Research Guides: Careers: Careers

How to Use This Guide

Begin on this page and watch the short video about CareerOneStop.
Then read an article from reliable websites and from library databases to learn about the importance of career planning. You may be asked to login with your campus username and password if you are working from home.
Complete the Focus 2 Self-Assessments to create a career profile and find your Holland Code.
Use the Occupational Outlook Handbook from the U.S. Department of Labor to find summary information about careers.
Explore the resume builder in Job and Career Accelerator in Learning Express Library.

1. Watch this short video about CareerOneStop from the U.S. Department of Labor.

CareerOneStop
Find career, training, and job search resources sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Career One Stop Videos
Watch videos related to 550 occupations. Videos also available in Spanish.

2. Read Articles from Library Databases to Learn about Career Planning

You will login with your KCTCS username and password if you are working from home.

How To Pick And Stick To Career Goals
Offers tips to help in choosing career goals and sticking to them, which include taking full responsibility for one's career, setting short-, medium-, and long-term goals, and visualizing the future.
What We Are Learning about Guided Pathways. Part 1: A Reform Moves from Theory to Practice
Why do colleges care about guided career pathways? What's the research behind these practices.
The SECOND TIME around: More professionals returning to college to get new career skills
Discusses the trend of established professionals pursuing college education aiming for career change, and includes stories of professionals including Mark Pereira, Amanda Santana and Kent Daniel.

3. Complete the Focus 2 Self-Assessments to Create a Career Profile.

Focus 2 is an online, interactive, self-guided career, major and education planning system.

Click on the Focus 2 link to create a new account. Use the access code listed.

Focus 2: Create a New Account
Use the access code: success.

Click on the FOCUS 2 logo to login to your account where you can create a customized profile with self-assessments and explore matching career options.

4. Use the Occupational Outlook Handbook from the U.S. Department of Labor to Find Summary Information about Occupations.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Click the link for more Information about a variety of careers based on data from the US government.

5. Explore Other Career Tools.

Click on the O*Net logo to find specific job descriptions, tasks, and skills you can use to help build your resume.

O*Net OnLine
O*NET OnLine has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more! Includes information about necessary skills, wages, & education related to specific occupations. Search by interest, job outlook, etc.

Kentucky Career Center
Search for specific career information for Kentucky. Create an account or select "Explore options without registering" to search as a guest.
SKYCTC Programs
Explore available programs at SKYCTC.

Click on the Job and Career Accelerator logo or link to build a resume or use other career tools in Learning Express Library.

Job and Career Accelerator
Careers resources from Learning Express Library in the Kentucky Virtual Library. Resume Builder - Interview Skills - Job Search - Practice Tests - Computer Skills

Careers

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