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job prospects in a wide range of occupations." You can order the handbook online, and you can view
individual sections of handbook online if you have Adobe
Acrobat Reader installed on your computer; the Reader can be downloaded if
necessary.
Quintessential Careers has a special area for Teen
College, Career, and Job-Related Articles.
Would you like to know more about military careers?
Visit armedforcescareers.com.
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington has a
segment in their Web site called What
Can I Do With A Major In ...? Information
on over 40 majors is available.
North Carolina State University provides an excellent
online career assessment service called the
career key.
America's
Career InfoNet: Find wages and employment
trends, occupational requirements, state by state labor
market conditions, millions of employer contacts
nationwide, and the most extensive career resource library
online.
Career
Centers Around the Globe: List
provides links to career development services at many
different universities.
Career
Currents: A different
career is profiled every day on this site. It covers the
work, the people, some basic facts about employment in
that field, and the education or training you need for
career success. It focuses on careers in the US and Canada.
You can subscribe to a newsletter with more of the same
information in an email format.
Career
Fitter: Working
in an unfulfilling career is a defeating and unrewarding
experience; this can be the result of poor early career
decisions. CareerFitter
offers an online Career Personality Assessment that
may help you in identify careers that best fit your
personality. This is a fee-based, but low
cost, service.
Visit
True Careers.
See their Career
Profiles for a description of many careers. And,
their Industry
Profiles provide a long term outlook for the various
career fields.
The decision to attend college usually coincides with at
least a preliminary or tentative decision about a career
and college major or a conviction that you want to
continue your education and will be able to make a
decision on a college major as you go through your
freshman year in college, taking some of the general
freshmen requirements. But, of course, as you
proceed through your freshman year and into the second
year, you inevitably reach the point where continued
indecision about a major will surely result in having to
accumulate more credit hours to graduate than would have
been necessary if you had made an early decision.
And, obviously, this will increase the cost of obtaining
your degree, and delay the time when you are able to start
earning money in that initial career path after college.
Don't feel discouraged from
commencing college studies because you have not made
a definite decision on a major. You are not alone.
Career/college major decisions are difficult decisions,
probably more difficult than ever because of the
increasing complexity of the world in which we live. So,
take advantage of as many resources you can - both
traditional (counselors, aptitude tests, printed sources,
talks with family, friends and persons with actual
experience in certain fields) and Internet - as long as
you feel a need to clarify you interests. And, keep
in mind that even after choosing a certain major in
college and getting a degree in that major, you may have
some options about how you want to apply your education
after graduation. In other words, not everyone gets
a job directly related to their college degree, but, of
course, deviation from your academic field could result in
slower initial progression in your post-academic career.
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