Career Exploration

Resources for Practitioners, Students, and Families: 

• Virtual Job Shadow (paid subscription required): An online career exploration platform that provides career information, resources, and tools for students, teachers, job seekers, and career changers. The platform includes interactive career videos, informative career articles, and job search tools. VirtualJobShadow.com also offers a variety of career guidance services.

• Holland Code Interest Assessment: An assessment that can help students explore potential careers based on their skills, interests, or values. Check out this Holland Code  assessments, the RIASEC test. 

• JobShadow.com: The site features thousands of interviews with professionals from a variety of fields, giving users an inside look into different industries and career paths. 

• My Next Move by U.S. Department of Labor: Provides career exploration resources for job seekers, students, veterans, and career changers. It includes a job search tool that matches users with occupations based on skills, interests, and experience. It also provides resources for career exploration such as career profiles, salary information, job postings, and labor market information.

• Roadtrip Nation:  Find career exploration tools, videos, podcast, and other resources. 

• University of Kentucky Academic Exploration Tool: This tool provides students with major options to consider.  

• U.S. Department of Labor Training Provider Results: Find Training Programs: Compare Completion Rates, Employment Rates, and More

• YouScience (paid subscription required): An online interest inventory that helps students discover their passions and aptitudes. It is designed to help students identify their natural abilities and interests and use that information to make informed decisions about their academic and career paths. 

Exemplars: 

• College Forward Resources for Career Exploration: A career exploration tool for students and families in Texas. 

• Guide to Graduation, College, and Career for Students and Families (District of Columbia Public Schools): An example guide developed by DCPS that provides key information on topics such as high school graduation requirements, college and career pathways, financial aid and scholarship opportunities, and community resources.