Career Exploration Resources

More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles’s timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish. Using the trailblazing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover—and land—the work, and life, most meaningful to them.

An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose. Belle Liang and Timothy Klein devote their careers both to counseling individual students and to cutting through the daily pressures to show a better way, a framework, and set of questions to find kids' "true north": what really turns them on in life, and how to harness the core qualities that reveal, allowing them to choose a course of study, a college, and a career. This book shows that successful human beings instead tap into their purpose--the why behind the what and how.

Describes careers such as
v. 1 Accounting services-Civil services: public safety -- v. 2 Coal mining industry-Food retail industry -- v. 3 Food services-Local public administration -- v. 3 Logging industry-Postal and package delivery services -- v. 5 Printing industry-Telecommunications infrastructure industry -- v. 6 Textile and fabrics industry-Water supply industry.