College and Career Readiness Resources
Next Generation Personal Finance
Online games that engage students in financial decision making.
The ACT contains multiple-choice tests in four areas: English, mathematics, reading, and science. ACT's writing test is optional and will not affect your composite score.
EducationQuest provides free college planning services, need-based scholarship programs, college access grants for high schools, college access resources for middle schools, and outreach services for community agencies.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook provides information on what workers do; the work environment; education, training, and other qualifications; pay; the job outlook; information on state and area data; similar occupations; and sources of additional information, for 324 occupational profiles, covering about 4 out of 5 jobs in the economy.
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The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs.
College Board helps students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success—including the SAT, the Advanced Placement Program, and Accuplacer.
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My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. My Next Move has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's interests and level of work experience.
Mapping Your Future is a nonprofit organization committed to helping students, families, and schools navigate the higher education and student loan processes through trusted career, college, and financial aid counseling and resources. Mapping Your Future's student-minded information portal and person-to-person financial loan counseling provides unbiased financial aid education to help students understand the student loan process, educational institutions enhance default prevention plans, and members find beneficial opportunities to guide students to financial success, while supporting the mission of the organization.
Career Girls is a comprehensive video-based career exploration and readiness tool for girls. It’s free to use, and free of ads. We have the largest online collection of career guidance videos focusing exclusively on diverse and accomplished women and we add to it weekly.
Nebraska Career Connections will help you explore a world of possibilities, make decisions about your future, and prepare for the next step in your education and career planning journey.
Kuder Navigator® will help you learn about yourself, build an education plan, and explore and prepare for the various options after high school. You may research occupations and begin to develop a portfolio to display to potential employers or educational institutions.
Career videos show the types of work in which individuals employed in a career field, cluster or pathway are engaged. Nebraska Career Education, in cooperation with the Nebraska Departments of Labor and Economic Development, offers an array of virtual career tours of Nebraska-based businesses and industries. These virtual industry tours provide a unique opportunity to get a glimpse inside Nebraska-based industries without leaving the classroom. Interviews, tours of the business environment and “pop-up” information and statistics on job markets, salaries, and educational requirements are part of each career cluster’s videos.
U.S. Department of Labor, offer a large video collection that allows students to learn about careers, industries, skills and abilities, or work options and education levels. The Career and Cluster videos show the work that people do in nearly 550 careers, organized by the 16 career clusters. The Skill and Ability videos explore the skills and abilities employers are looking for in job candidates. Work option videos focus on non-traditional careers and work options.
The Access College Early (ACE) Scholarship Program pays tuition and mandatory fees for qualified, low-income high school students to enroll in college courses from Nebraska colleges/universities, either through dual-enrollment or early enrollment agreements with these institutions. ACE scholarships are on a first-come/first-serve basis.
NE Community College-Find Programs
Provides information on certificates, diplomas, and associate programs of all Nebraska community colleges combined. In most cases, the program will lead to occupation/labor market information per community college pages about each program.
BigFuture is the College Board’s free college planning tool, designed to support students like you from your first thoughts about college to your first day on campus. BigFuture will help you find the right college. You can search and compare colleges and explore majors and programs.
Job Search: Comprehensive resource for Nebraska full-time & part-time jobs. It provides a customized job search where you can narrow jobs down to a certain area and can apply to jobs directly from the listing.
Career Occupations: provides detailed occupational outlooks specific to Nebraska (Nebraska Occupational Outlook)
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Start your career and build your skillset through Apprenticeship. Have a career path or location in mind? Enter them below and we'll help you find apprenticeship opportunities near you.
Find the right trade or vocational school for you. If you are looking for a vocational school and interested in career technical education or looking for a nontraditional educational path, this website has career resources, vocational training, and trade school options that are designed to help you understand what's available.