Career Exploration

This resource has short interviews with North Bay residents who work in the industries that are important in Sonoma County. This resource emphasizes local career opportunities.

This resource, provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is a great way to learn more about a career you are interested in. 

Each entry has information on "What they do" "How to become one," as well as "Pay" and "Outlook." 

You can search by career name or occupational group, or browse by "Highest Paying" or "Fastest Growing." 

This resource, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, has information on many careers that you can search many different ways.

You can search by groups, such as "Green Economy" and "STEM," or by interests or skills.

Each entry gives detailed information, such as what tech skills and education is required. In addition, they provide links to sources for more information on each entry and indicate if the field has a "Bright Outlook" for future job seekers.

Career Exploration in Naviance

Naviance also has many career exploration tools, such as RoadTrip Nation and Career Cluster searching. This is available through your Rapid Identity (my.crpusd.org). Highlights of Naviance tools can be found on our Naviance page.

This online tool assembled a comprehensive set of tools and resources to assist you in preparing for this upcoming transition. We can help you decide which colleges to apply to and which careers to consider. We can help you decide which majors to look into if you're planning on going to college. We can even help you better understand how your unique composition of personality, interests, skills and values might affect your ultimate career preferences.

Use this tool to research different majors and careers.

myplan.com/timeline/high_school.php 

This online tool provides outlines of how to achieve career goals. Curious what degrees or training is needed to start working in a certain career? Search it here!

https://www.learnhowtobecome.org/ 

This podcast features interviews with experts on many career-related topics.