Career Exploration : Resources

Are you challenged with deciding whether a career in medicine is right for you? Check out the AAMC's premed resources to learn about medically related experience, preparing for the application process, and get inspired by personal stories from medical students, residents, and physicians.

Offers 100's of video-taped informational interviews with professionals from all career areas.

Learn here about career paths, industries, and opportunities for gaining experience in the field of your choosing.

Use this search option to retrieve information about a career choice.

Type a career in the search box and click search to retrieve information about that career.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, this site offers employment information and inspiration.

Career videos are organized into 16 clusters, or related types of work. Select a category to view a list of videos related to that cluster. Videos include career details such as tasks, work settings, education needed, and more.

This career exploration site provides video interviews with individuals employeed in a wide variety of occupations.

Search, browse or query through over 900 different careers. Read career profiles, job descriptions, educational requirements, and career outlook information. Find out what kind of salary to expect, watch short videos, and even learn about the types of people that typically go into each career.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) provides information on what workers do; the work environment; education, training, and other qualifications; pay; the job outlook; information on state and area data; similar occupations; and sources of additional information, for 324 occupational profiles, covering about 4 out of 5 jobs in the economy.

The O*NET Program is the nation's primary source of occupational information.
Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy.
Type a profession in the search box in the upper left and it will offer suggested careers. Select the suggested career that best matches.

If you are unsure about your future career path, we provide information to help you research different career fields, expected earnings, employment outlook, and growth prospects.