16 Career Clusters Chart
This chart includes a description of the 16 major
career clusters from the States' Career Clusters Initiative (SCCI).
Apprenticeship Programs in
Pinellas County
If you would like to work full time after high
school and take part-time classes to improve your technical skills,
then an Apprenticeship program may be just the thing for you.
See a listing of the programs offered through the Pinellas Technical
Education Centers.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
What do you like? Based on your favorite
school subject or activity, this web site gives you suggested
careers along with a description of the work, education needed,
salary, job outlook and related jobs.
Career Voyages
This web site is
the result of a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor
and the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to provide
information on high growth, high demand occupations along with the
skills and education needed to attain those jobs. It contains
hundreds of streaming videos as well as well as links to career
assessment tools and organizational websites.
Choices Planner
Free to all Florida
residents, this site includes an interest inventory, values
profiler, career and school search, portfolio section and much more.
By creating a free account, your information is stored on the site’s
server for future use.
College Career
Life Planning
The
information on this website is provided to schools, teachers and
students for their personal, non-commercial use and its sole
objective is to provide as many young people as possible with the
tools/information needed to make informed life decisions (e.g.
college, major, career, company/industry).
College View Career Center
Web
site is designed to help students get their careers on track and to
provide them with tools to start planning the future. The site
includes a wealth of information on resume writing, interviewing
skills, best-paying and fastest-growing fields and careers.
ePEP
Public middle and high school students map out courses for high
school with FACTS.org's ePersonal Education Planner (ePEP).
FACTS
( Florida
Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students)
Provides information on Florida postsecondary institutions, career
guidance, occupations, resources for planning high school courses
and personal high school academic evaluations
Florida NEXT
Student
centered magazine featuring articles and information on the "future
after high school". This site includes section on: High School Life
- advice for 9th graders;
Colleges and Tech Schools - picking the perfect school;
Workin' It - jobs and
careers; Your Cash - ways to save; Healthy and Fit - good health habits;
Scholarships - types of aid available; Cars, Sports & Fun - tips on
buying a car.
Florida
Career Pathways/Tech Prep Network
This website is
sponsored by the association of Career Pathways/Tech Prep practitioners throughout
Florida. FTPN focuses on uniting the Career Pathways/Tech Prep Consortia throughout
the state by sponsoring an annual Symposium, Special Development
Project Awards for teachers, and maintaining this website.
Fun
Factory
In addition to giving information about various
careers in major clusters, this site suggests fun activities to try,
lists other resources for more related information and includes some
"cool facts" about careers. Teachers can register to receive
lesson plans and activity ideas.
Labor Market
Statistics
Power Point presentation of the fifteen Highest
Paying Jobs and the Jobs in Most Demand based on the latest statistics from
the U.S. Department of Labor
Made In Florida
Everyday, you enjoy things you may not realize were made in Florida.
Behind every product and technology you use, there is a world of
manufacturing. Today, in Florida, more than 16,000 different
companies and 400,000 people work in the manufacturing field.
See what kind of careers are available in the Manufacturing career
cluster.
My Majors
Do you need to find a college major? A minor? MyMajors provides
useful advice on university majors and college majors that a high
school senior or first year college student with your interests and
achievements might do well in.
National
Career Pathways/Tech Prep Website
NTPN assists
its members in planning, implementing, evaluating, and improving
Career Pathways/Tech Prep programs by pooling the resources of the country's leading
practitioners to provide a network of communication for new and
existing programs.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Office of Employment Projection's web site containing the
Occupational Outlook Handbook; Career Guide to Industries;
Occupation Outlook Quarterly; tomorrow's jobs overview; and how
industries differ plus much more.
Seeing Beyond High School
Interactive program for teens to help them prepare for the future
world of work. Running time is about 14 minutes and students can
print a Career Action Plan and Certificate of Completion
Teenager's Guide to the Real World
This
site contains excerpts from the book The Teenager's Guide to the
Real World. The following online chapters pertain to careers and the
future: Chapter 0: You Get to Design Your Life; Chapter 1: Money
Really Matters; Chapter 5: You Must Have a Job to Live Life; Chapter
6: Education is One Key to a Good Job; Chapter 7: Good Jobs Go to
Good Employees; Chapter 8: Suits Send Signals
Virtual Mentor
Look up information
about careers or look at the Knowledgebase of questions posted by
students and answered by volunteer mentors who are experienced in
their field. Students who belong to member schools can post
their own questions or discussions.
