| ACT's Helping Your Child Explore Career Options - An on-line resource for parents that can be used in explaining to parents how one engages in career planning. |
| America's Career InFo Net - Students can find wage and employment trends, occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions, millions of employer contacts nationwide, and the most extensive career resource library online. |
| America’s Career Resource Network (ACRN) Parent’s Guide - Very comprehensive resource site with excellent material and ideas on including and educating parent’s regarding career guidance at each of the three grade levels: K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Contains useful parent’s brochures, finding funding, presentations to parents, library, and links to other parental involvement sites. |
| Ask An Expert - This is a student friendly expert site where real world experts have volunteered to answer questions for free. There is an expert category or students can do a keyword search. Features a diverse group of professionals who serve as a great resource for student and educators. |
| Bridges CX-98 - This is an Internet career development system that requires a subscription. (It is described in the 9-12 resource section.) |
| CAPS, COPS, AND COPES - These three career assessments are a part of the COPS System. COPS is an interest inventory and has multiple forms. CAPS is an ability assessment measuring ability in areas such as mechanical reasoning, spatial relations, and manual speed and dexterity. COPES is values survey measuring values related to scales such as independence vs. conformity, leadership vs. supportive, orderliness vs. flexibil |
| Career Education Tools for Teachers - This website is loaded with resources for all grade levels, assessments, career links for students and teachers. |
| Career Exploration on the Internet - This is a catalog of sites for Middle School Teachers and Students, with a collection of career exploration sites. |
| Career Game, The (Explorer Edition) - This workbook, based on Holland’s model, combines self-discovery and job matching skills. Students reflect on their hobbies, heroes, and personal interests combining this information with a user-friendly assessment. It is written at a reading level making it appropriate for sixth graders. |
| Career Information for Kids - Information from the OOH presented in a student-friendly format. There is a teacher’s guide. Students can explore jobs based on their career interests. |
| Career Kids Links - Career Kids has compiled a list of great web sites that you will find very informative and helpful. |
| Career Opportunities News - This bi-monthly newsletter will help you keep up with employment issues, career resources, and trend in the labor market. It publishes articles on current trends in the workplace, spotlight articles on specific careers, a guide to on-line resources, and women and minority issues and resources. |
| Career Pro News - Offers free trial use of Bridges as well as other useful career links. |
| Career Speaker's Guide - Contact your local consortium for this or a similar resource. Counselors in the Midlands area can contact the Central Midlands Career Partnership |
| Career Targets - This is a career exploration and educational planning workbook suitable for use with individuals or groups. It is organized into three sections: Interest inventory, Career Clusters; Getting a Job. It is available from SCOIS. Coin Educational Products, 3361 Executive Parkway, Suite 302, Toledo, Ohio 43606, 1-800-274-8515 |
| Career World Magazine - This is a Weekly Reader magazine, containing practical material for making informed college, career, and vocational/technical choices. It contains information on the latest job market trends as well as other valuable career related information. |
| CareerOneStop - The new CareerOneStop portal website connects users to relevant links, career planning resources, and community services as well as the core products of America’s Job Bank, America’s Career InfoNet, O*NET Online, and Workforce Tools of the Trade. |
| Carolina Careers - Carolina Careers is South Carolina’s integrated network of career education programs, projects, activities, and organizations. It has a virtual career fair and much more. |
| Center on Education and Work Resource Guide - The University of Wisconsin’s Center on Education and Work markets an abundance of career development activities and interactive resources for grades 6-8. |
| Character Education - Character education and career education are partners when teaching students responsible work and life behaviors. |
| CHOICES Education Group - CHOICES offers a seminar that connects education to careers that is presented by trained corporate executives in the classroom. Includes segments on self- and career awareness, decision-making, money management, and goal setting. |
| COIN Education Products - Contains a complete career guidance system on the Internet, as well as Spanish versions. Many can be ordered through SCOIS. |
| CPP, Inc. - Description: Formerly Consulting Psychologists Press, CPP, Inc. has been a leading publisher and provider of innovative products and services for professionals focused on meeting individual and organizational development needs. Site contains career management resources, publications and assessments (including Strong and MBTI). |
| Department of Labor – Office of Disability Employment Policy - The site contains a series of fact sheets covering issues of interest regarding individuals with disabilities. |
| Developmental Guidance Classroom Activities - This book is designed for use with the National Career Developmental Guidelines. It provides teacher/counselor classroom or group career development activities for various curriculum areas. Available from SCOIS. |
| DISCOVER - ACT’s computer-based career guidance and information system provides step-by-step guidance and detailed information to help users make important career and educational decisions. |
| Diversity and Equality Exercises - See Developmental Guidance Classroom Activities for sample activities. |
| EdiTS - Career Guidance section contains resources such as the COPES, CAPS, COPES assessments, large copy and Spanish versions of assessments, cluster charts, counselor packages, and Career Briefs Kit. Resources supported by periodical newsletter, EdiTS Research and Developments. |
| Enter Here Video Series - This video series introduces viewers to challenging entry-level jobs in all clusters. They provide information about the career, the abilities, education, and soft skills necessary to be successful. Student and teacher guides are included. |
