Career Planning
The First Step: Self-Analysis |
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Career Curricula & Guides
| Career and Personal Planning Curriculum for Grades K–7 | |
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| Career and Personal Planning Curriculum for Grades 8–12 | |
| Careers in Science and Engineering - A Student Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond | |
| Engineer Girl! - discover various engineering careers; not just for girls | |
| Next Stop - All about Career Exploration, Planning, and Job Searching | |
| College Board’s Career Browser - Match interests and abilities with careers |
General Career Information
| Engineer Girl! - discover various engineering careers; not just for girls | |
| Michigan’s Career Pathways | |
| Next Stop - All about Career Exploration, Planning, and Job Searching | |
| Occupational Outlook Handbook: Alphabetical Index of information on jobs | |
| Occupational Outlook Handbook: Information by Occupational Cluster - left column | |
| Occupational Outlook Handbook: Keyword Search - “SEARCH OOH” box on left |
Specific Career Information
- Accountants and auditors
- Actors, producers, and directors
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers
- Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
- Agricultural and food scientists
- Agricultural inspectors
- Air traffic controllers
- Aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and service technicians
- Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
- Airfield operations specialists
- Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
- Amusement and recreation attendants
- Animal care and service workers
- Animal control workers
- Announcers
- Appraisers and assessors of real estate
- Aquatic & Marine Science careers
- Archaeology career FAQs
- Architects, except landscape and naval
- Archivists, curators, and museum technicians
- Artists and related workers
- Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers
- Athletic trainers
- Atmospheric Research and Applied Meteorology careers
- Atmospheric scientists
- Audiologists
- Audio-visual collections specialists
- Authors, writers, and editors/li>
- Automotive body and related repairers
- Automotive service technicians and mechanics
- Barbers, cosmetologists, and other personal appearance workers
- Bicycle repairers
- Biological scientists
- Boilermakers
- Bookbinders and bindery workers
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
- Botany Careers
- Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons
- Bridge and lock tenders
- Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators
- Budget analysts
- Bus drivers
- Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
- Carpenters
- Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers
- Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers
- Chemical plant and system operators
- Child care workers
- Chiropractors
- Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators
- Clergy
- Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
- Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
- Commercial and industrial designers
- Commercial divers
- Communications equipment operators
- Computer and information systems managers
- Computer control programmers and operators
- Computer Graphics & Animation
- Computer network, systems, and database administrators
- Computer operators
- Computer scientists
- Computer support specialists
- Computer systems analysts
- Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
- Concierges
- Conservation scientists and foresters
- Construction and building inspectors
- Construction equipment operators
- Construction managers
- Correctional officers
- Correspondence clerks
- Cost estimators
- Costume attendants
- Counselors
- Couriers and messengers
- Court reporters
- Court, municipal, and license clerks
- Credit analysts
- Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
- Crossing guards
- Customer service representatives
- Dancers and choreographers
- Data entry and information processing workers
- Dental assistants
- Dental hygienists
- Dentists
- Desktop publishers
- Diagnostic medical sonographers
- Diesel service technicians and mechanics
- Dietetic technicians
- Dietitians and nutritionists
- Directors, religious activities and education
- Drafters
- Economists
- Education administrators
- Electrical and electronics installers and repairers
- Electricians
- Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
- Elevator installers and repairers
- Emergency management specialists
- Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
- Engineering and natural sciences managers
- Engineering technicians
- Engineers
- Environment: Guide to Outdoor/Environmental Careers
- Epidemiologists
- Etchers and engravers
- Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
- Farm and home management advisors
- Farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers
- Fashion designers
- File clerks
- Financial analysts
- Financial examiners
- Financial managers
- Fire fighters
- Fire inspectors and investigators
- First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
- First-line supervisors/managers of farming, fishing, and forestry workers
- First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers
- First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers
- First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers
- First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
- First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators
- Fishers and fishing vessel operators
- Fitness workers
- Flight attendants
- Floral designers
- Food and beverage serving and related workers
- Food processing occupations
- Food service managers
- Forest and conservation workers
- Funeral attendants
- Funeral directors
- Gaming cage workers
- Gaming services occupations
- Gas plant operators
- Glaziers
- Graphic designers
- Grounds maintenance workers
- Hazardous materials removal workers
- Health educators
- Heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
- Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics
- Highway maintenance workers
- Home appliance repairers
- Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
- Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
- Human resources, training, and labor relations managers and specialists
- Industrial production managers
- Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
- Instructional coordinators
- Insulation workers
- Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
- Insurance underwriters
- Interior designers
- Interpreters and translators
- Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
- Job opportunities in the Armed Forces
- Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
- Landscape architects
- Law clerks
- Lawyers
- Legislators
- Librarians
- Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
- Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers
- Line installers and repairers
- Loan counselors
- Loan officers
- Locksmiths and safe repairers
- Lodging managers
- Logisticians
- Machinists
- Maintenance and repair workers, general
- Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
- Manufactured building and mobile home installers
- Market and survey researchers
- Massage therapists
- Material moving occupations
- Mathematical technicians
- Mathematicians
- Mechanical door repairers
- Medical and health services managers; What Do Health Administrators Do?
