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Take an online suite of inventories relating to your career interests, abilities, and values; find information about hundreds of occupations; locate colleges by characteristics and more.
User ID and Password required.
Visit the Library's Reference Center Desk or call the College and Career Information Center at (630) 942-2386 to get your login and password (have your C.O.D. Library card ready).
(Available in the Library, in C.O.D. computer labs, and from home to College of DuPage Library cardholders only)
Take a work values inventory and find information about hundreds of occupations.
Visit the Library's Reference Center Desk or call the College and Career Information Center at (630) 942-2386 to request the web address and sign-in information (have your C.O.D. Library card ready).
(Available to College of DuPage Library cardholders only)
Find information about hundreds of occupations; locate colleges and financial aid by characteristics; take excellent Interest, Values, and Skills assessment inventories.
If a request for a login and password comes up when you click on "School Sort," visit the Library's Reference Center Desk or call the College and Career Information Center at (630) 942-2386 to request sign-in information.
(You must be an Illinois resident to use segments of CIS Horizons.)
A collection of "day in the life" stories of people in a variety of professions.
Very easy to use inventory with results organized according to Holland Code occupation types. Takes about 3 minutes.
Create a Free Account, then access such interest, skill, and personality inventories as the Career Key, O*NET Skills Search, and Personality and Jung Typology quizzes. Takes about 10 minutes.
Short quiz (only 24 questions) that leads to results from the Birkman color method of organizing career possibilities. Register to get specific career title results.
Choose from among 60 activities you might like to do and receive Holland Code analysis of career areas that fit your interests.
A "must see" site. Links to a wide array of internet sites, from outlook guides, to general career sites, to salary and wage surveys.
Useful overviews, although earning information and outlook are particular to California.
Links to Internet career sites. Also a great address for links to salary surveys.
Full-text of the most essential career information source in the United States.
Information on over 950 occupations, including work tasks, skills, abilities, values, and more for each job.
Excellent "Day in the Life..." profiles and more under Industries. A hybrid site with both free and for-fee features.
Well-done Career Profiles include overview, requirements, outlook, career tracks, and compensation. Interesting interviews under "Real People Profiles."
PDF images of over 40 career guides listing books and videos in the College and Career Information Center. Sources will include information on the career, job search and resume writing, and schools and technical programs for career preparation.
To access these guides, you may need to download Adobe Reader.
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