Online Educator Resources
Assessments
Free Assessment Resources
California
CareerZone
California CareerZone offers free web-based career
information and provides self-assessment tools, occupational
descriptions including skills and required training, labor
market information, and occupational videos.
ASVAB
Career Exploration Program
The ASVAB was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense.
The ASVAB Career Exploration Program was developed with
input from a panel of career development experts and
designed to encourage students to increase their level of
self-knowledge and to understand how that information could
be linked to civilian and military occupational
characteristics.
Encouragement
Services, Inc.
The Career and Postsecondary Encouragement Network®
Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) is an online guidance
assessment, reporting, and communications system designed to
help counselors and other education support professionals
document and respond to students' career and education
needs, interests, and experiences. ESI offers the UEP at no
cost to schools and education support programs.
Assessment Resources available for Purchase
Consulting
Psychologists Press, Inc.
SII (Strong Interest Inventory) measures an individuals interests in a broad range of occupations, work activities, leisure activities, and school subjects. The SII is an essential resource for:
- people considering a career change
- employees seeking more satisfying work with an organization
- students exploring major and career options
- organizations looking to retain star performers and key staff
- midlife and older adult planning retirement
Value Scale measures 21 values designed to help an individual understand values in relation to life roles and evaluate importance of the work role with other life roles.
Career Beliefs Inventory is an inventory used to help people identify career beliefs that may inhibit their ability to make career decisions that are in their best interests. The results are computed for 25 scales under the following five headings: My Current Career Situation, What seems Necessary for My Happiness, Factors that Influence my Decisions, Changes I am Willing to Make, and Effort I am Willing to Initiate.
Career/LifeSkills
Resources
Inc.
Provides resources for counselors, teachers, and human
resource professionals regarding a wide range of assessments
and tools to help individuals find a career that interests
them.
Pearson PsychCorp
Is the exclusive distributor of the Harrington-O'Shea Career
Decision-Making® System-Revised (CDM®-R) and
the CDM®
Internet. The CDM-R system provides a
self-scored assessment that helps students and other career
planners identify their occupational interests, values, and
abilities - and match these dimensions to career options.
The CDM-R inventory on the Internet gives students, adults,
schools and other organizations added flexibility and power
in using the assessment.
Guides/Resources for the Counselor
California
Healthy
& Ready to Work
Provides The Healthy and Ready to Work GUIDE, an assessment
tool/transitional guide for adolescents with special needs
and disabilities.
School To Employment
Pathways System (STEPS).
Users can explore California higher education programs and
the occupations they can prepare students to enter.
Information includes: which degrees are necessary to pursue
specific careers; what jobs a particular degree prepares
students for obtaining; which jobs require a license; which
college or university is offering the degree in specific
career areas; and more.
The California Labor
Market Overview
Provided by the Employment Development Department. You can
explore careers and trends happening in the state.
The Riley Guide
Offers information and links to assist you in the online job
search.
Job
Postings
Magazine
Provides information on job sources, job market updates,
salaries, sample resumes, interview questions and
strategies, internship advice.
American
Association for Employment in Education
A professional international organization that provides
information for professionals at colleges, universities, and
school districts in areas of research, publications, and
networking.
School Wise Press
A website that offers information for counselors and parents
regarding California schools.
CTE: Learning that works for America
Nationwide, Career
Technical Education (CTE) programs are changing, evolving
and innovating to better serve the country’s needs. CTE is
preparing students of all ages to help drive America’s
success and vitality. Further, it is creating an educational
environment that integrates core academics with real-world
relevance. CTE is leading this change, transforming
expectations and making a difference for students, for
secondary and postsecondary schools, for businesses and
industry—for America.
School Spring
An online job listing for educators.
Social Work Jobs
Social Work Jobs listed at all professional levels, in
various settings, and locations around the world. The
website also includes articles and resources relating to
careers in the social work profession.
CA
Career
Technical Education Standards and Framework
CTE Standards and Framework that includes sample classes and
occupations for 58 Pathways in 15 Industry Sectors. (revised
wording)
National Career Development Guidelines
The National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG) are a
framework for thinking about the knowledge and skills young
people and adults need to manage their careers effectively,
from making decisions about school to taking that first job
and beyond.
P21 Framework Partnership for 21st
Century Skills
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national
organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for
every student.
Secretaries
Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)
The essential skills young people need to succeed in the
world of work.
Equipped for the Future (EFF)
Work Readiness Credential
Work readiness is the key to linking individual and business
success to transform the entry level workplace through a
focus on Value Creating Relationships.
The
Association of American Colleges and Universities
Essential Learning Outcomes College Learning for the New
Global Century
This report spells out the essential aims, learning
outcomes, and guiding principles for a twenty-first-century
college education.
California Community
Colleges Taxonomy of Programs (TOP)
Approved and projected California community college
programs.
Resources Counselors can use with Students
America's Career
Infonet
America's Career InfoNet is a web portal to many other
career information sites.
California Colleges
CaliforniaColleges.edu is a source of information for
college and career planning in California.
