What Comes Next? Career Advice
As you navigate the college search process you will be asked, and ask yourself, many questions -
"Where do you want to go?"
"What do you want to study?
" How am I going to pay for this??"
But have you ever stopped and asked yourself, "why am I going to college?" The honest answer is that you need to get a job - one that you enjoy and one that has employ-ability and demand. Below you will find links to some important resources when it comes to selecting a career path. We all need to find what we enjoy but it is also important to know that when you walk out the door with your diploma, there will be a career there for you to pursue.
Career exploration can be intimidating - hopefully this page can be a place to start looking and considering your options. There are several resources that can help you.
Want to learn more about your interests and possible careers? Your Naviance account is a fantastic place to start! From your Naviance homepage, select the "Self-Discovery" tab at the top and the "Self-Discovery Home". From there you can you can do interest inventories, self-exploration, and career exploration.
Probably the most important resource is:
The Dept of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook:
This site provides helpful articles, as well as a detailed listing of every
occupation's requirements, pay & demand.
An interesting site that ranks colleges by their average starting salary, mid-career salary, and job satisfaction can be found at www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2013/full-list-of-schools. You can also explore salaries for different majors and there is a college-selector tool. Definitely worth exploring!
Interested in engineering? It is an excellent field with amazing job prospects right now! Visit http://typesofengineeringdegrees.org/ to get ideas on what you could do with an engineering degree.
Link to an article with the 10 Best College Majors for a lucrative career:
An article with information to consider:
The scariest word in the economy right now is the word routine. Anything that is routine is disappearing from this country; and routine is work you can reduce to a spec sheet, to a script, to a formula, to a series of steps that has a right answer. If you can write down the steps and it has a right answer, someone can take that work, send the script or the spec sheet overseas and have someone overseas give you the right answer for a lot less.
The thing is certain kinds of work that middle class moms and dads in this country told their kids to do is routine, like certain kinds of accounting...certain kinds of law is routine, certain kinds of financial analysis is routine. So, in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate, and that delivers on these new imperatives of this very abundant age.
...Do something that's hard to outsource and hard to automate, but then ultimately it's really about following your intrinsic motivation, and doing it is, sort of figuring out your purpose, what are you here to do, what are you uniquely good at. And then, I would actually add to that the importance of doing it persistently, being dogged. I think that there are massive returns to doggedness.
Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind