Highly recommended as a place to begin searching. Published by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. Has short descriptions of hundreds of careers, giving required training, likely salary, growth potential, and more.
List of careers with job descriptions, salary statistics, education and training information, and more.
Huge amounts of information--specific jobs, information on resumes and job searching, educational opportunities, worker and employer legal rights and regulations, links to many other related web sites. Funded by the U.S. government.
A tool to help pick out your career, not just a job.
A site from the U.S. Department of Labor. Gives standardized descriptions of hundreds of jobs. You can search it by the name of a specific job or by general work areas or by skills.
National Opportunity NOCs: Nonprofit Organization Classifieds
A nationwide listing of jobs in nonprofit organizations. Also, the Career Center and Nonprofit Library have excellent lists of links to related web sites
Free salary results based on college, location and other factors
Research Career Fields/USA Gov
Find research information and videos about different career fields.
Find careers that relate to your interests and learn fun facts about the economy and jobs.
Offers video introductions to hundreds of careers, lists jobs that pay the highest, hire the most, or have the most room for growth, and a salary calculator that figures out average salaries in cities all around the country.
This aptitude test can help you gain insight into the careers that best fit your personality. It will help you learn what kind of work environments and occupations suit you best.
Did you know color can be an indicator of what jobs are right for you? Color Quiz is a quick and easy five-minute test that analyzes your personality based on the colors you select.
This test helps you to understand your personality type and discover what type of temperament you have. Test results suggest a predominant personality type including Artisan, Guardian, Rational, or Idealist that influences career satisfaction, job search strategies, and job performance. A free description of your profile will be provided with an option to purchase the full report.
My Next Move’s O*NET Interest Profiler is administered by the United States Department of Labor. Users take a 60-question interest inventory that yields a profile of interest tendencies including six areas: Realistic, Investigative, Social, Enterprising, Conventional, and Artistic. You will see a list of careers related to each cluster, and can then sort those careers into five job zones representing different levels of preparation ranging from little job preparation to extensive preparation.
The Department of Labor has developed this resource to enable users to assess the skills they want to incorporate into their careers. You will rate basic skills like reading, writing, speaking, scientific reasoning, and critical thinking, as well as more specialized social, technical, analytical, computer, problem-solving, and resource management skills.