NCcareers.org is an amazing resource to explore and fine tune your career interests.

Reality Check - a fun online tool designed to estimate the income necessary to support your desired lifestyle. State where you’d like to live in North Carolina and how you spend your money. From there, you’ll be directed to jobs that meet your financial needs. This tool helps young adults understand the estimated expenses for housing, transportation, lifestyle, healthcare, savings, and much more!

Interest Finder - The Interest Finder measures interests in each of the six Holland RIASEC types. By answering questions, you will learn more about your personality type and discover which career fields align best with your personality type.  Are you a Thinker, Doer, Creator, Helper, Persuader, or Organizer?

Career Cluster Match - Uncover which Career Clusters match your combination of work, skill, and academic interests.

Be Your Own Boss - See if you're ready to start your dream business. This short survey is designed to test your readiness by asking about the key characteristics, conditions, qualities, and skills found in successful entrepreneurs. 

Skill Matcher - Thinking about pursuing a career immediately after high school?  This assessment helps you analyze your skills in a variety of work areas.

Work Value Sorter - This assessment can help you learn more about your work values and can help you decide what is important to you in a job. It does this by asking you to rank different aspects of work that represent six important work values. Knowing your work values can help you decide what kinds of jobs and careers you might want to explore. When you complete the assessment, you will get scores for six work values. 

This resource is DENSE, but incredibly resourceful!  Once you have an idea of a profession that you may be interested in, find that profession on the A-Z Index linked above to learn more about that specific career.  

This website provides information and data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides the follow details on EVERY career:

• Job Summary

• What They Do

• Work Environment

• How to Become One

• Pay

• Job Outlook & Projected Employment Trends

• State & Area specific data

• & Similar Occupations