Hillsdale High School

Planning for Future Careers

California Colleges
The career module of the California Colleges web site helps you identify and prepare for a career that suits your interests, skills, and abilities. Career advice, lists of fastest-growing careers, career search activities based on your interests, skills, values, personality at http://www.californiacolleges.edu/career/

Choices Explorer
Hillsdale offers you Choices Explorer career guidance software. This online resource is accessible at home through your Internet server or from Hillsdale computers. Choices provides a wide range of tools for career exploration, including a library of articles on different careers and a personal career research tool.

To access Choices, go to www.bridges.com. Click on SITE ID: Enter: 0011749 and Password: knights1. Click on Choice Explorer to explore career and education options. Click on Learning Style Inventory to find out which learning styles, strategies and environments help you learn best.

American Education Services
This is an integrated career and college planning suite of web sites sponsored by American Education Services. It includes career interest quiz, directory of careers linked to personality type, college planning, information on financial aid and more. Available at:
http://www.educationplanner.com/education_planner/default.asp?sponsor=2859

Building California Construction Careers
A career in the building and construction trades can be a rewarding experience. In addition to excellent pay and benefits, construction offers an opportunity to work outside, to work with your hands and to work as part of a team. Take a quick self-assessment survey to see if you have what it takes to work in the trades. Available at: www.buildingc3.com

California Apprenticeship Coordinators Association
Union apprenticeship programs in California offering excellent career opportunities. Available at www.calapprenticeship.org

Occupational Outlook Handbook
This handbook is a national recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. A copy of this book is available in the Career Center.




	Planning for Future Careers California Colleges The career module of the California Colleges web site helps you identify and prepare for a career that suits your interests, skills, and abilities. Career advice, lists of fastest-growing careers, career search activities based on your interests, skills, values, personality at http://www.californiacolleges.edu/career/ Choices Explorer Hillsdale offers you Choices Explorer career guidance software. This online resource is accessible at home through your Internet server or from Hillsdale computers. Choices provides a wide range of tools for career exploration, including a library of articles on different careers and a personal career research tool. To access Choices, go to www.bridges.com. Click on SITE ID: Enter: 0011749 and Password: knights1. Click on Choice Explorer to explore career and education options. Click on Learning Style Inventory to find out which learning styles, strategies and environments help you learn best. American Education Services This is an integrated career and college planning suite of web sites sponsored by American Education Services. It includes career interest quiz, directory of careers linked to personality type, college planning, information on financial aid and more. Available at: http://www.educationplanner.com/education_planner/default.asp?sponsor=2859 Building California Construction Careers A career in the building and construction trades can be a rewarding experience. In addition to excellent pay and benefits, construction offers an opportunity to work outside, to work with your hands and to work as part of a team. Take a quick self-assessment survey to see if you have what it takes to work in the trades. Available at: www.buildingc3.com California Apprenticeship Coordinators Association Union apprenticeship programs in California offering excellent career opportunities. Available at www.calapprenticeship.org Occupational Outlook Handbook This handbook is a national recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. A copy of this book is available in the Career Center.