Career, College & Business Resources
Updated 1/09/08Career Information and Resources On the Internet
2008-2009 Occupational Outlook Handbook
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The rules for competing in a technologically-advanced global economy are changing everyday. The jobs of the future will require a skilled person who can quickly adapt to a changing workplace. The Occupational Outlook Handbook provides essential work-related information about the world of work and the qualifications that will be needed by tomorrow's workers.
- Career Services: Jobweb
- Lots of career information, gathered for use by college students, but also helpful to those who are not in college, or those who are planning on attending college in order to prepare for a career.
- Career Mosaic
- A career center online, with information on careers, training, and jobs! Lots of career and job information gathered for use by college students, but also helpful for those who are not in college.
- Career Magazine
- A commercial publisher offers information on careers and jobs.
- Peterson's Education Center
- An Internet central resource for information on Education and Lifelong Learning. Information on colleges, Careers, Jobs, vocational-technical schools, and lots more,
- Preparing Your Child for College
- A Resource Book for Parents - Second Edition - 1994. It's never too
early to think about college--about the benefits of a college education
and about ways to put college within reach academically and financially.
Throughout their school years, students make academic and other decisions
that affect whether they will be eligible to enter college. You--working
with others--can help your child make these decisions wisely.
Education Connections: College and Training Resources
- College Board Online
- Home Page of the people who create the entrance exams that most students take to get into college. Provides information for students, counselors, parents, regarding test dates, sample test questions, college search, and even provides an online SAT registration.
- CollegeView
- An online center that offers a lot of information about colleges, including a searcher that allows you to locate colleges according to your requirements and priorities. Includes financial aid, student news and other information.
- CollegeNET
- An online source for information about institutions of higher education.
- California Virtual Campus
- The California Virtual Campus ties together the online and distance education offerings of every accredited college and university in California.
- California Community Colleges
- Links to the Home Pages of the numerous community colleges of California. Lots of information at your command!
- California State Universities
- Links to all the campuses of the California State Universities.
- CSU Mentor
- On online service that gives most of the information needed about California State University system colleges, including online admissions applications, financial aid, comparative costs at each campus, and much more about all California state universities.
- University of California Campuses
- Top-level servers at the UC campuses are listed here. Campuses may have many more servers listed on their home pages.
- College and University Home Pages
- This list contains universities and colleges all over the world.
DT>Travel
Guide
- If you need to visit a college campus or future job site, this information may be of great help to you.
- If you need to visit a college campus or future job site, this information may be of great help to you.
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Financial Aid Resources
- The Student Guide 2007 - 2009
- Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education has lots of information for those filling out the FAFSA grant application, plus much other scholarship and student loan related information.
- FAFSA Instructions
- Students applying for federal student aid must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The most important advice we can give about completing the FAFSA is to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. The instructions included with the application explain how each question is to be answered. Because the instructions cannot address every possible family situation, in this document we will discuss the purpose of the FAFSA questions and discuss how information should be reported in some unusual cases.
- California Student Aid Commission
- During the past four decades the California Student Aid Commission has provided financial aid for more than two generations of students to help them with the costs of higher education. The equivalent of nearly one-in-eleven Californians has benefited directly from its college assistance programs. The Commission guaranteed over $1.8 billion in student loans for the 1994-95 academic year, an overall volume increase of 10.4 percent over the prior year.
- Financial Aid
- A comprehensive collection of annotated links to most financial aid resources on the Internet, maintained by an author of a book on the subject.
- fastWeb
- Search for available scholarships. Requires that you set up a
personal profile, which allows you to receive follow-up information.
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