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Do you need to think about your career and goals more? try some of the activities & links below.

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These interactive sites provide online activities and lessons plans relating to career exploration, career decision making and career guidance.

[|The Career Interests Game]
From the University of Missouri Career Center, this game is based on Dr. John Holland's theory people and work environment can be loosely classified into six groups.

=Personality tests=

[|Kisa Personality Test]

[|BBC Science and Nature Personality Test]

[|Humanmetrics]

=Learning Styles=

[|Edna careers]
edna has a large collection of evaluated resources related to careers. This theme page can be found at Below is a sample of the information available.


 * [|Career opportunities]
 * [|Careers]
 * [|Careers education]
 * [|Courses and other activities]
 * [|Enterprise and careers]
 * [|Social, educational & employment skills]
 * [|VET in schools]
 * [|Work readiness]

[|Employability skills]
==[|Job Guide]==

The Job Guide provides an in-depth look at a range of occupations, and their education and training pathways. It also gives useful information about how to work out what occupations suit you best, based on your interests and abilities. You can narrow the list of around 1500 occupations, specialisations and alternative job names by using [|Job Search] The Job Guide also shows useful contact addresses under each entry so that you can find out more detailed information about the occupation. The information included here was correct at the time of publication, but requirements for courses may have changed. Check specific entry requirements with institutions, and the Australian Apprenticeship options at your school, before you make subject choices for Years 11 or 12.

Come for the jobs, stay for the networking. Zumeo is a career discovery tool and professional social network. Build a Live Resumé, discover your strengths through our assessment tool, and get matched to relevant jobs. Then get connected with your friends, colleagues, and other important people

=Job hunting=

[|70 sites from Mashable]
=Job interviews=

[|About.com]
With About.com’s ever growing catalog of articles on just about every subject, it’s not surprising they have a section dedicated to job interviews. They have suggested answers for numerous questions, tips on sending thank you letters, tips for your resume and more.

[|AceTheInterview]
AceTheInterview is totally dedicated to about every aspect of the job hunt you can think of. Their interview section has important notes on things such as do’s & don’ts, the touchy area of salary negotiations, an interview checklist and more.

[|CareerBuilder]
The popular (America) mainstream job hunting site offers numerous tips on all aspects of the application and interview process, tips on marketing yourself, how to promote your hidden job skills and more.

[|Careerlab]
Offers advice on what to do if you don’t get a job offer after multiple interviews, a cheat sheet to keep notes on your interview as well as what you wore so you don’t repeat an outfit, sample cover letters and more.

[|HotJobs]
Yahoo’s job search site offers numerous tips on how to prepare, how to present yourself, follow up on the interview, even how to handle an interview over a meal, and more.

[|InterviewBest]
Helps you come up with concise interview presentations that present your strong points and how you would benefit a company.

[|InterviewUp]
Is a mixture of a job board along with a community of people who share their interview experiences from different fields so that you can get a feel for what types of questions you may get when you go in, and what sort of answers work best.

[|Monster]
The well known job search site also offers quizzes you can use to see how ready you are for various aspects of your job hunt as well as a random job interview question generator.

[|My Future- Interviews]
=Resumes=

[|Razume]
It all starts with that perfect resume. Use Razume's resume builder or upload your own and have it reviewed