Majors:
MSUM's List of Degrees/Majors
From the website Quintessential Careers:
Choosing a College Major: How to Chart Your Ideal Path by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Career Directions Inventory at LiveCareer.com -- identifies your career interests (highest and lowest) and then tells you what jobs match your results in your highest scored categories. Also includes workplace fit preferences using seven approaches to work (and based on Holland Scale). Results are presented in text and graphic form. No cost to job-seekers for basic report.
CareerPlanner.com -- provides online career testing, as well as free career and job-search information, to help job-seekers discover your true purpose in life and their ideal career. A good source for high school students to career changers. Uses RIASEC method of matching your interests and skills with potential careers.Some elements free; others fee-based.
BrainTrack
Career Resources--BrainTrack's Career Guide helps visitors
evaluate career options and find schools.
The guide offers data on hundreds of careers that typically require higher
education for entry or advancement and features links to thousands of schools.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter. Fill in a questionnaire of about 70 questions, which is automatically scored on the Web. Your results will be in the form of Myers-Briggs Types, and suggestions of appropriate careers are made. Free.
MAPP (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential) Assessment. Fill in a questionnaire that has 71 triads of three statements. Assessment is designed to guide, motivate, and empower people to achieve your greatest educational and career potential. Provides "teaser" results sent via e-mail; more details and guidance available for a fee. Free.
Work Preference Inventory. Based on the premise that the process of values clarification is very important in career planning, the Work Preference Inventory gives you a small glimpse that helps you to clarify what you value in terms of work style to assist you in making more fulfilling and rewarding career and employment decisions. For best results, use Java-script-enabled browser.
Online Career Assessment Tools Review: Read our reviews of the major online career assessment tools for job-seekers. If you are looking for some career direction, or perhaps just want to learn more about yourself and your personality, then taking one or more of these assessment tests can give you a better idea of your attitudes and interests as they relate to discovering more about yourself -- and possible career choices.
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition
Ways to use the
Occupational Outlook
Handbook site:
(1) To find out about a
specific occupation or topic, use the
Search box
on every page—enter your term in the box.
(2) To find out about occupations, browse listings using
the Occupations links on the right side of each page.
(3) For a listing of all occupations in alphabetical
order, go to the
A-Z Index and select a letter.
The
Princeton Review
-REGISTER
---You will take the quick 5-minute quiz of 24 questions.
-----Enter your mnstate email address.
-----Choose and enter a password you will remember.
-----After you get your results, PRINT them out. You will
also need to choose at least 2 of the career suggestions that
appear after you take the test and print that information out.
-----Make sure you KEEP all of this information. You will
be using it for Journal #3.
From the University of Minnesota Morris' Academic Advising website:
A Major Decision
Workbook
The first time many students’ think about the career development process is when they are faced with selecting or changing their major. Some students choose to immediately seek assistance in this process whereas others prefer to initially explore the possibilities on their own.
From Penn State's web page Major Decisions for students who are exploring majors:
Some Common Misperceptions about Choosing a Major. Students often begin their exploration of majors with preconceived ideas about the best ways to go about choosing a major and about what impact that choice will have. Unfortunately, many of these ideas are misperceptions that can deter real progress.
From the University of Missouri's Career Center