Other+Career+Resources

=**Other Career Resources** =

= = = Ten Ways to Prepare Students for the World of Work: = Writing Skills, Speaking Skills, Teamwork Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Initiative, Working Under Pressure, Attention to Details, Time Management, Honesty, Love of Learning

==**Career Development Activities List: [|Career Development Activities List.pdf]** == ==**Career Development Powerpoint: [|Career Development Powerpoint.pdf]** == ==  == ==A Career Guidance Model for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: ** [|A Career Guidance Model for Adolescent with Learning Disabilities.pdf]** ==

=Career Standards: [|Career Development.doc] = ==**Career Futures: [|Career Futures.odt]** == ==**Career Information: [|Career Information.odt] [|Career Information II.odt]** == **Career Planning in Middle School: ** ==**Career Programs: [|Career Programs.odt]** == =**Designing a Career Development Workshop: [|Designing a Career Development Workshop.pdf]** = **Learn about Career Choices: ** =PHEAA Career Education and Development Training: [|Archive.zip] = =**PDE Career Developmental Goals for Counseling and Guidance: [|PDEDevelopmentalGoals.odt]** = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Education Planner: Middle School Activity Book [|Middle School Activity Book.pdf]** = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**PHEAA Acquisition, Awareness, Entrepreneurship, Retention Activities:** = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Exercise Your Mind: [|Exercise Your Mind.pdf]** = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Elementary Book Resources: [|Elementary Book Resoruces.xls]** =
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3rd Grade: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/Archive.zip"]] [|Archive.zip]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5th Grade: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/Archive.zip"]] [|Archive.zip]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">8th Grade: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/Archive.zip"]] [|Archive.zip]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">11th Grade: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/Archive.zip"]] [|Archive.zip]

= <span style="color: #00ff51; font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">PA Occupational Outlook Handbook (2006): =
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Health and Human Services: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/PA-OOH+Health+and+Human+Services+Vol+1.pdf"]] [|PA-OOH Health and Human Services Vol 1.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Transportation and Distribution: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/PAOOH+Transportation+and+Distribution+Vol+2.pdf"]] [|PAOOH Transportation and Distribution Vol 2.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Manufacturing: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/PA+OOH+Manufacturing+Vol+3.pdf"]] [|PA OOH Manufacturing Vol 3.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hospitality and Tourism: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/PAOOH+Hospitality%2C+Tourism%2C+Trade+Vol+4.pdf"]] [|PAOOH Hospitality, Tourism, Trade Vol 4.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Science: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/PAOOH+Science+Vol+5.pdf"]] [|PAOOH Science Vol 5.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Public Safety: [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://schoolcounselor001.wikispaces.com/file/view/PAOOH+Public+Safety+Vol+6.pdf"]] [|PAOOH Public Safety Vol 6.pdf]

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> Websites: = <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;"> [|XAP.COM]
 * XAP.COM** <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Evaluate interests, skills, personality and values to help determine possible career choices.

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Vocational Information Center** Explore vocational and technical careers, check out the skills employers really want, find a trade school, research technical topics and take a look at the current job market. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;"> [|Vocational Information Center]

