Career and Major Resource Websites

Candid Career (opens in new window) allows you to select from thousands of career video interviews to learn about what professionals do in a wide variety of careers. 

Choices 360 (opens in new window) is a career database where you can read current information about various careers including salary, outlook and education.

me3® SMC (opens in new window) is a free online interactive major and career quiz, available to all high school students, prospective students, current SMC students, and career seekers.  me3® SMC guides you through a series of visual choices, which represents your levels of interest in data, things, people and ideas. After completing the quiz, you will be matched with potential career options and degrees/certificates offered at SMC that best match your interests and passions; therefore, allowing you to better understand your interests, options and future.  

Search for information about hundreds of jobs based on key words, by industries, or undecided. You can take a quick assessment to obtain a list of possible careers to explore on My Next Move (opens in new window) .

O*NET OnLine (opens in new window) has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, students, researchers, and more!

Roadmap to Careers by Road Trip Nation (opens in new window) is a website where you can explore an archive of videos made by regular people interviewing diverse professionals from around the world. 

ElimiMajor (opens in new window) is an exercise developed by the staff of Santa Monica College's Career Services Center. As career professionals we have learned that students may not know what they want to choose as a major, but they always know what they DON'T want as their major. You will have the opportunity to identify majors that you are NOT interested in, and circle the majors that you are interested in.

me3® SMC (opens in new window) is a free online interactive major and career quiz, available to all high school students, prospective students, current SMC students, and career seekers.  me3® SMC guides you through a series of visual choices, which represents your levels of interest in data, things, people and ideas. After completing the quiz, you will be matched with potential career options and degrees/certificates offered at SMC that best match your interests and passions; therefore, allowing you to better understand your interests, options and future.  (Available as soon as Winter 2021)

UT's What Can I Do with this Major? (opens in new window) provides summaries for majors, sample job titles, possible employers, professional associations, and resources for finding employment.

Directory of Professional Associations (opens in new window) has over 35,000 local, regional, and national professional associations. You can filter to sort by type, category, size, and state.

Leverage LinkedIn (opens in new window) as you build a meaningful career. Learn how to create a high-quality profile, build a network and boost your professional brand on the LinkedIn platform.

Through WorkforceReady (opens in new window) , participate in a 6-week self-paced online course for you to develop essential skills sets including time management, creative problem-solving, resume building, communication skill development and professional relationship building) to help you be successful in securing any entry-level job and start your career.  

After high school and college you will need to work to pay for housing, transportation, clothes etc. View California Career Zone (opens in new window) to find out how much money you will need to have available.

O*NET OnLine (opens in new window) has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, students, researchers, and more!

Salary Surfer (opens in new window) helps you make important decisions about investing time and money in your college education.  It provides information about the earnings of recent California community college graduates who received an award in a specific program of study.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (opens in new window) (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the federal government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics