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Walt Whitman High School

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Career Exploration

Career Exploration

Career planning is a planning process that assesses a student’s goals, skills, knowledge, values, constraints and interests to better focus the student to help them make better academic and personal decisions by connecting those decisions with personal career goals and interests.

Here are some tools to assist you through this career exploration process.

RIT's Career and Employment Trends - Job Outlook to 2024

Naviance

Naviance’s high-quality career exploration tools and assessments help students learn about themselves, linking personality type and interest with different careers. In the process, they gain a clear understanding of the academic preparation required to pursue careers that are likely to be fulfilling for them.

CareerZone

CareerZone is an innovative online career exploration and planning system designed especially for today's high-tech youth in New York State. CareerZone presents current and relevant occupational and labor market Information in a clear and interesting way, making career exploration and planning fun and easy.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides profiles for hundreds of occupations and describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes BLS employment projections for the 2010–20 decade.