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **National Youth Employment Coalition A non-partisan national organization dedicated to promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners, productive workers and self-sufficient citizens. ** <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|National Youth Employment Coalition] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Dr. William Daggett The International Center for Leadership in Education provides services to schools, school districts and states to help them improve their education systems. ** <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Dr. William Daggett] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Engineering Jobs** Contains a comprehensive listing of company job openings and links to other engineering job resources. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Engineering Jobs] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Exploring** A worksite-based program, Exploring is part of Learning for Life's career education program for young men and women who are 14 (and have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years old. Provides experiences that help young people mature and prepares them to become responsible and caring adults. Explorers are ready to investigate the meaning of interdependence in their personal relationships and communities. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Exploring] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Job Factory** One of the largest job databases on the Internet. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Job Factory] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Job Hunt A mega list of on-line job search resources and services. ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Job Hunt] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Monster Board Job search information, resume building, and employer profiles. ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Monster Board] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Occupational Outlook Handbook Access the 2002-2003 Handbook with occupational information including working conditions, training, job outlook, earnings, and related occupations. ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Occupational Outlook Handbook] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Outcomes of School Career Development** This ERIC document posits that career development programs in schools must do more than provide information. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Outcomes of School Career Development] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **National Career Development Guideline** s ERIC summarizes major activities of the National Career Development Guidelines initiative and suggests resources for those who wish to use the Guidelines. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|National Career Development Guidelines] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Student Transition Alliance** Follow seven recent high school graduates, all from unique backgrounds and walks of life, as they explore new adventures and experience life after high school. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Student Transition Alliance] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **South Central Pennsylvania Career Information System** Contains many links to other excellent career sites with items of interest for students, job seekers, educators, and career providers. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|South Central Pennsylvania Career Information System] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **A Guide to Post Secondary Schools** Provides helpful information about career education and career schools. Access information by county/region, career area, or specific school. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|A Guide to Post Secondary Schools] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Accounting and Financial Jobs** Employer listings devoted solely to financial professionals at all levels of careers ranging from staff positions to mid-management to CFO’s.**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Accounting and Financial Jobs] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **America's Job Bank** Sponsored by the Public Employment Service, this site has information on jobs available all over the country with information for employers and job seekers. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|America's Job Bank] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Resource Guide** Can be used as a classroom tool to guide students and jobseekers through career exploration exercises. Intended to be used in conjunction with the 2003 edition of the Pennsylvania Career Guide. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Resource Guide] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Pennsylvania STEM Initiative The STEM initiative is a statewide partnership dedicated to preparing PA for global competitiveness through a statewide strategy of enhancing science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and career development opportunities for PA students and communities. ** <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|PA STEM Initiative] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Quest USA** Send a resume on-line (free) and contact thousands of employers. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Quest USA] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Brave New Work Worl** d Monitor the daily news and trends affecting the world of work. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Brave New Work World] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Career City** Contains a comprehensive listing of job fairs throughout the USA and a job database that offers 125,000+ openings. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Career City] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Career Path** An indispensable resource for anyone who is looking for employment in or near any major US city. Includes the Sunday job listings from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and several other big city daily newspapers. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Career Path] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Career Park** Offers employment opportunities with some of the world’s most respected and fastest growing employers. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Career Park] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Career Link PA’s one-step on-line resource for job seeker services, employer services, social services and training. ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Career Link] ** = =

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">**Census in Schools Learn about the Census in Schools program which provides teaching tools, resource materials ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Census in Schools] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Career Voyages This web site is designed to provide information on high-growth, high-demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs. Start exploring career options—whether you are in high school, have graduated, have a 2-year or 4-year degree, or have knowledge and skills acquired through training centers, on-the-job training, or work experience. ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Career Voyages] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **Diversity Career Center Dedicated to providing career self-development information to all minorities. The Minorities’ Job Bank contains the largest database of equal opportunity employers committed to workplace diversity. ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Diversity Career Center] **

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics** Employment projections, fast-growing occupations, and other employment-related statistical data and analyses. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; padding-right: 10px;">[|Bureau of Labor and Statistics]

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif;"> **The Princeton Review** A good site for information on practicing for your SAT’s, on taking your LSAT’s or MCAT’s, on choosing a school, and on the college admissions process. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; padding-right: 10px;"> [|The Prinston Review]

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif;"> **10 Fastest Growing Occupation** **s** Wondering where the hot jobs are? Visit this site to find out. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|10 Fastest Growing Occupations]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;"> [|The Career Key]
 * The Career Key** <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Helps in choosing a career, choosing a college major or training program, and in career planning. Take The Career Key, a professional test or quiz that measures skills, abilities, talents, values, interests, and personality.

