Career & College Resources

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Career Resources

	Adventures in Education has college planning resources, financial aid information, career guidance, and money management tips to help families and students achieve their goals.
	Are you looking for opportunities to work, travel, play, learn, help, create, experience and grow in the U.S. or abroad? Come explore, dream, discover and do with Backdoorjobs.com: Short-Term Job Adventures!
	Career Builder is a comprehensive job board, with options to search by industry, company, or even in Spanish. It is free for job seekers.
	The Career Forward course is a self-contained online learning course that may be used in companion with a variety of online career planning tools to provide students with the opportunity to assess their career interests, explore career options and create an educational development plan.
	Career Isle resources have been created to enhance the career guidance and counseling efforts in grades K-12. The resources are provided to assist with career awareness, career exploration, and career preparation of students with the objective of facilitating a successful transition into post-secondary opportunities and the 21st century global workplace.
	Career Overview offers a comprehensive career and job search resources guide.
Career Planning	The Career Center from California State University at Chico has produced the Career Planning site. They assist students through all phases of career development to bridge the transition between the academic environment and the world of work.
	Career Zone is the place to explore careers related to your strengths, skills, and talents.
	For years CareerSearchDatabase.com has been assisting aspiring career professionals, job seekers and students make better, more informed career choices by providing them with highly relevant, reliable and up-to-date career information and job search resources. With many thousands of daily visitors CareerSearchDatabase.com is now one of the premier career and job search websites on the Internet.
	Search Careers.org to investigate more than 150,000 pages about jobs and occupations, online degrees and universities, and entrepreneurial opportunities from the #1 site for career resources in the United States, Canada and across the world.
	Dice is a large job board exclusively for tech job seekers and hirers. Dice is one of the first places to look for listings, and it’s free for job seekers.
	Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television, in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the typical employees
	Fun Jobs connects people who love their work and employer's who love their people! It also features information on different jobs.
	Fun Works is about careers. Not just the interesting ones other people have, but the ones YOU can have.
Job Application Form	The Free Sample Job Application Form is a simple two page document that provides a fill-in-the-blank form that can be used for collecting information about job applicants.
Job Descriptions	Job Descriptions is a free resource that provides you with job descriptions and job details. Our site currently contains over 13,000 job descriptions, divided into major categories, then divisions and finally into groups.
	Job Hunters Bible is designed as a supplement both to the annual, What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, as well as to the new 100 page book, The Job-Hunters’ Survival Guide: How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work, Even When ‘There Are No Jobs.”
	Job Profiles is your online destination for choosing your career path. We've created a multitude of job descriptions that describe each career path and what to expect from each.
LEECA's Career Page	This site features sites from Leeca's Career Page to help you find the career that best suits you.
	Mapping Your Future is your free resource for career, college, financial aid, and money management information. Their goal is to help individuals achieve life-long success by empowering students, families, and schools with web-based information and services.
	Monster is one of the first well known job boards. It remains a good resource for job seekers. Post a resume, get career advice, or troll through the job listings. It is free for job seekers.
	Myfuture offers information on today's military, career tools, jobs, college credit and opportunities.
	The National Center for Education Statistics is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
	At the Next Generation Zone you will find information about education, careers, and employment opportunities.
	The Ohio Career Information System * (OCIS ) provides national, state & local information on occupations, training & education, and financial aid.
	Perkins IV encourages states and local programs to provide access for students (and parents, as appropriate) to information regarding career awareness and planning with respect to an individual’s occupational and academic future; and provide information with respect to career options, financial aid, and postsecondary options, including baccalaureate degree programs.
	The Riley Guide introduces you to the online job search, listing many online sites and services that are useful for your job search.
	Toolbox is only for information technology job seekers and hirers. To search job postings, users must post a resume on the site.
	The University of Southern California produced the USC Career Center site which offers resources that will help you prepare for your job search and identify potential employment opportunities.
	The Vocational Information Center website is an education directory that provides links to online resources for career exploration, technical education, workforce development.
	The Yahoo Careers job board has links to a great set of salary wizards and other resources.
	Young Workers provides safety and health information for the young worker and others. It answers questions often asked by the working teen. It details workers' rights and responsibilities, and links to training and other educational tools. You can look over your State's youth employment laws, too.

