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Career Discovery
Missouri Connections is a web-based resource to help students determine their career interests, explore occupations, and establish their educational strategies. Sponsored by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, students (grades 6-14), parents, guidance counselors, and educators can use the online system at no charge.
Students: Make plans for education and career pathways with Missouri Connections. Click through the menu options at the left for more information on planning for the future. Or, click on New or Returning Users to login to the Education and Career Planning System.
With Missouri Connections you can:
- Learn about career paths, clusters, pathways, and career options.
- Build a portfolio with education plans, resumes, favorites, and more.
- Make college, financial aid, and scholarship decisions.
- Stay on track with goals and get prepared for the workforce.
The site is at http://www.missouriconnections.org/.
One’s high school years can be a time of trying new things and discovering dimensions of one’s personality for the first time. There are new academic challenges, getting to know new people, participating in activities that you perhaps had not tried before and gaining new social skills. This can be a great time to challenge one’s self and begin to search and plan. Part of your self-discovery process should also include thinking AND planning your career and post-graduation educational decisions. We have put together some of our favorite and helpful internet Websites for you to explore. If you are a junior, many of these were introduced to you during our first small group meetings. These useful links can help you by…
- Doing career assessments – providing information about your personality, likes and dislikes in a job, and discovering where you fit in the world of work;
- Collecting useful information;
- Narrowing your potential career choices to those you want to know more about;
- Begin the process of planning to enter your chosen career;
- Searching and planning for you choice of continued or higher education.
There are two publications to assist with post-secondary transition that are available through the web pages of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Division of Career Education. The descriptions and web addresses are below.From the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE):“Student Pathways to Success” presents four recommendations on improving student achievement in all Missouri high schools. These recommendations are a focus
- on school career guidance and counseling,
- on rigor, relevance, and relationships in school curriculum,
- on student transitions and focus on high quality professional development.
This information can be found on the Division of Career Education webpage at http://dese.mo.gov/divcareered/ under the heading White Paper: Student Pathways to Success.
“What’s The Plan? Helping Students Explore Their Futures” is a booklet which introduces career clusters in Missouri. Career clusters is a framework to help learners of all ages prepare for the global, knowledge-based economy of today and the future. This framework will assist schools in offering programs that include differentiated academic content as well as provide a means for students to acquire credentials recognized by business and industry. These programs of study will allow for students to create their own personal plan of study based upon individual interests, abilities, and career maturity. This information can be found on the Division of Career Education webpage at http://dese.mo.gov/divcareered/ under the heading Career Clusters Booklet.
The Career Key – The Career Key will help you — in choosing a career, choosing a college major or training program, and in career planning. Take The Career Key, a professional test or quiz. It measures your skills, abilities, talents, values, interests, and personality. You will identify promising jobs and get accurate career information about them.
http://www.careerkey.org/
MyStudentEdge – From Peterson’s online services. This is your online resource center for test preparation, college search, paying for college and financial aid, and career exploration and planning. Discover your future with MyStudentEdge™! Vianney High School has a special licensing arrangement with Peterson’s to better serve your son’s career and higher education research and search. Contact a counselor for the initial access code and then register as a user online.
http://www.MyStudentEdge.com
Jung Typology Test— Identify your personal type in Jung Typology Test. According to the Jung – Myers-Briggs typology all people can be classified using four criteria:
Extroversion – Introversion Sensing – Intuition
Thinking – Feeling Judging – Perceiving
You will obtain your Jungian type, strength of the preferences and type description as a result of the Jung Typology Test. It may help you to identify your general life style and your style in certain fields of activity and perhaps a what type of career setting would be best for you.
http://www.humanmetrics.com/
Mapping-Your-Future – Find out how to choose a career and reach your career goal by exploring the Mapping-Your-Future web page. Put together a career plan, look at your skills and interests, explore detailed descriptions of many careers, and then select the type of education and training you will need to enter that career.
http://www.mapping-your-future.org/planning
About-Dot-Com – The total occupational and career planning resource page from ABOUT.COM. Career planning and exploration A to Z!
http://careerplanning.about.com/
Online Job Handbook – Once you’ve identified some careers for yourself, go to the Occupational Outlook Handbook and look up thorough descriptions of the jobs. Lean more!
http://www.bls.gov/oco/
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