Struggling with Career decision-making? The LWIT Employment Resource Center can help you with the career planning process. How? See video below about Career Center benefits!
ERC Career Planning Reources
The ERC's Career Choice Workshop, a two-hour session, covers the career change process and introduces participants to resources for understanding and evaluating career options. The Career Choice Workshop is offered the first and third Friday of each month. Please call the ERC front desk (425) 739-8113 to sign up and get the location.
Occupational and Labor Market Information
WOIS Comprehensive career planning site with assessments, occupational information and information on education and training institutions in Washington state. Call the ERC at (425) 739-8113 to get LWIT's site key for access.
https://fortress.wa.gov/esd/employmentdata/home - WA state Employment Security Dept. website includes brief profiles of many occupations and information about which jobs are in demand
Career Bridge - Lookup programs at state 2-year colleges, verify eligable training provider status, and see employment results for programs
Career One Stop The Federal government's career information site.
O*NET Information about occupations.
Assessment Sites
Outlined below are some of the free assessments available on publicly funded websites. The sites selected below represent the most useful sites and assessment versions.
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WOIS This site has 4 assessments. Access requires a code which can be obtained by calling the ERC at (425) 739-8113 and requesting LWIT's access code.
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Interest assessments (Career Interest areas, Interest Profiler)
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Skills assessment
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Values assessment (called Work Importance Locator)
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- Career One Stop
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Skills Profiler - complete an online skills checklist indicating what skills you have, and at what level of expertise - report relates scores to occupations.
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Careeer Trees Select from three categories (RAISEC (Holland) code, industry area, education level) to get a matching list of job titles.
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Learning Style Assessment An assessment from University of South Dakota TRiO program
- MBTI Overview
The Topic of Assessments (pros and cons)
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Job Hunter's Bible A general career planning and job search site from Dick Bolles, author of What Color is your Parachute? Read the article 6 (unless I Think of More) Rules about Taking Career Tests about the pros and cons of personality tests/career tests. The site also lists career assessment sites with evaluative description.
College Search
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WOIS Excellent resource for information about 2-year college programs in the state. Access to this site requires a code. Call the ERC front desk at (425) 739-8113 for LWIT's access code.
- Career Bridge - Lookup programs at state 2-year colleges, verify eligable training provider status and see employment results for programs
- Check out a College Search by program, college name, location, or industry to find the Washington state 2-year college that meets your needs. .
- Peterson's & College Board Major sites for information on 4-year colleges and universities.
Career Planning, Job Search and Career Advice
The following is a general list of a few of the best sites with advice on successful job search and managing your career.
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Job Hunters Bible Job search and Career Advice from Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute?
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Quint Careers As stated by the site: "Quintessential Careers is the ultimate career, job, and college site, offering comprehensive free expert career and job-hunting advice (through articles, tools, tips, samples, and tutorials), as well as links to all the best job sites."
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Riley Guide As stated by the site: "The Riley Guide introduces you to the online job search, listing many online sites and services that are useful for your job search. We do not post jobs nor resumes but instead point you to the places that do."
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Wet Feet Job listings and career advice focused on college students and recent college graduates.
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Career Builder The Career Advice page of the job search site Careerbuilder.com. Avoid the commercial links (which are ambiguously labeled). There is a section of "Advice and Resources Articles" which contains dozens of articles with valuable information.
