The following websites are resources you can explore when making decisions related
to your major and/or career.
Career Exploration
Resources to help you explore a new or different career, understand the skills you
need to do a certain job, learn about employment prospects in a field, etc.
Candid Career allows you to select from thousands of career video interviews to learn about what
professionals do in a wide variety of careers.
Choices 360 is a career database where you can read current information about various careers
including salary, outlook and education.
Find tips for people considering a career, best and worst aspects of a career, job
tasks and everyday responsibilities, getting a job, and education and degrees required
on Inside Career Info.
me3® SMC 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)
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.
O*NET OnLine has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, students,
researchers, and more!
Roadmap to Careers by Road Trip Nation is a website where you can explore an archive of videos made by regular people interviewing
diverse professionals from around the world.
Major Exploration
Resources to help you explore and develop your major
ElimiMajor 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 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? provides summaries for majors, sample job titles, possible employers, professional
associations, and resources for finding employment.
Professional Development
Resources to help aid in your professional development
Directory of Professional Associations has over 35,000 local, regional, and national professional associations. You can
filter to sort by type, category, size, and state.
Leverage LinkedIn 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, 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.
Salary Information
Resources related to salary by industry
After high school and college you will need to work to pay for housing, transportation,
clothes etc. View California Career Zone to find out how much money you will need to have available.
O*NET OnLine has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, students,
researchers, and more!
Salary Surfer 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(BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the federal government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics