College and K-12 Career Counseling!

Now back to my main populations- K-12 and college age. Career counseling is so important throughout the lifespan, yet whenever I talk about doing career activities with elementary school students everyone always looks at me weirdly and says, "Whaaat??". No matter. It is important to start getting kids to think about careers early because this is when they start to form their gender assumptions and other ideas about what types of careers they might be able to work in. This is when a 6 year old boy decides he can't be a nurse because only women are nurses. We need to change this!

Check out the following resources for working with K-12 through college aged populations:

College:

Career One Stop: http://www.acinet.org/

Students and Career Advisors: http://www.careeronestop.org/studentsandcareeradvisors/studentsandcareeradvisors.aspx

The Riley Guide: http://www.rileyguide.com/

CDDQ.org http://kivunim.huji.ac.il/cddq/

My Majors: http://www.mymajors.com/

After College: http://www.aftercollege.com/

College Recruiter: http://collegerecruiter.com/

Intern Jobs: http://www.internjobs.com/

Intern Bridge: http://www.internbridge.com/

Mapping Your Future: http://mappingyourfuture.org/PlanYourCareer/

Vault Guides: http://www.vault.com/wps/portal/usa

Sloan Career Cornerstone: http://www.careercornerstone.org/

Career clusters: http://www.asvabprogram.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=explore.ccluster

States Career Cluster Initiative: http://www.careerclusters.org/

K-12/College:

Career Cruising: http://www.careercruising.com/

Bridges: https://access.bridges.com/auth/login.do;jsessionid=6BC2207F9346DFEFAA703EE36FA6602D?targetUri=/portal/landingPage.do

Career Key: http://www.careerkey.org/

The Career Project: http://www.thecareerproject.org/

Activities:

Career Quest Worksheet: http://content.usatoday.com/educate/special/quest/quest.htm

Career Exploration Activities: http://www.breitlinks.com/careers/career_activities.htm

Curriculum Frameworks by Career Cluster: http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/dwdframe/

Elementary Career Curriculum: http://www.nd.gov/cte/crn/docs/ElementaryCareerCurriculum.pdf

K-12 Career Guidance Programs: http://web.utk.edu/~peterson/abington/MasterMatrix.html