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Career planning resources for college students

Whether you’re a college student or a counselor who works with students, you have unique career planning and job search needs. Some college students might be prepared to enter the workforce well trained for a specialized career; others may be at the beginning stages of exploring how to put their degrees and academic skills and knowledge to work in a meaningful career. CareerOneStop offers tools and resources for wherever a student is in their career journey.

For career explorers:

• Interest Assessment: A quick 30-questionassessment that matches your interests to careers that may be a good fitfor you.
• Work Values Matcher: Discover yourwork values to choose a career that's meaningful to you.
• Career Clusters and Occupation Profiles: Narrowed yourcareer ideas list down to options that might be a good fit for you? Drilldown deeper into any of more than 900 occupations, and learn about averagesalaries, projected employment demand, typical work tasks and activities,and more—each profile features a career video.
• Compare Cost of Living: Thinkingabout where you might live after graduation? Find out how much more orless it might cost to live in locations across the United States.

For job seekers:

• Internships: Learn about thiscareer-entry option and find links to search for opportunities in yourarea or interest.
• Job Finder: Ready to search for ajob in your field? Search CareerOneStop’s database of job postings,updated daily from three major sources (National Labor Exchange (NLx),Indeed, and ZipRecruiter).
• BusinessFinder: Want to identify businesses that might be hiringin your field? The Business Finder lets you search by industry,occupation, or business name.
• CertificationFinder: A certification on top of your degree can make youstand out for employers.
• Resume Guide: This step-by-step plan for creating an effective resume provides writing tips and samples to help you get started, as well as advice on how to market your resume and yourself.

Embed CareerOneStop videos on your own website

Did you know that all CareerOneStop videos are now available at YouTube.com/@CareerOneStop? You can use the embed code there to add any CareerOneStop career, industry, or other video to your own website. You can also find the embed codes, along with more documentation and help at CareerOneStop's Data Downloads: Career Videos.

Prefer to simply link to a video instead of embedding? You can add a link to any page in CareerOneStop’s Video Library.

A round-up of CareerOneStop resources just for counselors

Did you know CareerOneStop has How-to Guides, curriculum, webinars, outreach materials, and other resources for career counselors and other workforce development professionals? Use them for help to use CareerOneStop tools and resources to best meet their clients’ needs. Visit Career Advisor to learn more.

Latest CareerOneStop Blog posts

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CareerOneStop's event schedule

Look for our booth at this upcoming conference:

• National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) Youth Symposium
  November 6-8, 2023 | Las Vegas, NV

Questions? Please email info@careeronestop.org.