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Career Exploration Updated on September 19, 2009

ASVAB The ASVAB Career Exploration Program is a comprehensive career exploration and planning program that includes a multiple aptitude test battery, an interest inventory, and various career planning tools designed to help students explore the world of work. The ASVAB Career Exploration Program is intended for use with students in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades, as well as students in post-secondary schools. The Program provides tools, including the test battery and interest inventory, developed by the Department of Defense to help high school and post-secondary students across the nation learn more about career exploration and planning. Results of the aptitude test and the interest inventory enable students to evaluate their skills, estimate performance in academic and vocational endeavors, and identify potentially satisfying careers. These results are integrated with work values to help students identify and prioritize possible career choices. Students are encouraged to consider their own work-related values and other important personal preferences as they explore the world of work and learn career exploration skills that will benefit them throughout their work lives. The Career Cruiser The CAREER CRUISER is a career exploration publication. It provides self-assessment activities to assist students in thinking about the relationship between personal interests and career goals. Charts display sample occupations in 16 career clusters. Occupational descriptions, average earnings, and minimum educational level required for the job are also listed. Career Explorer Looking for your dream career? Let Career Explorer help you find the perfect career for you. Learn about salary ranges for today's hottest careers and search for the best training schools in your area. Choices Planner In order to plan their future, students need to make many choices about working and learning. With so many options, it's easy to get overwhelmed with information. We give students easy-to-use, interactive tools to help them find the answers. Using Choices Planner, students can compare, connect and choose from a vast network of work and learning options -- effortlessly building powerful plans. With the Choices Planner, you can: Assess: Interests Skills Values Explore: Careers Educational programs Financial aid Develop: Career plan/portfolio Resume Locate: Job openings New Instructions for Florida Choices Planner College, Career, and Life Planning Tools/Resources Available On This Website: Exercises and illustrations to assist parents/teachers in helping students understand the value of college and career planning. Information about college selection, college admissions, financial aid and choosing a major. Easy access via hyperlinks to other excellent college planning resources on the Web. Sample Power Point presentations for teachers to introduce career planning to students in a classroom environment. Step by step instructions for career planning: Tools to identify careers that fit your interests, abilities and needs Tools to evaluate your career prospects Access to hundreds of occupational summaries and videos to facilitate the evaluation of your career options Tools for evaluating/comparing career options Career Planning Program Kit for teachers/administrators to implement (or enhance) a program at your high school. Information on hundreds of careers and industries. Explanation of the importance of picking an attractive industry and a “winning” company for employment. Tools (including evaluation criteria and information sources) for identifying attractive industries and "winning" companies. Easy access via hyperlinks to other excellent career planning resources on the Web. Tools for Life Planning (e.g. budgeting, investments, credit, home purchase, retirement). Easy access via hyperlinks to other excellent life planning resources on the Web. Preview Employ Florida Martketplace The new Employ Florida Marketplace (EFM) is a powerful, easy-to-use online tool that can help students: Find out what kinds of jobs are available and where those jobs are in Florida Research job-related information, such as salaries Assess their job skills Find out what education or training they might need Create a perfect resume and cover letter Apply for jobs online Executive Internship Program (EIP) The Executive Internship Program (EIP) embodies some of the best elements of both traditional and contemporary approaches to education. EIP is a marriage of the theoretical and the practical, combining the best elements of classroom theory with actual experience in the world of professionals; it is academically oriented education based on experience. Through the Executive Internship Program, students are assisted academically and experientially in developing skills which promote self-directed learning, self awareness, goal setting, creative problem solving, and cross cultural sensitivity. EIP represents a strong response to the present day search for expanded educational options. JETS - Junior Engineering Technical Society What do you like to do? Make it happen with engineering! Discover how your interests today can become your dream career of tomorrow. Occupational Outlook Handbook For hundreds of different types of jobs — such as teacher, lawyer, and nurse — the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you: the training and education needed earnings expected job prospects what workers do on the job working conditions In addition, the Handbook gives you job search tips, links to information about the job market in each State, and more. Ways to use the Occupational Outlook Handbook site: (1) To find out about a specific occupation or topic, use the Search box that is on every page—enter your search term in the box. (2) To find out about many occupations, browse through listings using the Occupations links that are on the right side of each page. (3) For a listing of all occupations in alphabetical order, go to the A-Z Index and select a letter. About the Handbook: 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 years. O*NET OnLine The O*NET system serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations. The O*NET database houses this data and O*NET OnLine provides easy access to that information. Parent Primer on Career Exploration The PARENT PRIMER, a 20-page booklet, provides up-to-date information on changes taking place in education and the workplace along with strategies for parents to use when advising their teens. Pinellas County Schools Workforce Education The mission of the Office of Workforce Education is to support highest student achievement through career preparation and lifelong learning. The attached chart shows the location of Career & Technical programs in Pinellas County high schools. Clicking on the Program Title will show you the course plan for all four years of high school. In addition, you will see the possible paths you may take after high school to get you into a variety of careers. Clicking on any of the links will give you further information. Pinellas County Tech Prep Consortium Tech Prep is a rigorous technical and academic curriculum that includes: _ 4 years of high school, focusing on the career area in the junior & senior year + 2 years of community college or technical school = 6 year program...Associate of Science Degree or Technical Certification A Tech Prep Associate Degree prepares students to go straight to work, or to pursue a bachelor's degree, or, as is becoming more and more common, both. Tech Prep is a school-to-careers partnership between education and business that prepares young people for today's skilled workforce. This partnership involves high schools, colleges, large & small businesses, governmental agencies -- all working together! Tech Prep relies on the business/education connection to design job-specific curricula to prepare students for occupations currently in demand and for those projected to be in demand. The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 [Sec. 202(a)(3)(A-F)] specifies that the term tech prep program means a program of study that: Combines at a minimum two years of secondary education with a minimum of two years of postsecondary education in a nonduplicative, sequential course of study; Integrates academic and technical instruction and utilizes work-based and worksite learning where appropriate and available; Provides technical preparation in a career field such as engineering technology, applied science, a mechanical, industrial, or practical art or trade, agriculture, health occupations, business, or applied economics; Builds student competence in mathematics, science, reading, writing, communications, economics, and workplace skills through applied, contextual academics, and integrated instruction, in a coherent sequence of courses; Leads to an associate or a baccalaureate degree or a postsecondary certificate in a specific career field; and Leads to placement in appropriate employment or to further education. Virtual Mentor The Virtual Mentor Project is a partnership between education and industry for use with any career education curriculum at the middle and high school level. Virtual Mentor is used to provide information about careers and related educational opportunities in high schools, technical schools, and colleges. Volunteer mentors provide real-world information and advice about careers as well as participate in forums that could include anything from general topics to specific classroom projects.