<span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> **ONet** Occupational information network. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;"> [|ONet]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Post Secondary Education Opportunity]
 * Post Secondary Education Opportunity <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Information for those who formulate, fund, and administer public policy and programs about the condition of and influences that affect postsecondary education opportunity for all Americans. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|PHEAA Mentor]
 * PHEAA Mentor <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">PHEAA Mentor is a great site for College applications, financial aid information, campus descriptions, and more. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|PHEAA]
 * PHEAA <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Preparing today's youth for successful careers tomorrow, this site is full of activities and information for students, parents, teachers, and counselors. **

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<span style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**PHEAA Information Useful for K-8 Counselors** This Website has information that can be used by counselors who work with kids not in high school. The Website has a few activity books as well as some planners that can be used by elementary and middle school children. ====== <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|K-8 Counselors]

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Pennsylvania Career Clusters]
 * Pennsylvania Career Clusters <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">This booklet focuses on a sampling of careers within the 16 career clusters. The information can greatly assist students in focusing on vital career information as they plan for the future. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|PA Labor Market Information]
 * Pennsylvania Labor Market Information <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">The Center for Workforce Information and Analysis is PA’s designated provider of employment statistics. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|PA Free Enterprise Week]
 * Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">An intensive program that educates high school students about the American free enterprise system. **


 * Pennsylvania Career Guide <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Contains wage and job outlook information for over 180 occupations, interest assessments, sources for financial aid, and contact information for Pennsylvania's public schools, **
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|PA Career Guide] **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|PA Association for Student Financial Aid Administrators]
 * Pennsylvania Association for Student Financial Aid Administrators <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">PASFAA is a professional organization established to encourage and assist the professional preparation, effectiveness, and recognition of student financial aid administrators in postsecondary educational institutions and to assist secondary school counselors and administrators interested in the development of student financial aid programs. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|National Groundhog Job Shadow]
 * National Groundhog Job Shadow <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Students across America "shadow" workplace mentors as they go through a normal day on the job. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|National Career Development Association]
 * National Career Development Association <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">NCDA is the recognized leader in developing standards for both career counseling and the evaluation of career information materials. NCDA works with licensing and credentialing bodies to support the recognition of career counselors and career development facilitators. NCDA also sets ethical standards for the field including guidelines for the provision of career services on the Internet. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators' Counseling Tools]
 * National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators' Counseling Tooks <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">See the counseling tools located on the left side of homepage. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering]
 * National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Search career options and take career surveys. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Kids and the Power of Work]
 * Kids and the Power of Work <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">A program of the National Child Labor Committee, Kapow is a national network of business and elementary school partnerships which introduces students to career awareness through professionally developed lessons taught by business volunteers in the classroom. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Jobs at the Census Bureau]
 * Census Bureau <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">See the Jobs homepage where you can search job categories, available jobs, job applications, and job incentives. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|ACT Choosing a Career]
 * ACT Choosing a Career <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">By following these steps, a student can make an informed career decision by knowing and evaluating option. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Association for Women in Science]
 * Association for Women in Science <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Competencies in Assessment for School Counselors]
 * Competencies in Assessment and Evaluation for School Counselors <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">The Association for Assessment in Counseling (AAC) is an organization of counselors, counselor educators, and other professionals that advocates the counseling profession by providing leadership, training, and research in the creation, development, production, and use of assessment and diagnostic techniques. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Developmental Career Programs for Schools]
 * Developmental Career Programs for Schools <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">As a professional counselor or counselor educator, you are the linchpin to helping clients and students with the challenges that they face each and every day. For more than fifty years, the American Counseling Association has dedicated itself to helping you with the resources, services, products and information you need to be successful. **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Federal Student Aid (for Counselors)]
 * Federal Student Aid (for Counselors) <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">The High School Counselor's Handbook describes the student financial aid programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education. It includes an extensive section on completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and lists useful telephone numbers, publications, and web sites about student aid. **


 * Information for Counselors <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Helping young people succeed—that's what the job of a high school counselor is all about. By guiding students through the complex transition from adolescence into adulthood, counselors shape the future of society. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Information for Counselors]


 * Information for Counselors Competencies (NCDA) <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Describes the eleven competencies that an individual must demonstrate to become a career counselor. ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Information for Counselors Competencies] **


 * Job Bank USA <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Specializes in providing employment networking and information services to job candidates, employers, and recruitment firms. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Job Bank USA]


 * Job Source <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Provides extensive links to employment openings with state and federal government. **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Job Source]


 * Jobs for the Future <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Seeks to accelerate the educational and economic advancement of youth and adults struggling in our economy. ****<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px;">[|Jobs for the Future] **

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Bridges]
 * Bridges** <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Students can explore educational goals and make plans for the future. Bridges provides systems that help counselors and organizations achieve goals.