OCCUPATIONAL RESOURCES: PART III.
Last week, I wrote about the Occupational Outlook Handbook a handy reference guide in career exploration. The week before, I explained ONET online, another career exploration/information tool. This week, I describe the attributes of NY Career Zone for exploring careers for career change and oneself in how he/she relates to chosen fields in a professional capacity.
New York State offers a wealth of free information on everything you’ve always wanted to know about careers but might not have known where to find it. A treasure trove of career and occupational information is just a few clicks away.
NY Career Zone www.nycareerzone.org is an affiliate resource sight to ONET online and also created by the New York State Department of Labor and United States Department of Labor.
In a wide array of in-depth career research, self assessments and other resources, the individual seeking an occupational pursuit complimentary to his or her talents, passion, strengths, temperaments and interests, can obtain a profile of one’s ideal or dream job. Equipping oneself with the answers to questions and necessary tools is the first critical step in preparation for pursuing and training for a chosen occupation.
NY Career Zone offers career groupings, like the other two resources online, and self assessments in the form of interest inventories, personality and work ethic/style maps. You winning combinations are one of a kind, as are your fingerprints. Are you investigative or artistic? Social or conventional? Realistic or enterprising?
NY Career Zone also offers personal budgeting assistance and all grade level teaching tools for teachers and guidance counselors to assist their students.
You can record your online exploration results and self-tests in a career zone section called the Portfolio and return to your saved record at another time.
If you’ve longed for the privilege of self discovery or need to explore your intellectual interests and interior terrain for your next job and cannot afford the paid services of a private career counselor, these free, sophisticated resources are a right-hand aid you can count on in the privacy of your own home and online space.
-By The Job Enthusiast Who Won’t Rest Till Everyone Is Put To Work!
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