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Explore Careers
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Resources in this section build on materials developed by the Florida Department of Education to help educators, students, and families answer student career exploration questions such as: Where am I going? Where can I find information on careers, the labor market, career clusters, and connecting school to work?
Florida resources are listed first.
Florida Choices
http://www.flchoices.org
Student resources include Browse Careers by career cluster, a searchable Career Finder, Compare Careers, Career Video Profiles, and Gold Star Careers in Florida. Educator resources include research, white papers, and tools for tracking student progress and reporting. Parent resources include a Parent’s Primer on Career Exploration.
Career Cruiser Career and Education Planning Guide
http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/pdf/cruiser.pdf
Accessible version: http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/pdf/cruisertext.pdf
Student activities in this publication include checklists, games, and information on
"cool jobs", career clusters, career and technical education, and more.
Career Cruiser Teacher’s Guide
http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/pdf/cruiser_guide.pdf
This guide contains Career Cruiser lesson plans and activities.
Parent Primer on Career Exploration
http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/pdf/parent_primer06.pdf
Accessible RTF: http://www.project10.info/files/parentprimer.rtf
Parent resources include information on career clusters, workplace changes, and high demand jobs.
SIMPLY Careers! Helping Students with Disabilities Effectively Plan their Futures through Comprehensive Career Development: A Guide for Persons Involved in Transition Planning
http://info.fldoe.org/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-1415/SIMPLYatt.pdf
Educator resources for Steps 2 and 3 (Career Focus and Career Research/Pathway) of the seven step career development process include information on matching interests and talents with career focus areas, researching careers and occupations, and reproducible masters for career focus cards, career pathway cards, and a career research activity sheet.
More Successful Transition Planning: 20 Top Questions and Ways to Answer Them
http://www.bridges.com/transguide/index.html
This resource answers questions asked by students and teachers about careers and occupations and how they relate to secondary and post-secondary education. Student worksheets are included. (Registration required.)
Technical Assistance Paper (TAP): Non-Paid Community-Based Vocational Educational (CBVE) Programs
http://www.fldoe.org/ese/pdf/y2006-2.pdf
This TAP discusses guidelines and issues for non-paid CBVE vocational exploration which briefly exposes students to a variety of work settings in order to investigate their interests, values, beliefs, strengths, and needs in relation to characteristics of work environment.
Florida Disability Mentoring Day
http://www.abletrust.org/ndmd/
This event promotes career development for students and job-seekers with disabilities through job shadowing and hands-on career exploration.
Florida High School/High Tech
http://www.abletrust.org/hsht/
A community-based partnership designed to provide high school students with disabilities the opportunity to explore jobs or postsecondary education leading to technology- related careers by providing a broad range of academic, career development and experiential resources and experiences.
High School/High Tech Program Guide
http://www.ncwd-youth.info/hsht/program-guide
Educator resource that describes the five components of HS/HT and provides information on launching, sustaining, managing, evaluating, and marketing a HS/HT program.
Paving the Way to Work: A Guide to Career Focused Mentoring
http://www.ncwd-youth.info/paving-the-way-to-work
This educator resource contains information on designing mentoring programs for youth, including youth with disabilities, in the transition phase to adulthood.
U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration (DOLETA) Job & Career Information
http://www.doleta.gov/jobseekers/career_options.cfm
Free on-line career exploration resources include links to Career Voyages, O*Net On-line, CareerOneStop, Career Guide to Industries, Occupational Outlook Quarterly, and career videos.
America’s Career OneStop - Career Videos
http://acinet.org/acinet/
This Web site contains videos of hundreds of careers organized by the U.S. Department of Education's 16 career clusters.
