Career Center

Steps for Career Planning

Career Videos: These films are restricted to Rio Salado students. For login instructions, see Library Login Help.

Career Counseling

• Planning Your Career
  Commonwealth of Virginia
• Successful Career Plans
  George Washington University
• Introduction to Career Planning and Implementation
  “Putting ideas into action is the focus of this overview video, which outlines steps expanded upon in subsequent episodes: making a career decision, creating an action plan, and launching the search for work opportunities.”

Self Assessment

• Quintessential Careers
  
• Self Assessment Resources
  The Riley Guide
• Skills Search
  O*net OnLine
• Transferable Skills Survey
  University of Minnesota Duluth
• Rio Salado Counseling Services 
• Career and Life Values
  The relationship between students' values and daily choices is discussed in this video, which also connects values to career decisions. Students identify some of their key values and consider how personal background may have shaped them.
• Personality and Interests
  This video demonstrates the connections between personality, interests, and work preferences. Students get in touch with their primary interest patterns and aspects of their personality through various exercises.
• The Right Job for Your Personality
  This program shows viewers how to select a rewarding and satisfying career by engaging in a reflective self-assessment process-a process designed to help them gain insights into themselves by looking at different aspects of their lives including their interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle. Shows how to identify and organize a variety of personal information into a form that's optimal for making informed career decisions!
• Self-Knowledge and Beliefs
  This video presents simple methods for expanding self-awareness, and explores links between beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Students practice identifying personal beliefs about success, and begin to develop their Personal Career Profile.
• What Employers Want: Skills and Attitudes
  Attitudes and characteristics essential for success are explored in this video. It shows students how to recognize their transferable skills and evaluate work readiness.
• Where Are You Now?
  The concept of life roles is introduced in this video, as well as the importance of support. Students evaluate their roles-work, family, leisure, self-improvement, and community-and begin to identify key people in their personal support system.

Occupational Information

• Arizona Career Information System
  User Name: RIOSALADO05
  Password: 4azcis02
• ExploreHEALTHCareers.org
• Occupational Information
  O*Net
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  describes about 250 occupations in detail, covering about 104 million jobs--or 85% of all jobs in the nation.
• Introduction to Career and Educational Exploration
  Changes in the world of work are examined in this video. It introduces three major areas of change-technology, globalization, and workforce demographics-as well as strategies for adapting, which are e...
• thecareerproject.org
  Jobweb

College/ University Guides

• GradSchools.com
• e-ReferenceDesk

Decision Making/Goal Setting

• Decision-Making
  University of Waterloo
• Make Connections
  University of California-Berkley
• What can I do with my Major?
  University of Washington
• What Can I do with my Major?
  University of Maryland
• 7 Step Decision Making Model
  University of North Florida
• Career Exploration Links 
  University of Berkley
• Goal Setting 
  University of South Wales
• Goal Setting Tips 
  MyGoals.com
• Career Evaluation 
  This program illustrates how to relate interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle to specific occupations in the world of work. Based on the common-sense notion that you do best at what you really like to do, this video shows viewers how to find an occupation with job requirements that closely match their interests. Nothing predicts high workplace satisfaction like a close match between job duties and the employee-to-be!
• Decision-Making Strategies
  This video looks at rational-linear and intuitive decision-making techniques. Personal decision-making style is featured, showing how a person's values, willingness to take risks, and ability to be objective all influence the decision-making process.
• Evaluating Career Options
  This video illustrates how to evaluate career options based on the Three C's: content, conditions, and compensation. It expands on the Personal Career Profile and explains how to use information gathered from occupational research.
• The Right Job for Your Personality
  This program shows viewers how to select a rewarding and satisfying career by engaging in a reflective self-assessment process-a process designed to help them gain insights into themselves by looking at different aspects of their lives including their interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle. Shows how to identify and organize a variety of personal information into a form that's optimal for making informed career decisions!
• Goal-Setting and Action-Planning
  This video helps students establish criteria for attainable goals and objectives, and shows them how to evaluate goals on the basis of these criteria. Students begin to draft their own goal lists and....
• Researching Career Options: New Technologies and Current Techniques
  This video focuses on finding career options using both print and electronic sources of occupational information. Using key information categories, students develop approaches that will lead to strong and thorough research efforts.

Creating Your Career Path

• Education and Training Finder
  Career Onestop
• Career Research
  University of Waterloo
• Manage Your Career-Evaluate Your Career Path
  Career Onestop

Academic Advisement

• Advisement

Scholarships

• www.collegenet.com
• www.fastweb.com
• www.free-4U.com
• www.freschinfo.com
• www.freescholarship.com
• www.scholaraid.com
• www.scholarships.com

Financial Aid

• www.collegeboard.com
• www.edfund.com
• www.ed.gov/index.jsp
• www.estudentloan.comm
• www.scholaraid.com
• www.finaid.com
• www.WiredScholar.com
• Career Development Grants