Students, it’s not too early to think about the career you’d like to have after graduating from high school. It takes preparation, work, and determination to get where you want to go in life.
Here are some helpful resources to help you become more informed in your quest in following a career that you’re passionate about.
BLS K-12 Career Information organizes jobs by the interests teenagers of today have. Your first step is to identify what subjects you’re really interested in now:
- Reading
- Law
- Building and Fixing Things
- Math
- Science
- Music and Arts
- Sports
- Helping People
- Managing Money
- Social Studies
- Nature
- Computers
Once you narrow the list to 2-3 areas, click HERE to do some research on your own and find out about individual careers that include helpful information like what the job is like, how to get ready for it, how much it pays, how many are currently employed, how many will be employed in the future, and other careers that are similar.
Still not sure what you want to do when you grow up? Here is a Public Library website that shares a list of online resources ranging from career tests to job preparation websites:
http://teens.tulsalibrary.org/collegeandcareers/choosing_career.htm
Here are some job interview videos that may help as well:
">Here’s a video on what to do and what not to do to be successful during a job interview.
">