| EPAS – ACT’s Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) - This resource system is designed for grades 8-12 and enables a district to organize career guidance around the components of assessment, student planning, instructional support, and evaluation. It uses EXPLORE, PLAN, and WORK KEYS. |
| Eureka Career Information System - EUREKA Career Information System has been made available on the Internet. Historically available only to Californians, EUREKA contains True Colors, MicroSkills, occupational descriptions and filters, and career assessments (available in Spanish). |
| Ferguson’s K-8 Career Resources - This catalog provides a wide variety of career information and resources relating to career awareness, career exploration, and school-to-work topics. It provides useful tips to establish, vitalize, and sustain your school-to-work program. |
| Focus on Your Future - These unique career-planning materials address sex-role stereotyping and encourage nontraditional career exploration. Instructor’s notes, handouts, activities, and overheads are cross-indexed with related CEW publications, including the Career Options Planner, Career Options Portfolio, and the Developmental Guidance Classroom Activities. |
| Free & Inexpensive Career Materials - The latest edition of this directory lists more than 700 sources of free or inexpensive career materials and is an ideal resource for students and counselors. They have also updated each entry to include all available web sites and e-mail addresses. |
| Gateway - This is a good resource for educators. It includes lesson plans and information on all types of educational resources. Career exploration is included. |
| GEAR-UP Early Awareness Program - This is a program for seventh graders which helps students develop self awareness and confidence as they explore careers and set personal, educational, and career goals. Participating schools benefit from career fairs, mentoring programs, homeroom and classroom activities. It is available for qualifying schools through the Commission on Higher Education. 888-200-0562 |
| Going Right On GrO - Going Right On (GrO) is an interactive multimedia program designed to encourage seventh, eighth and ninth graders to start thinking about going to college. GrO contains valuable information that every student should see. It will inspire students to dream about going to college and gives them basic information they'll need to get started on the right track. |
| Guide to Internet Resources - Check this site – pages for students, teachers, media specialists, and anyone else who is interested to learn about the world of work, and what to do to prepare for it. Click on the links to find answers to your questions, learn facts and figures, and learn ways to teach about careers. Loaded with middle school website links – 60 or more with a description of each site. This website was created by |
| HEAP - The Higher Education Awareness Program is available on CD Rom free from the Commission on Higher Education. It provides useful information to help students plan for high school and postsecondary educational experiences. It provides a link to all two and four year colleges in the State of South Carolina. |
| Holland Self-Directed Search - This is a career assessment that helps students identify areas of occupational interests, based on Holland’s six personality types, realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. There are multiple versions at various reading levels. Available from SCOIS. |
| Job Corps - Job Corps is the nation's largest and most comprehensive residential education and job training program for at-risk youth, ages 16 through 24. Since 1964, the program has provided more than 1.9 million disadvantaged young people with the integrated academic, vocational, and social skills training they need to gain independence and get quality, long-term jobs or further their education. |
| Job Profiles - A career exploration website that provides job profiles from experienced workers. It covers the personal side of work. Experienced workers share rewards of their job, stressful parts of the job, basis skills the job demands, challenges of the future and advice on entering the field. |
| Junior Achievement - Junior Achievement (JA) is passionate people inspiring kids to learn the economics of life through free enterprise education. JA enables caring business professionals to share their experience with students to show them what it takes to be successful. |
| Lessons in Character - This is a textbook, which could be used for a career exploration class. It combines character education with career exploration. |
| Making Choices - 96 Lesson Plans and Activities are provided in the Curriculum and Student Workbook for Middle School students. They address the realities of adolescent development, parenting, career and life planning and School to Work Transition. Includes optional adolescent pregnancy prevention and experiential learning programs plus special support programs and materials. |
| Mapping Your Future – Planning a Career - This web site provides information for students, parents, and counselors. A student oriented site with a special tab for middle and high school students. Contains information on financial strategies, career options, and college planning. |
| Michigan Occupational Information System - This site offers a complete listing of career clusters and jobs that fall under each cluster. |
| Michigan Occupational System Self-Assessment Career Survey - If you are interested in finding out what careers you might like to pursue, please take a few moments and complete this brief survey of career cluster area interests. |
| Military Career Guide On Line - The Military Career Guide Online is a compendium of military occupational, training, and career information. It is designed for students desiring to explore the military world of work. |
| NASA Quest – Women of NASA - This site was developed to encourage more young women to pursue careers in math, science, and technology. |
| National Dropout Prevention Center - The National Dropout Prevention Center is a strong advocate of service learning as a means of dropout prevention. There are many resources available trough them to help develop meaningful service learning projects. In ‘South Carolina the National Dropout Center is based at Clemson University. |
| NCS Assessments - This company’s website contains numerous assessments that can be used at the middle school level. It also offers software to provide assessment for the interpretation of assessments. |
| New Direction - Provides career information for middle school students. It includes a self-administered questionnaire, web links, career games, etc. This site was developed with an Educate America: Goals 2000 grant awarded by the State of N.J. |
