[CALIBK12] TARGET: College and Career websites

[Doug Achterman]

We've been pretty happy with the new "California Career Zone "  at http://www.cacareerzone.org/
 
It provides an interest profiler and other assessments, information on careers in a wide variety of areas, and a "reality check" that asks students to make choices about where they want to live, what kind of housing they want, which utilities, what kind of car, how many children they'd like to have, etc. At the end of this survey, they're presented with an annual income they'll need in order to sustain their lifestyle. Last week a girl in one class took the survey and discovered that if she got a "really good job that paid, like, $8 an hour," she would only fall short of her goal by $115,000 a year!
 
Don't miss the Occupational Outlook Handbook online, too, at http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
 
For colleges, California Colleges is a pretty good starting place at http://www.californiacolleges.edu/, and I also recommend CSU Mentor, http://www.csumentor.edu/.
 
For other college and career links, you might check out http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/sbhslib/collcareer/collegehelp.htm
 
 
 
Doug Achterman
San Benito High School
1220 Monterey St.
Hollister, CA  95023
dachterman at sbhsd.k12.ca.us
http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/sbhslib/library.htm
 

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I have two AVID classes coming in next week. The 8th graders are
researching colleges, and the 7th graders careers. Does anyone have
great websites for either general college information or great websites
for careers? (I'm looking for quality, not quantity.)
TIA,


Nina Jackson
Teacher Librarian
National Board Certified
Franklin Classical Middle School (6-8 grade)
Long Beach, CA
njackson at lbschools.net
catsandbooks999 at hotmail.com

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by
others.--Andre Maurois

Books invite all; they constrain none.--Inscription at the Los Angeles
Public Library

"Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said.  "It's one of
the reasons for their wickedness."
 - Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril (2005)

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