It starts by looking inside to figure out what really makes you happy, and then looking outside to find opportunities that exist in your field of interest. Based on answers to questions about your interests, abilities and values, Career Key will list groups of jobs likely to fit you. Individual job listings are linked to entries in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook . As with all assessment tests, Career Key is best used as a tool to help you begin your career explorations, and not viewed as a mandate. Effective career development techniques, such as volunteering and shadowing, are introduced.
Many people work in fields unrelated to their college majors.
Questions such as this, designed to jumpstart your career thinking, can be printed out and answered. Your mission is to find the fierce dragon who has oppressed the villagers of Usurper for the past 200 years, and put an end to the dragon's evil reign. Before you start your mission, roam the village and meet the townsfolk to acquaint yourself with their work. Some of them can help you fight the dragon. The following links are either new discoveries or sites that didn't make it into my newspaper column because of space constraints.