| Newspapers In Education - About 700 newspaper companies provide newspapers to schools in their local areas. This means there are 700 different NIE programs, because there are at least as many ways for an NIE program to operate, as there are combinations of newspapers and communities. Through out the year the newspaper does features related to the career world. |
| O*Net On Line - This large database provides information on occupations by title, Dictionary of Occupational Title code, or job families. There are links to America’s Job Bank and others. Detailed profiles are given for each occupation. |
| Occupational Outlook Handbook-BLS - Published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 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. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions; the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job |
| Prentiss Hall Career Resource Guide - This educational resource company markets a wide variety of career resource books, CD-ROMs, assessments, video libraries, training videos, and training and symposium for counselors. |
| Promoting Positive Values for School and Everyday Life - This book for grades 5-9 includes suggestions for making the most of these ready-made occasions and provides activities for students to consider the importance of adopting positive values. |
| Psychological Assessment Resources - Lists of numerous career interest and development assessments, among them: Career Thoughts Inventory, My Vocational Situation, Self-Directed Search, Vocational Preference inventory. |
| Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.- The Journal of Career Assessment - This quarterly journal provides up to date research on career assessments used in K-12. |
| Quintessential Careers - Teenage Jobs, Careers, and College - Quintessential Careers is a career, job, and college site, offering free expert career and job-hunting advice (through articles, tool, tips, and tutorials), as well as links to all the best job sites. Special sections for teens, college students, and all other job seekers (by industry, geography, and job-seeker type) make this site a comprehensive resource for all. |
| Real Game, The - The Real Game encourages students to understand the relationship between education, occupations and lifestyles. Students plan and budget leisure time, vacation activates, learn about what suits them in the work roles, and experience the effects of changing technology. It is cross –curricular in scope and has been aligned to the core curriculum standards. It is available from SCOIS. |
| Service Learning - Service learning gives students the opportunity to explore career possibilities as they learn and develop through active participation in curriculum related activities. |
| Serving to Learn - This book is available from the State Department of Education. Its subtitle is "Integrating Intergenerational Service Learning Across the Curriculum." It defines service learning and provides suggestions on how to develop service-learning projects. The book contains a wide variety of lesson plans for students in Kindergarten through twelfth grades. Look for the Office of Community Service on the w |
| SkillScan - This resource provides counselors with a card-sort skills assessment to assist with the career decision-making process. Interpretive summary can be stored in student’s career planner. |
| South Carolina Commission on Higher Education - Links to HEAP, GEAR-UP, and other student services. |
| South Carolina Occupational Information System (SCOIS) - This is a website for the South Carolina Occupational Information System. It gives educators an overview of the SCOIS Computer Information Database System as well as other career development materials. Links to other helpful sites are provided. |
| specialminds - Comprehensive resources for parents and teachers of children with special needs, learning differences, emotional and behavioral issues. |
| Start Something - The Tiger Woods Foundation - Sponsored by Target, this is a 10-week on line program that helps students begin thinking about who they are and what they can do with their lives. Contains inspirational stories, goal setting exercises, an on line presentation project, and interest exploration. |
| Ten Steps for Getting a Job - This website provides students with ten steps on how to get a job. A great tool to help students plan for success. |
| The Ball Foundation - A non-profit organization offering a range of career assessment and planning services. Workshop kit called “Getting Started: Talking to Your Child About Career Choices” facilitates educating parents on career decision making tips |
| The Career Development Quarterly – National Career Development Association - This quarterly journal contains excellent articles on research studies in career development counseling, assessment, special populations, and school career guidance. |
| The Job Shadow Coalition - The Job Shadow Coalition has made available a variety of materials to help employers, teachers, and students have a productive and fulfilling experience on Groundhog Job Shadowing Day. Downloadable brochures and guidelines are available at the site, which is co-sponsored by Monster and the News Corporation. |
| Top 20 Internet Assessed Careers - August. 1996 through January 2002. |
| USC Career Center Middle School Websites - Compiled by USC’s Career Center, this site contains comprehensive valuable information for counselors of relevant issues such as career planning, self-assessment, choosing a major, special populations, military careers, South Carolina Labor Market Information, apprenticeships, colleges and universities, financial aid and parent’s information. |
| Virtual Career Fair - Learn about careers through this website available through the State Department of Education. |
| Vocational Biographies - Real-life career stories of real people are found on this site. Vocational Biographies gives you basic information about a career in the context of living examples. |
| Woodburn Press - Publisher of numerous booklets for students and parents including, "Career Choices and Educational Options," "Instruction Booklet for Parents of College Bound Students," and "How to get the Most Out of High School." |
| Workforce 2000+ Posters - These posters are available from the Central Midlands Career Partnership. They reference the necessary skills to be successful in the workplace and are very useful for classroom teachers, particularly in calling attention to the SCANS skills. (Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) |
| Your Child’s Career - This website is designed to help parents help their children with career planning. It covers the career development process, what is happening in the world of work, and traits employees are looking for in the 21st century. |
