| Identify careers to explore by your Interests |
| O*NET Descriptors are categories of occupational information collected to help introduce the connection between 6 "Interest" areas and suggested careers and types of work to consider. |
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| Career Key |
| An assessment to help you match interests with occupations. Complete it, then use your scores with the "Career Interest Hexagon" above to learn more about occupations. |
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| Career Voyages and ReEmployment Portal |
| A career exploration website from the US Departments of Labor and Education aimed at high school students and adults with technical training and/or associate and bachelor degrees. Includes a new ReEmployment Portal for individuals recareering. |
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| O*NET Occupational Information System |
| A search on the US Department of Labor’s database of over 950 occupations can help you find occupations to explore, look at related occupations, and view occupation summaries and details. |
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| Occupational Outlook Handbook |
| An excellent source of career and job description information published annually by the U.S. Department of Labor, with links to a vast number of other USDOL Bureau of Labor Statistics information. |
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| Occupational Outlook Quarterly |
| OOQ provides practical information on jobs and careers. Articles are written in straightforward, non-technical language and cover a wide variety of career and work-related topics such as new and emerging occupations, training opportunities, salary trends, and results of new studies from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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| Fastest growing occupations projected for 2006-2016 by U. S. Dept of Labor |
| Check out the growth rate of these occupations. Many required only on-the-job training. |
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| Michigan Electronic Library/Occupations & Careers |
| This MeL Reference Desk link to their "Occupations and Careers" links can be an entry point to rich sources of information screened by professional libraries. Type in the name of the occupation or career you are interested in. |
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| High Demand Occupations by County in Michigan |
| Michigan's "No Worker Left Behind" initiative helps citizens find new work in new occupations, including funding for training up to $10,000 over two years. Here are the occupations for which funding is available. |
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| The Michigan Green Jobs Initiative |
| This initiative is designed to help make sure the emerging industries and green economy have the trained workers they need to grow and prosper. Many believe this is where new manufacturing jobs will be created in the state. |
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| Michigan Labor Market Information |
| State of Michigan Labor Market Information site. Here one can find extensive information on labor market wages, occupations in demand, and other information helpful to decision making and gauging one's market value specific to local metropolitan areas. |
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| Michigan Career Portal |
| This site is an excellent bridge to state and national employment, career, education, training, and business resources and services--if you know what you are looking to find. |
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| Michigan Occupations Wagefinder |
| Identify up to 20 of the top paying occupations by Michigan metropolitan areas. Not surprisingly, the more education and/or sales and marketing skills, the more you can make. |
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| Salary.com |
| Find an average salary for a wide variety of jobs, including geographically specific wages. |
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| Find a Certified Career Counselor |
| See the "Need a Career Counselor?" tab of the NCDA website header for information on location, selection, and services of a professional career counselor, and the "Internet Resources" section for additional links to valuable resources. From the National Career Development Association. |
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| Think of yourself as a self-employed, free agent |
| Each of us is really self employed as we are each selling our services to one customer, our employer, or to many customers, each of whom is an employer to us, just not our only one. |
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