Career and Major Resource Websites

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.​ 

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)

UNCW's What Can I Do With a Major In? links academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths and sample job titles.

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.​​

Directory of Associations has over 35,000 local, regional, and national professional associations. You can filter to sort by type, category, size, and state.​

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