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Job & Career Resources for
Teens
This website is all about teens!
You'll find stuff to help you get a job, get a summer job, find a career,
find a college, apply for financial aid, discover a college major(s) and
minor(s), and more. This is the college, career, and job resource
for teenagers!
Books
Please Understand Me
Test yourself to discover what makes you
tick. These books contain many personality tests for you to learn who you
really are.
Vocational Interests
Materials
Search through our catalog to determine
what types of and individual careers may interest you. This subject search
allows you look through our library system to find books, videos and cassettes
that will help you find what's just right for you!
Websites
Career
Development eManual
From the University of Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada, a detailed guide intended for university students, but
valuable for people at any career stage. It shows how to assess one's personality,
aptitudes, and values and how to match these to potential occupations.
It gives advice on job hunting, practices, and reassessing one's career
progress. The emphasis is on self-development, being proactive, and professionalism,
but the process comes across as fundamentally enjoyable and enhancing rather
than daunting.
Career Key
Take the Career Key assessment
online to figure out your personality traits and interests to see what jobs
fit your characteristics. The Career Key is a free service to help you with
career choices, career changes, and career planning, job search, and choosing
a college major or training program.
Kiersey Temperament Sorter
II
This assessment tool uses personality as a basis for guidance in selecting
a job. After you complete the questionnaire, you receive a description of
your personality type and some examples of jobs that might match these personality
traits. Basic service is free, advanced service has a charge. Foreign language
versions (Spanish, French, German, etc.) are available at David Kiersey's web site.
Riley Guide: Self Assessment Resources
This site includes links to a variety of free and fee-based online career
interest and personality tests sites that are either self-directed or
requiring interpretive assistance.
Job Shadowing/Internships/Volunteer Work
Websites
Do Something
"Do Something is an organization that helps you get involved in your community.
As part of Do Something at your school, you and your friends identify the issues
YOU care about and create community projects to turn your ideas into action."
Rising Star Internships
Search for an
internships nationwide in fields ranging from archaeology to culinary to
even television. You can also post your resume to be viewed by the "thousands
of employers" who
use this FREE site and be automatically emailed to those companies posted
under your area of interests at the time when you post your resume. You
will automatically be emailed new internship postings in your areas of
interest as soon as they are posted on our site.
Job
Shadowing
Nationwide program that provides
students with "an up-close look at the world of work" by matching
them with workplace mentors. Provides materials for employers, educators,
and students; a newsletter and news updates; job shadowing statistics;
and details of state and national Job Shadow Day activities. A coordinated
effort of
Volunteer Match
Type in your zip code at this website and
find a volunteer job near home that fits your interests and abilities.
Websites
The Riley Guide: Resumes
and Cover Letters
This site provides links to a variety of resources to help you create resumes,
cover letters, and a list of references and recommendations. Find especially
helpful guidelines for the Internet-Ready Resume.
Teen Workers: Health Information from OSHA
This site provides "teen worker safety and health information," as
well as facts about teenager rights and responsibilities while working. It
also includes focus areas for restaurant and agriculture workers and sections
for employers, parents, teenagers, and educators. This website provides an
overview of potential hazards and links to related resources, including materials
in Spanish and is from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA).
Teens4hire
If you are a teen (14+) looking
for a full-time, part-time, summer or vocational job, register NOW to create
your profile. Then, you can search jobs, apply online to jobs of your choice,
be considered for job openings, and get the latest news and info on teen
employment.
U.S. Department of Labor: Resources for Young Workers
This website, developed by the Department of Labor,
posts special Web pages for young people, both for those old enough to work
and those not old enough, that provide information on topics ranging from
student volunteerism to job safety. It also gives information about
job preparation, career planning, how to present yourself, furthering your
education, gaining experience, and finding a job.
Youth Employment Institute
The Youth Employment Institute is a nonprofit organization that provides
job readiness training and supervised work experiences, plus computer
training, GED preparation, and more for high risk youth.
Websites
Coolworks.com
Cool Works® is
about you finding a seasonal job or career in some of the greatest places
on Earth. Get a summer job in Yellowstone,
Net-Temps
This recruiting center for
the staffing industry focuses exclusively on staffing services that are
trying to fill temporary, contract and permanent placements for their clients.
Temporary workers, contract employees or any job seeker can post resumes,
inquire about available positions and apply for jobs online.
Books
Great Jobs
For. Series
This series "answers the question, "What
can I do with a major in . . . ?" Students can explore their career
options within their field of study using the Great Jobs series as their
guide. From assessing individual talents and skills to taking the necessary
steps to land a job, every aspect of identifying and getting started in
a career choice is covered. Readers learn to explore their options, target
an ideal career, present a major as an asset to a job, perfect a job search,
and follow through and get results."
