Provided are alphabetical lists of occupations which go into detail about the responsibilities, education needed, salary, and growth outlook for every conceivable career. They even give detailed information specific to each state. You can save career areas you are interested in, into your favorites for future reference.
If you don't know what areas you are interested in there is an assessment available. Three areas are assessed: Interests, Abilities, and Values. To help narrow down what areas you are best suited for. My son did this and he said it was mostly accurate. He did have an interest in civil engineering but he said the only science questions he was asked was biology, which he does not have interest in, so it showed up lower on his list of possible areas of careers. Interest and abilities are pretty straightforward questions. For values the questions asked are if you like working with customers, prefer office work or not, and other questions like this.
After we completed the assessment the company sent us a link to a free curriculum to accompany the DISCOVER program. You can take a look at that here: http://www.act.org/discover/support/resource.html This provides a more in depth look at career exploration and gives some guidance to work through the website with more structure. This seemed to be more classroom oriented, but could be adapted easily for the home.
Also available which is helpful is a resume builder. My son is going to use this feature and I will comment more after he is done...
This is a great program to help people determine possible career options based on likes and dislikes. It also helps the student plan out the eduction needed. There are also links to info about financial aid and other financial helps. This is a great career planning website.
To get more info about ACT, inc. DISCOVER career planning website: CLICK HERE.
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