Career & Education

Explore Career Options

  • My Next Move [English] [Español] 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.

  • Career One Stop [Link] CareerOneStop is your source for employment information and inspiration. The place to manage your career and your pathway to career success. You can find tools to help job seekers, students, businesses and career professionals. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook [Link] This website is the Nation′s premier source for career information! The profiles featured here cover hundreds of occupations and describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment projections for the 2010–20 decade.

  • Learn How to Become [Link] LearnHowToBecome.org began in late 2013 with Doug and Wes. Our mission is to help students (or other aspiring professionals) understand what it takes to land their perfect career, from picking the right school all the way to climbing the company ladder. We are passionate about creating a one-stop, comprehensive resource that can guide individuals through each of the steps they need to take to begin, further, or change their career path.

Free Local Education

  • Literacy Council of Reading-Berks The Literacy Council of Reading-Berks serves two audiences — adults and businesses — and offers classes, workshops, one-on-one tutoring, and off-site training. When people come to us, they’re committed to making a change, and they’re ready to do the work. We have helped thousands of adults reach their goals. Our programs are proven effective and focus on four positive outcomes to ensure that our students can: Read and Write Proficiently, Become a Productive Citizen, Prepare for Work, Achieve Success on the Job

  • Reading Public Library [Currently no free classes due to pandemic]

  • Reading Area Community College (RACC) [Currently no free classes due to pandemic]

Free or Low Cost Online Education

  • Khan Academy Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is to provide "a free world-class education for anyone anywhere". The website supplies a free online collection of more than 4,500 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science.

  • Open Culture Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content — it’s all here. Open Culture was founded in 2006.

  • University of the People – The world's first tuition-free online university University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free, degree-granting online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally for all qualified individuals, despite financial, geographic or societal constraints. Small fee for exams.