Career Exploration

God has given you gifts and talents to use for His glory.  Career Exploration involves seeking His will and guidance from His Word.  The tools listed below are useful as long as you seek His guidance first and always.

Resources specific to Crown College:

• FOCUS 2: a self-paced career guidance tool designed to help you explore, discover and make choices about major and career options that match your work and leisure interests, personality, values and skills.
• What Can I do with this Major: a very comprehensive site to explore majors, careers, and strategies to enter those careers.
• Four Year Career Development Plan: a guide for your time at Crown.

Additional Web sites:

• Occupational Outlook Handbook: a great source for career information. Includes job outlook, education requirements and salary information.
• O*Net: find occupations and how your skills match them.
• ISeek: another great place to explore careers and industries.
• Minnesota Careers: a great tool to explore careers in Minnesota and beyond. Is a partner with ISeek.
• Career Exploration from "Find How" web site: a good source to learn about careers in many categories. 
• Career One Stop: career assessment, exploration and job search tools.
• Career Information from College Grad Job Hunter: very good and easy to navigate.
• Career Planning Resources: career assessment and careers information.
• Human Metrics: take a free Jung typology assessment (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
• Informational Interviewing: talk to or meet with people to explore careers. A great step by step guide from Northeastern Univ.
• My Major: a site that can help you chose a major.
• Salary Information: for you and your parents. Search by job category and location.
• Salary Calculator from NACE