Career Planning

Need help choosing a career? Learn the basics of resumes, job interviews, and applications. You will also find listings of available jobs.

The Career Key
This site will help you in choosing a career, a college major, changing a career and career planning.

Occupational Oulook Handbook
A nationally recognized source of career information designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about future work lives.

UNL Career Services
Includes interest and skill assessments, career planning checklist, exploration web sites and other useful information

Nebraska Career Connections
A comprehensive career planning site that offers interests, skills, and work value inventories; occupation exploration; job searching skills and a resume' builder; and educational planning, including a college search. The inventories will be administered in classroom settings, but other activities may be done by the individual student. You may be asked for the school access code (11441) and school zip code (68147).

Career Discovery
Tools that empower individuals, regardless of their current station in life, to make better career choices. Includes links to Business, Educational, and Government sites.

Planning a Career
On this site, you can find out how to choose a career and how to reach your career goal. You can also pick up useful tips on job hunting, resume writing, and job interviewing techniques.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Guide
This site is a place for students who like certain subjects in school. The site will link the subject in school to possible careers.

Academic and Career Internet Resources
Includes university link titled "What Can I Do with A Major In?"

Guides for Specific Careers
These sites are packed with information about planning your career. What kind of training or education is required? What can you earn? What kind of environment will you work in? What's hot? What's not?