Website
Adventures
in Education
This website provides information
on careers, colleges, and financial aid to help middle and high school
students plan for the future.
Books
Career
Ideas for Kids' Series
Designed for young adults in grades 5-10, this series of
books focuses on different interests or likes; such as adventure, computers,
science, travel, and writing. These set of books can be found throughout
the library system at many of the different libraries.
VGM
Careers for You Series
If you call yourself or been described as
a class clown, a bookworm, car buff, fashion plate, financial maven, health
nut, nature lover, perfectionist, or something else, look no further than
this series of books. This series describes itself as "the only career
series designed expressly to turn passions into paychecks! The Careers
for You series inspires career explorers to look at the job market through
the unique lens of their own interests. Each book reveals dozens of ways
to pursue a passion and make a living including many little-known but
delightful careers that will surprise readers."
What Can
I Do Now? Series
This teen friendly series explores the career
opportunities in the eight different fields, provides a detailed look at
the specific occupations, discussing education and training needed, skills
required and salary ranges, and offers advice on steps to prepare for a
career.
General Websites
America's Career InfoNet
From the U.S.
Department of Labor, this website is a resource for making informed career
decisions to support a demand-driven workforce investment system. It answers
questions about the fastest growing occupations and what occupations have
the most job openings.
BLS Career Information
Get information about careers you might like based on your favorite subjects
in school. Specific occupations are suggested with specific entry requirements,
pay scales, future job outlook, and additional sources of information.
Career Guide to Industries
The Career
Guide to Industries provides information on available careers
by industry, including the nature of the industry, working conditions,
employment, occupations in the industry, training and advancement,
earnings and benefits, employment outlook, and lists of organizations
that can provide additional information.
Career Voyages
From the U.S. Department
of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education, this Web site tailored for
teens and young adults "features
detailed information about the fastest growing industries and occupations,
the skills and education required to prepare for them, job openings by
area, and wages, licensing requirements and growth rates for numerous occupations." It
also includes information about "on-the-job training, apprenticeship
programs for skilled trades, and two-year professional degree programs
at community colleges."
The Fun Works
Explore careers in the arts, music, sports, science, technology, medicine,
and engineering suited to your personal interests. Quizzes, games, and puzzles
provide a glimpse of the jobs, and information about necessary education, typical
salaries, and the nature of the work.
Jobsmart-Specific
Career Information
If you're looking for career information,
even on unusual ones, this is the place to start. This
site answers questions such as What kind of training or education is required?
What can you earn? What kind of environment will you work in? What's hot?
What's not?
Occupational
Outlook Handbook
See how much demand there is for the jobs that you're interested in. Find
out details about the education & training you need and what kind of
work the jobs involve.
Riley Guide To Internet Job Searching
This site provides one of the best overall guides to using the Web for your
job search. It does not post jobs nor resumes, review resumes, or forward
them to others on your behalf.
Studentjobs.gov
Federal government employment opportunities for high school and college students.
Search options include employment type (for example, summer employment
or internship), geographic location, and salary. Includes profiles of government
agencies with job listings in the database, as well as links to agencies
that aren't required to post listings in the database. Also offers options
to create a profile to receive job matches by e-mail, submit a resume or
get noticed by potential employers.
Specialized Fields Websites
High School Journalism
Developed by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), this site
is for teen journalists “to encourage a diverse generation of young
people to make newspaper journalism their career and impart a deeper appreciation
of the First Amendment among all teens”. News, information on summer
programs and scholarships, and links to hundreds of high school newspapers
are all found here.
LifeWorks
This site explores over 100 careers in the health and
medical sciences. Designed as a resource for middle and high school students,
the site provides information about the required education, working conditions,
salaries, and job outlook, as well as interviews with successful people
working in the field. It also offers general information about preparing
for college and is searchable by job, salary, education, and interest.
Museumjobs.com
International vacancies in
the museum, library, archives, and conservation fields are posted on Museumjobs.com.
Especially convenient is the "live job feed" marquee that runs
under the banner. Viewers may click on a position as it scrolls, allowing
them to view job details. Click on the green button in the banner on the
left-hand side to browse jobs by country or by state.
Optics for Teens
From the Optical Society
of America, a professional membership organization, this site provides an
introduction to the field of optics and its applications in science, engineering,
and medicine. Illustrated articles cover concepts such as electromagnetic
radiation, lenses and mirrors, reflection and refraction, and the human eye.
It includes career information, "online
laboratories," a section on optical illusions, lesson plans, and related
links.