Welcome to the College and Career Page!

The first category Other Opportunities offers internships, job opportunities, summer programs etc

The following category Career Pathways is a list of sites that will be extremely useful if you have decided on a career or if you're undecided about your future.  There's a website for everyone.

Please remember to scroll to the bottom of the page for upcoming visits from college and career recruiters.

Other Opportunities:

Internships:

Bank of America Student Leader

If you are a student with a passion for improving your community, we would like to help you turn that passion into action. We are looking for leaders who are high school juniors and seniors in the US and secondary students in sixth form college or college of further education in the UK.

As a Student Leader, you will participate in:

• An eight-week paid internship at a nonprofit/charitable organization
• A week-long Student Leadership Summit in Washington, DC (July, 2010) to gain valuable civic, social and business leadership skills

Summer Programs:

UC Davis Young Scholars

The UC Davis Young Scholars Program is a summer residential research program designed to expose 40, high achieving high school students to the world of original research in the natural sciences with emphases on the biological, environmental and agricultural sciences. To be eligible for the summer of 2010, students must be currently enrolled as sophomores or juniors in high school.

Career Pathways:

UC Gateways

This site requires registration so you can take a career interest survey, personality survey, pathways, work values and much more.

My Future

This site offers career planning advice.

Careers

A site with links to career resources and jobs.

America's Career InfoNet

Information on salary, job openings and fastest growing occupations by states.

College Board Career Browser 

Browse specific jobs and learn about working conditions, job forecasts, related professions, and what you can be doing right now to reach your goals.

Princeton Review’s Career Page 

Discover, research and plan for career success.

Career Resource 

Magor resource Kits link academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of Career Resource Center materials available to students in a particular major.

Job Web 

This is from the National Association of Colleges and employers.  The site contains online career fair, resume and interview articles, and information on career development, internships or job market research.

Career Builder 

Quite the database of career and job opportunities.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook 

The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.  Revised every two years, 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.  It is administered by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

O*NET Online

The nation's primary source of occupational information.  The O'Net database and related products will help millions of employers, workers, educators, and students make informed decisions about education, training, career choices, and work.  The O'Net Project is administered and sponsored by the US Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration.

MyMajors.com

Have you decided that you want to go to college, but don't know what you want to major in?  If you aren't sure, MyMajors.com can provide useful advice on college and university majors that a high school senior or college freshman with your interests and achievements might do well in if you choose.