This page outlines the specific resources available and how to use them: ConsultaPedia Career Resources
Building a successful career requires more than just finding a job that pays well. It takes careful planning, intentional action, and a commitment to continuous learning and professional development. However, navigating the career development process can be overwhelming, especially for college and university students who are just starting out in their fields. Here is a 5-step process for achieving successful career development without getting overwhelmed: 5-Step Career Development Process
It can be very helpful to complete our careers test if we're not sure how to get started, or would like to explore multiple alternative careers based on our preferences. Our 60 question survey asks how much we'd enjoy performing very specific work tasks - and provides results with career recommendations that might be most appealing to our needs. Our Careers Test page also provides job listings, career preparation details and updated career-specific web resources to help us secure a job: Take Our Online Career Test
Due to layoffs, burnout or determining that we no longer find our existing career meaningful, we may be searching for a new career path. If we would like to change careers, how can we get moving? Use our Career Change Portal - it starts with searching thousands of specific job titles, and ends up providing active job listings and details for any of several related career paths and jobs: Career Change Portal
This page allows you to search for active job listings immediately. You can specify the title of the job you seek ("sales" is the default), specify the U.S. city location (your city is the default), specify the distance from location, and specify when the job was posted:
Search Active Job Listings
It might be helpful to identify, prepare, apply for, and obtain a "virtual" or "stay at home" job. This page has been designed to help you:
Get a Job During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Work From Home
If we already have a good idea about which career we seek, we may start our preparation by searching using specific keywords:
Specific Career Terms.
Explore careers by selecting from over 100 disciplines and majors:
Academic Degree Majors
Browsing careers based on various levels of educational achievement can help us to discover careers that we might never have considered. This may help us to identify jobs that we qualify for now, or in the near future.
Explore Careers based on Level of Education and Experience Required
Browsing careers based on categories (SOC Codes) can also help us to discover careers that we might never have considered. This tool provides a great way to explore careers from general to specific - using Standard Occupational Codes (SOC) as filters:
Careers based on Categories
Career Plan - This MS Word template will take you through a detailed career exploration process
Precedence Ranking - Interactive precedence grid - can be used to prioritize career preferences
O*Net - Occupation portal - helps identify which occupation may be right for you
Zob Zone - O*Net occupations sorted by level of preparation/education/skill (entry level appear first)
Career Profiler - Occupational Career Profiler - Identify which type of career best suits your preferences
Qualifications Brief and Cover Letter - How to identify and contact potential employers, for effect
Career SWOT - Compete the on-line Career SWOT analysis
Salary by Keyword - Search Salary data based on keyword and location
Salary Wizard - Determine the salary range for a variety of jobs
Standard Occupational Classification Codes (SOC Codes)