Tennessee Career Information delivery system - http://www.tcids.utk.edu/   In cooperation with The Tennessee Dept. of Education Division of Vocational-Technical Education

Occupational Outlook Handbook - Published by the US Dept of Labor, the Handbook gives detailed information on several hundred different careers.

DDESS Career Planning page has many helpful links.  http://www.ddess.org/Pages/studentlinks_careerplanning.htm 

OCAC Career Camps - Information on great opportunities for summer career camps at the Henry Doorly Zoo, Lauritzen Gardens and the Joslyn Art Museum. Check it out! Application can be downloaded.

Planning a Career - This site has one of the best overall career planning strategies available on the web. It is divided into sections for high school, middle school and college students, as well as a section for school counselors.

The Career Key - Measures how similar you are to six personality types and how these relate to different jobs. You are then encouraged to explore them using the Occupational Outlook Handbook. It is fun, free, and may help you figure out the direction you should take.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter This personality inventory organizes your answers to approximately 60 questions into four personality types. More information is given about temperament, and gives the personality types of famous people. Very interesting site.

Career Profiles Index - Alpha list of hundreds of careers with descriptions that include education/training, wages, job outlook and more. Great site!

Coolworks  - Jobs in National Parks and other cool places! Great site to find the perfect summer job in a vacation spot!

Summer Opportunities - There are thousands of summer jobs, camps, and volunteer programs listed here. It is a page from Peterson's (College and Career Info).

The Student Conservation Association 
The SCA provides expense-paid internships for college kids to work in US Forests, National Parks and Wildlife Refuges on conservation projects. It provides 15 - 19 year olds with volunteer opportunities.

Outward Bound Program - A wilderness challenge for the adventuresome.

Commercial links:
Monster.com 
CareerPaths Online
Fedworld.gov  
Career Magazine 
Careers.org 
JobBank USA 
Headhunter.Net 
"The Catapult" 

America's Job Bank

Princeton Review - Go straight to the "career search" on this site. It has a fairly large database of careers that start with "A day in the life of ..."

Career Interests Game  (U. of Missouri) 
This quick exercise is based on Holland's theory that people and work environments can be classified into six different groups: Realistic, Investigative, Social, Artistic, Enterprising, or Conventional. Check it out!

Job Shadow Day - coming up in February...many local businesses participate.

University Career Centers - They're all here!

Job Hunters Bible - From the author of "What Color is my Parachute", Dick Bolles, this site is designed as a supplement to his book. Lots of very practical information here!

Resumania **** (University of Minnesota)-
Get help with writing your resume here! This step-by step-tutorial contains some excellent examples of three different types of resumes and walks you through the process of writing a resume.

U.S. Military  - Direct links to all the armed forces recruiting websites.

Military Career Guide Online - Want to find out lots of factual information about what it is like to be in the different branches of the Armed Forces? Then this is your site. Very helpful information here!

Bureau of Labor Statistics  - Largest resource on labor information available on the web. If you are doing a term paper and need stats on anything related to jobs/careers, this is it!

Career Education Information

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