunter's Bible from Dick Bolles is a supplement to What Color is Your Parachute? and an excellent starting place — www.jobhuntersbible.com

• University of Waterloo’s Career Development eManual offers a 6-step career planning tool — www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca

• "What Can I Do With A Major In?" information from University of North Carolina Career Services — www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors

• MyFuture.com offers a career toolbox with information on finding a job, top occupations, and interviewing — www.myfuture.com/t2_ctoolbox.html

• California Career Zone, though focused on California, offers an interactive way to assess your interests and work values, explore careers, and perform a “reality check” to assess what your ideal lifestyle costs — www.cacareerzone.com

• Career Voyages offers four paths for career exploration, including a search for high-demand careers — www.careervoyages.gov/students-main.cfm

• Quintessential Career’s Teen Web site offers advice on job seeking, interviewing, and job options, and provides links to helpful job information sites —www.quintcareers.com/teen_jobs.html

• Mapping Your Future provides information on planning a career, including developing a career plan, assessing skills and interests, and researching occupations —www.mappingyourfuture.org

• NextSteps.org is an employment, career development, and job finding resource for youth — www.nextsteps.org

• America's Career Infonet provides job market trends, wages, state profiles, and useful career exploration tools including skills assessment tools — www.acinet.org/acinet

• Riley Guide offers job resources and employment information, including articles on self-assessments, planning, and finding a job — www.rileyguide.com