Are you looking to learn more about different career resources that exist?
This resource page exists to highlight some online tools and direct students to do some self-exploration. There are many tools out there for career exploration and preparedness but it can become overwhelming.
These are some of the tools and features that Cabrillo College Career Services staff encourage students to check out.
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Career Podcast: What to Be
What to Be is a local radio show hosted by Your Future Is Our Business, a Santa Cruz non-profit which helps students explore careers. They interview and highlight the careers of inspirational people in Santa Cruz County and ask them to tell us what their job is really like, and how they got there!
The show airs Sundays at 7pm 90.7fm KSQD Santa Cruz, or streamed online at ksqd.org. New episodes uploaded every week!
Pro Tip - there are roughly 200 interviews listed here and growing, so to group by Career Cluster and/or Industry, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Latest tracks by " What To Be." Enjoy!
Candid Career
The newly renovated Candid Career + provides you with a fun and effective way to explore careers and learn about job search strategies through thousands of 1-2 minute video clips that are updated weekly:
Discover career fields that you didn’t even know existed! Industry professionals share their job descriptions, backgrounds, and career prep advice.
Hear from industry professionals about what it takes to get hired in their field.
Learn from “Get Hired” advice videos covering interviewing, resume writing, networking, and many more topics to help you land that job!
Go ahead and take some time to explore this great resource today! You will be glad you did.
Career Coach Tutorial
Career Coach is an interactive and free career exploration tool that allows you to match information on job titles, education paths, and job market data for the local region based upon your interests from a simple interest inventory to possible careers.
Personalized results will include which programs at Cabrillo can prepare you for the career(s) you're interested in, what job openings exist that are related to your career interests, and in-demand skills for various careers.
Additionally, Career Coach includes an easy-to-use resume builder.
ProTip: Use the Career Coach Worksheet to help you get the most out of the online career tool.
My Next Move
An easy-to-use electronic tool that enables users to explore occupations and find related information, including job openings, job outlook information, salaries, apprenticeships, and other related education and training programs. Available free online and specially designed for students.
ProTip: The My Next Move website is a student-friendly interface of O*NET.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations, and links to professional associations.
ProTip: Students are encouraged to view the informational video, "Occupational Handbook Tutorial."
O*NET
A free website for easy access to information on over 900 occupations. View data on tasks, skills, knowledge, abilities, job zones, tools and technology, interests, work styles, work values, and work context.
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Mi Próximo Paso incluye tareas, aptitudes, información sobre salarios y más de 900 carreras diferentes.
ProTip: Students are encouraged to view the informational video about using the "O*Net".
What Can I Do With This Major?
Whether you are exploring multiple majors or searching for information about your chosen field, What Can I Do With This Major? will help you connect majors to careers. Learn about the typical career areas and the types of employers that hire people with each major, as well as strategies to make you a more marketable candidate. Continue your research on majors and careers through the websites provided.
How to use these eBooks
Click the link and login with your Canvas/Cabrillo login
Use the left-menu to navigate to a specific chapter, then scroll down to read each page
When you are done, close the window/tab so that another student can read!
Problems? Questions? Use the Ask a Librarian online form
eBook: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
This New York Times Bestseller reveals how you can recapture "long lost" goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and restructure your life so that it has meaning, direction, and joy.
Pro Tip: Please close the web browser when you're done reading so other students can view the book.
eBook: What Color Is Your Parachute? Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success
This 2021 edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on today's job market. Strategies include building an online resume, making the most of social media tools to network effectively, interviewing virtually with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible. At its core is Richard N. Bolles's famed "Flower Exercise," a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more.
Pro Tip: Please close the web browser when you're done reading so other students can view the book.
eBook: What Color Is Your Parachute? For College: Pave Your Path From Major to Meaningful Work
Covers deciding on a major, designing a four-year plan with your interests and values in mind, creating impactful social media, developing a resume that stands out in a crowd, and making invaluable connections to the workplace.
Pro Tip: Please close the web browser when you're done reading so other students can view the book.
eBook: You Majored in What? Designing Your Path From College to Career
Using techniques and ideas that have guided thousands of college students to successful careers, a top career counselor shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it—no matter what you studied in college. You will learn to map your experiences for insights into your strengths and passions, design possible lives, and create goals destined to take you wherever you want to go.
Pro Tip: Please close the web browser when you're done reading so other students can view the book.
eBook: Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
Finding a career path that you're passionate about can be difficult, but it doesn't have to be! With this bestselling guide, learn how to find a fulfilling career that fits your personality. With the global economy's ups and downs, the advent of astonishing new technology, the migration to online work and study, and the ascendancy of mobile communication, this 6th edition (2021) has been updated for the modern workforce.