Cool Websites for Job, School, and Career Information
Key to successful career and life planning are knowing yourself well, researching your options and being well-prepared. The internet has a wealth of tools and information to help you with these tasks. Following are suggested sites.
General
 
Career Exploration
Wondering what job is right for you? Here are several websites that give employment trends, career information, ideas for planning, etc.
 
Job Application Skills
 
Education Planning
  • America's Learning Exchange - eduaction and training information for students, education providers, curriculum developers, and employers
  • The College Board - information on colleges, testing, etc.
  • College Net - college information, i.e. schools, scholarship, distance learning, etc.
  • Counselor-O-Matic - by PrincetonReview. An advanced search engine that combines your academic and extracurricular history with your preferences to help you find the right college.
  • Job Corps NE - information on New England's Job Corps program
  • NH Higher Education Assistance Foundation- informatin for students and parents on college planning and funding
  • National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship NFTE's mission is to teach entrepreneurship to low-income young people, ages 11 through 18, so they can become economically productive members of society by improving their academic, business, technology and life skills
  • Peterson's - guide to colleges
  • Scholarships
  • SchoolGrants (click on "financial aid") offers free access to a comprehensive database that contains information about more than 600,000 individual awards totaling more than $1.8 billion in available college funding opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
  • The Vermont Student Assistance Corp. (VSAC) helps Vermonters who want to go to college or other training after high school. VSAC provides grants, loans, scholarships, career and education planning, and general information about how you, or others in your family, can get the education you want.

Job Opportunities

Commercial Job and Career sites

General job seeking tips. Most charge a fee for services such as distributing your résumé to potential employers, but you can still access plenty of free information.

Parts of this list are adapted from New Hampshire Job Notes 2000, a publication of the State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (SOICC) of New Hampshire and New Hampshire Employment Security, Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau.

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