- Medical assistants
- Medical equipment repairers
- Medical records and health information technicians
- Medical transcriptionists
- Medical, dental, and ophthalmic laboratory technicians
- Meeting and convention planners
- Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
- Models
- Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
- Motion picture projectionists
- Musical instrument repairers and tuners
- Musicians, singers, and related workers
- New accounts clerks
- News analysts, reporters, and correspondents
- Nuclear medicine technologists
- Occupational health and safety technicians
- Occupational therapists
- Office and administrative support worker supervisors and managers
- Operations research analysts
- Opticians, dispensing
- Optometrists
- Order clerks
- Orthotists and prosthetists
- Painters and paperhangers
- Paralegals and legal assistants
- Payroll and timekeeping clerks
- Personal financial advisors
- Pest control workers
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy technicians and aides
- Photographers
- Physical therapist assistants and aides
- Physical therapists
- Physician assistants
- Physicians and surgeons
- Careers in Plant Pathology
- Podiatrists
- Police and detectives
- Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
- Postmasters and mail superintendents
- Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers
- Prepress technicians and workers
- Printing machine operators
- Private detectives and investigators
- Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
- Procurement clerks
- Production, planning, and expediting clerks
- Property, real estate, and community association managers
- Psychiatric technicians
- Psychologists; Psychology careers; Psychology Career Center
- Public relations specialists
- Radiation therapists
- Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers
- Radiologic technologists and technicians
- Rail transportation occupations
- Real estate brokers and sales agents
- Receptionists and information clerks
- Recreation workers
- Recreational therapists
- Recreational vehicle service technicians
- Registered nurses
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
- Residential advisors
- Respiratory therapists
- Respiratory therapy technicians
- Retail salespersons
- Roofers
- Sales engineers
- Science: On Becoming a Scientist
- Science technicians
- Secretaries and administrative assistants
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
- Security and fire alarm systems installers
- Security guards and gaming surveillance officers
- Semiconductor processors
- Set and exhibit designers
- Sheet metal workers
- Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
- Signal and track switch repairers
- Small engine mechanics
- Social and community service managers
- Social and human service assistants
- Social science research assistants
- Social scientists
- Social workers
- Sociologists and political scientists
- Speech-language pathologists
- Stationary engineers and boiler operators
- Statistical assistants
- Statisticians; Statistics careers
- Stock clerks and order fillers
- Structural and reinforcing iron and metal workers
- Surgical technologists
- Surveyors & Cartographers
- Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
- Tax preparers
- Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
- Teacher assistants
- Technical Careers: Women of NASA
- Technical writers
- Telemarketers
- Television, video, and motion picture camera operators and editors
- Tellers
- Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
- Tool and die makers
- Top executives
- Tour guides and escorts
- Travel agents
- Travel guides
- Truck drivers and driver/sales workers
- Urban and regional planners
- Veterinarians; NetVet
- Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
- Watch repairers
- Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
- Water transportation occupations
- Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
- Welding, soldering, and brazing workers
- Woodworkers
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