Resources to help students with the question:
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Do your students have no idea what they want to be?
Below are resources to aid in the "Career Counseling" process.
We have developed our own Career Path Page and an accompanying Quiz to help guide students to a career path they find interesting.
Here is a lesson plan with Instructions on how to administer the SkillPointe Career Match Test, the Powerful Geography 'Career Path Quiz', and the Tucareers 'Career Test
*Update April 28, 2025: The Tucareeers 'Career Test' is no longer free.
CAREER AND INTERESTS TESTS
We have compiled a list of "career tests" that students can take to help find careers that may be of interest.
- Powerful Geography - Career Path Quiz
- SkillPointe (a visual quiz) - https://skillpointe.com/startpointe
- My Next Move, developed by the National Center for O*Net Development - https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip
- Tucareers (no longer free) - https://www.tucareers.com/
EXPLORE CAREER SITES
We have compiled a list of sites that students can browse and help find careers that may be of interest. This is also found on the bottom of the "Student Resources" page.
- SkillPointe - https://skillpointe.com/careers
- Tucareers - https://www.tucareers.com/career-paths AND https://www.tucareers.com/job-families
- O*Net Online - https://www.onetonline.org/find/
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/