Career Tools for Youths
Career Key Test
The Career Key is an online test that measures your skills, abilities, values and interests – the personality types most often used by career counselors. The results can help you make decisions about your career or education and help you find out about jobs that fit your personality.
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Career Prospects in Virginia
This free online resource will help you investigate careers, keep up with career trends, find educational resources, and find a job.Click here to learn more about Career Prospects
Want a better understanding of the world of work? Career Prospects exists to help you get a handle on what's happening out there.
What does an operations research analyst do? How much do perfusionists make? What kind of training do you need to become a pyrotechnician? Career Prospects offers a database of information on more than 400 careers that are important in Virginia.
You can find two kinds of information about each career:
- a printable written summary that includes education requirements, skills, earnings and job outlook
- statistical tables showing employment projections, numbers of graduates, earnings, percentage of male and female employment, and other facts.
In addition, Career Prospects offers numerous articles on getting an education, looking for and finding a job, various career trends, as well as links to career advice, self-tests, salary surveys and internships. While Career Prospects does not have job ads or lists of jobs available in Virginia, we do offer Links to websites that have this information. Career Prospects is part of the Virginia Career Resource Network, the online career information resource of the Virginia Department of Education, Office of Career and Technical Education Services