Career Choices
Choosing a career path can be overwhelming for a young adult. Below are links to programs which will help your child identify career choices.
Find jobs that are right for your teen with America's CareerInfoNet online career assessment tools
Career Exploration
The Career Exploration tool is a five-step process of choosing education, training, and jobs that match your interests. At each step you will find guidance and links to more resources.
Skills Profiler
The Skills Profiler will identify the skills considered important for occupations of interest. Or, you can identify skills and then evaluate career options. The skills included range from basic skills, such as active listening, to social skills to technical skills.
Occupation Profiles
With this tool you can customize a profile by selecting a job type, which will then give you its national wage ranges, employment trends, required skills and abilities, and needed education and training levels. You can also identify related occupations.
Identify current trends in Ohio for specific occupations
America's CareerInfoNet: Fastest-Growing Occupations in Ohio
The 50 fastest-growing occupations projected to 2012 are listed here. By clicking on one of the occupations, you can learn more about the work, view a video clip, and compare annual Ohio job openings in the occupation to nationwide trends.
America's CareerInfoNet: Occupations with the Most Openings
Use the educational level required to see which Ohio jobs have the most openings as well as identifying the education required for these jobs.
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services: Ohio Short-Term Employment Forecast
Short-term forecasts project employment trends for two years. Manufacturing, construction, service, and other major industries are included in these forecasts.
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services: 2012 and 2014 Ohio Job Outlook
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services projects employment for the state as a whole, for regions, and for the eight largest metropolitan areas.