Career Interest Exploration
Browse through the websites and interest surveys listed below to explore what type of career may best fit your strengths!
Browse through the websites and interest surveys listed below to explore what type of career may best fit your strengths!
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov/k12/content/students/careers/career-exploration.htm
- Career One Stop
www.careeronestop.org/ - College Board
bigfuture.collegeboard.org/majors-careers - Missouri Connections
Career exploration includes the following: - Completion of the Career Cluster Inventory (CIS) survey.
- Completion of various lessons related to career development.
- Researching results from their CIS to discover an occupation of interest
- Self exploration includes the following:
- Discovering interests to help with the question of “Who am I?”
- Creating a 6 year plan to answer the question of “Where am I going?”
- Gathering information to prepare for “How do I get there?”
- Missouri Connections is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and provides students (grades 6-14), their parents, counselors, and educators with educational and career planning information and resources at no charge.
The comprehensive internet-based system, customized specifically for Missouri, offers the following services: - Career Path, Career Cluster, and Career Pathway Exploration
- Career Assessment and Direction
- Educational and Occupational Planning
- Job Preparation and Management
- Portfolio and Resume Building
- For more information you can visit www.missouriconnections.org. Each student has a username and password. Please ask your child to share this information with you to access their career exploration progress.
