Resource links to help you plan your career
Career Planning
- Becomeopedia.com - Information about hundreds of careers including education requirements, job descriptions, salary information, and future career paths.
- BrainTrack - Although its primary purpose is to offer acomprehensive directory of the world's universities and colleges, BrainTrack has a growing number of excellent career resources, including career profiles, expert videos, student & workers "First Person Stories," salary summaries, career articles, and a career planning guide.
- Candid Careers (videos) - Candid Careers features hundreds of videos of people in a huge variety of careers, each telling their story of how they ended up in their career.
- Career Profiles - CareerProfiles.info website provides accurate, up-to-date, and highly relevant career information and job descriptions designed to help you determine if a particular career or job will help you achieve your goals. Content is submitted by people actually working in the careers.
- Career Browser - CollegeBoard.com
- Career Guides for Specific Careers - Job Start Central
- Inside Career Info - Searchable collection of hundreds of candid career reports written by "insiders", successful professionals who are actually doing the job.
- Inside Jobs - Excellent resource to explore careers through the career paths and of videos of people in the various fields. Career descriptions also has salary info, work environment and other information for each job type. Also has ability to search for and save jobs.
- Career Profiles - offers highly relevant, reliable and up-to-date career profiles, information and job search resources, including resources for career changers.
- Career Transitions Center of Chicago
- EVOKE
- Job Hunter's Bible - Richard Bolles
- MyNextMove - My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. The site has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's interests and level of work experience.
- O*Net
- Pathfinders
- What Can I Do with This Major?
Major Options
Graduate School
- ABA-LSAC – Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools
- Braintrack Colleges by Career - In-depth career profiles as well as degree and wage statistics for over 400 occupations that commonly require college or university education, along with an extensive searchable database of US and international colleges and universities.
- Educational Testing Service (ETS) - Founded in 1947, ETS develops, administers and scores more than 50 million tests annually — including the GRE® General and Subject Tests and other graduate/professional program entrance tests.
- Graduate and Professional Studies - Peterson's Guides Graduate Planner guide.
- GraduateSchool4You.com - free graduate advice and preparation tips
- GradSchools.com
- MyGRETutor.com - great site for anyone planning to take the GRE, with FREE tutorials, practice tests, study guides, study plans, and more.
- Peterson's Guides - comprehensive database of accredited graduate programs
- PhDs.org – information on science, math and engineering graduate programs
- TestPreview's Picking the Right Grad School - Making the decision, choosing a grad school, application process, and more.
- The Princeton Review – guide to graduate programs and preparatory courses
- The Association of American Medical Colleges – medical school admissions requirements
Alumni & Students
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