Career Exploration Resources

Explore career possibilities with College Board. Students can explore potential careers based on their interests, skills, and local labor market information. Students can take a career quiz and skills assessment as well as have access to career insights and a career directory.

bIG FUTURE: EXPLORE CAREERS

The California Career Center (CalCC) is your career planning website with tools to help you map your future, whether looking ahead to college, apprenticeship, the military or other options.  CalCC is focused on resources for students but also contains resources for counselors, parents, teachers.

CALIFORNIA CAREER CENTER

California Career Zone helps you find the best career options for you by matching your unique interests, knowledge, and skills with occupations you'd probably like. Explore, plan and organize with a free account. 

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Students can use their free, CaliforniaColleges.edu accounts to access career exploration resources. Resources include personalized career inventories (interest profiler, work values), career searches and more.

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Discover majors, in-demand careers and education based on your interests through this tool from Las Positas College. You can even create a resume with the resume tool.

CAREER COACH

Career videos are organized into 16 clusters, or related types of work. Select a category to view a list of videos related to that cluster. Videos include career details such as tasks, work settings, education needed, and more.

CAREER ONE STOP CAREER VIDEOS

An interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. The site has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's interests and level of work experience. 

MY NEXT MOVE

The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is a free online database that contains hundreds of job definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses and workforce development professionals to understand today's world of work in the United States.

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The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a career resource from the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that provides information on hundreds of occupations in the country. 

oCCUPATIONAL oUTLOOK

PrinciplesYou is a personality assessment that provides you with Archetypes you’re most like, an in-depth report that shows how you prefer to think, engage, and apply yourself and tailored insights on how your results apply to real-life situations, so you can see your tendencies in action and get the right guidance to help you achieve your goals. 

PRINCIPLES YOU

ABC NorCal, or Associated Builders and Contractors Northern California, is a non-profit trade association that serves commercial builders and contractors in Northern California.

ABC NORCAL

Alameda County JATC for the Electrical (Inside Wireman) Trade apprenticeship program is a five-year program that combines classroom learning with on-the-job training.

alameda county electrical jatc

Learn about different manufacturing programs at California community colleges.

Manufacturing programs

Build California is a program of the AGC Construction Education Foundation is a non-profit corporation that is dedicated to inspiring, developing, and equipping California’s current and future construction workforce.

BUILD CALIFORNIA

Learn about apprenticeship programs within California.

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The Carpenters Training Committee for Northern California (CTCNC) is the educational organization that provides Apprentice, Journey-level, and related training services for Union Carpenters and Union Contractors across the 46 Northern California Counties.

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DC 16 are Painters, Drywall Finishers, Glaziers, Floor Coverers and Specialty Craft Workers.

DC 16 IUPAT

Career and Technical Education programs offered at Las Positas College.

CTE at LPC

MILITARY VISIT SCHEDULE/ RECRUITER CONTACTS

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REP SWALWELL NOMINATIONS

ROTC PROGRAM

Reserve Officers' Training corps (ROTC) is a leadership training and development program that prepares full-time, college-enrolled students for service opportunities in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Space Force (the Coast Guard offers a similar program called the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative [CSPI]). Joining ROTC opens a door to professional skills development, scholarship opportunities and tuition assistance, and, upon completion, attaining the rank of officer. Today, ROTC is offered at more than 1,700 colleges and universities.

The California Highway Patrol's Explorer Program is designed for young men and women, 15 to 20 years of age, allowing them to develop the skills and knowledge needed to serve the people of California through discipline and a commitment to serving their community. Explorers assist the CHP both in office and out in the field. The experience they obtain here will be directly applicable to a future in law enforcement, while building relationships - with other Explorers, in the community they serve, and within the CHP. Explorers receive physical fitness training, medical training, organizational, and clerical training. As an Explorer, you'll attend Community Service events, staff DUI Checkpoints, participate in a ride along in the field, and compete in Explorer Competitions. 'Explore' your future in Law Enforcement as a CHP Explorer.

CHP EXPLORER PROGRAM

The Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Explorers Post #933 was established in 1999.  This program is dedicated towards training tomorrow’s firefighters in conjunction with the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department (LPFD) and the Boy Scouts of America. The Explorer Post and the LPFD provide an excellent start to a career as a Firefighter.

LIVERMORE-PLEASANTON FIRE EXPLORERS

Law Enforcement Exploring is open to young individuals ages 14 (and completed the 8th grade) through 21 years old with an interest in learning more about careers in the field of Law Enforcement.

The Explorer Program provides educational training opportunities for young adults to help them gain insight on the purpose, mission and objectives of law enforcement and offers hands-on career orientation experiences, leadership opportunities, and community service activities. The primary goals of the program are to help young adults choose a career path within law enforcement and to challenge them to become responsible citizens in their communities.

Applicants for the Explorer Program Must Meet the Following Criteria:

• Be interested in a career in Law Enforcement
• Be at least 14 to 21 years of age, however, applications must be received by the applicant's 19th birthday
• Be of good moral character and have no felony convictions
• Must be attending school and maintaining at least a 2.0 GPA
• Applicant must be free from any physical or mental disabilities that may place themselves or a fellow Explorer or police employee in danger during an assignment or detail.

LIVERMORE POLICE EXPLORER PROGRAM

 California Board of Registered Nursing website to learn about careers in nursing, steps to becoming a nurse, reputable resources for future nurses and more.  

CAREERS IN NURSING

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MANUFACTURING JOBS NEWSLETTER

California faces a shortage of special education, mathematics, and science teachers. The TEACH California Website is designed to explain the teacher preparation process, assist prospective teachers in creating their plan to become credentialed teachers, provide relevant content, and offer links to important resources.

TEACH CALIFORNIA