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Financial Aid Resources

	ACT is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides a broad array of assessment, research, information, and program management solutions in the areas of education and workforce development.
	Adventures in Education has college planning resources, financial aid information, career guidance, and money management tips to help families and students achieve their goals.
	Careers & Colleges.com, an Alloy Education interactive property, is the premier college, scholarship, and career search site on the web. We provide tools for college-bound and current college students to assist in their college planning efforts.
	The Career Exploration Center at the Learning Curve is from the University of Texas. It assists undergraduate and graduate students in the exploration and clarification of their majors and careers. We are committed to providing student-centered counseling, assessments, education programs, on-site and on-line resources that empower students in the pursuit of their career goals.
	The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
	The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the College Board is composed of more than 5,700 schools, colleges, universities and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,800 colleges through major programs and services in college readiness, college admission, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning.
	College is Possible is the American Council on Education's (ACE) K–16 youth development program. It motivates middle and high school students from undeserved communities to seek a college education. ACE partnered with 47 member institutions around the country to build a bridge between colleges and universities and their local K-12 community with commitment at the executive level
	Free application for federal student aide are offered on the federal site.
	FastWeb has been the leading scholarship search provider for every student, whether you’re in high school or a mother of two returning to school. One in eight high school seniors use FastWeb, and the site comes recommended by over 16,000 high schools and 3,600 colleges.
	Fin Aid is an award-winning site has grown into the most comprehensive source of student financial aid information, advice and tools -- on or off the web.
	Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates is dedicated to changing lives for the better through higher education. We work with schools, lenders, and community organizations to help millions of people pay for college and build brighter futures. Great Lakes provides financial, educational, and operational support at every stage of the educational journey. This support increases access to higher education, simplifies the delivery of financial aid, prepares students for success, and helps borrowers successfully repay their student loans.
	The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two yearsand is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics..
	The mission of the Ohio Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators shall be to ensure access to higher education through the promotion of financial aid awareness.
	Peterson's Education Center has a financial aid database of nearly $5 billion worth of scholarships, grants, and prizes and is fully searchable on the Web and available in printed guides.
	The Princeton Review helps students, parents, and educators achieve the best results at every stage of their educational careers.
Scholaraid	Scholaraid offers college scholarships, grants and educational financial aid package loans, application tips and information,
	Student Loan Funding coordinates and deliver the resources needed to empower students to earn a college degree. What's more is that we're part of a great family. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sallie Mae, the nation's leading provider of education funding, we can offer an unparalleled breadth of resources and expert service from start to finish.
	Toolbox is only for information technology job seekers and hirers. To search job postings, users must post a resume on the site.
	Find a collection of sites about scholarships, fellowships, student grants and loans, as well as financial planning ideas for saving for college at the Yahoo Financial Aid page.

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Career Inventories

About.com Career tools	Use one of the free self assessment tools at About.com Career Tools to help you discover the careers for which you are best suited.
	Career Assessment offers MAPP, a world-class personal assessment that takes 15 minutes to complete. MAPP identifies your true motivations toward work and allows you to match yourself to job categories to see where you best fit.
	Finding a career that you'll enjoy can help you look forward to going to work every day! By recognizing and using your strengths, you can also open the door to professional opportunities. With Career Explorer's aptitude test, you will be asked questions - about your hobbies, your talents and what you enjoy doing. Your answers will help them determine your skills and interests - and find a career field that matches them.
	Whatever your dreams, Career Tests can help you learn more about success, leadership, aptitudes and more to see if you're on the right path, or perhaps suggest an alternate route!
	Career Zone is the place to explore careers related to your strengths, skills, and talents.
	The Princeton Review helps students, parents, and educators achieve the best results at every stage of their educational careers.
	Spend some time at Quintessential Careers and take one or more of the following self-assessment tests to give you a better idea of your attitudes and interests as they relate to possible career choices. Read Online Career Assessments: Helpful Tools of Self-Discovery for more information about how best to use these assessments. And, finally, read our Career Assessment Do's and Don'ts for useful tips and advice.

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College Information

	The AACC represents and advocates for more than 1,200 associate-degree granting institutions enrolling more than 12 million students.
	Careers and Colleges.com, an Alloy Education interactive property, is the premier college, scholarship, and career search site on the web. We provide tools for college-bound and current college students to assist in their college planning efforts.
	Produced by the United States Department of Education, College Navigator helps you navigate colleges and universities around the country.
	College Profiles is a directory of colleges and universities around the country.
	College Toolkit.com goes beyond traditional scholarship search sites to provide students with superior search capabilities and direct access to online scholarship applications! College Toolkit is a valuable resource for everyone involved in the scholarship process. They have compiled an extensive database of scholarship opportunities for students to search, and are currently helping scholarship-granting organizations to move their applications online.
	Ed Ref College Search Directory provides free detailed information on thousands of US colleges, universities, and post-secondary trade schools. School information includes admission requirements, degrees & majors, contact info, test scores, student diversity, religious affiliations, athletics, tuition expenses, and more.
	EDU Registry is sponsored by a team of educators and teachers, who hope that they can be a helpful steppingstone to your education future. They have provided this information as a free resource for students who are searching for the perfect school for them.
	The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education is the primary agent for generating scientifically based knowledge, dissemination, professional development, and technical assistance to improve career and technical education in the United States.
	The Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) formulates federal postsecondary education policy and administers programs that address critical national needs in support of our mission to increase access to quality postsecondary education.
	The Princeton Review helps students, parents, and educators achieve the best results at every stage of their educational careers.
U.S. Community Colleges by State	The U.S. Community Colleges by State lists Community colleges in the United States and its territories.
	Xap Corporation’s comprehensive Mentor education and career websites efficiently guide students through the college and career preparation process.