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These links take you to
surveys and questionnaires about careers. You can assess your interests and
preferences to learn about your personality style, working style, and what
careers would be best for you.
Occupational Outlook Handbook and Job Bank:
Profile Various Careers and Look for real jobs
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 Americas
Job Bank - Serious Networking
Visit our site and see how we can help you find the job
that's right for you. Thousands of new jobs are posted daily by employers
searching for someone like you.
Occupational
Outlook Handbook, from the U.S. Government
Hundreds of career profiles showing job description, wages,
working conditions, education, related occupations, job openings, and more.
Quick Career Surveys
Discover
Careers that Fit You (from Indiana Career and Postsecondary Advancement Center)
A quick and easy way to start finding occupations to explore.
A good starting point to narrow your career choices.
The
Ed Doctors 2000 Career Map (from the Computer Science Department, College of
Engineering at Texas Tech University)
This innovative program will return a map coordinate and plot
the individual's location on a career map. The program also orders 18 careers
from best to worst fit for the individual.
Occupational
Interest Survey (from Los Rios Community College)
Another quick tool to assess your career interests.
http://www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.cgi
In-depth Career Surveys
Career
Interest Survey (from Educational On-line)
A more detailed survey to determine what type of person you
are. Also suggests possible careers.
Pathway
Survey Questionnaire (from the University of Idaho)
A more in-depth tool to help you decide career pathways.
The
Career Key (from North Carolina State University)
A fun, well-designed career assessment tool. Click "Sign in
to begin," fill out the short form about yourself, then select "Take the Career
Key measure."
Personality and Interest Surveys
MAPP
- Reveals your motivations for work
Click the "Join Now" link to take an insightful test. MAPP
reveals your interests, temperament, reasoning, aptitudes, how you relate to
people and things, and much more.
The
Enneagram
A famous and popular personality assessment. Tells you which
of nine different personality types you fit into, and what type of work best
fits your personality.
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Use the links below to find an apartment in the area
you want to live. |
Homestore.com
Enter your zip code, or click "By City & State" or "by
Address"
Apartments.com
Click on your state. Click your area. Click your city. Follow
the instructions to find an apartment.
Rentals.com
On this site, find the green box. Type your city, select your
state, and go!
Stuck?
Search Metacrawler Yellow Pages
Use the "Quick Search" just under the "Yellow Pages" title to
find an apartment in your area. Fill in all the fields. When you get the phone
number, you can call or visit the apartment to get the information you need.
Additional Helpful and Interesting
Web Sites
The
following links offer more helpful information.
BestPlaces.net
Lots of information on where to live in the U.S. and what
different cities offer.
KMart
Another store with clothes, furniture, appliances, and much
more.
Walmart
You can find almost anything here.
Target
Mainstream department store for clothes, home furnishings,
and such.
Bed,
Bath, and Beyond
Lots of great stuff for the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and
the whole house.
Furniture
Find
Cool web-based furniture shopping site.
Best
Buy
Shop for appliances and all things electronic.
Circuit
City
Electronics, appliances, and toys of all kinds.
Average
U.S. Food Costs, from USDA
This page requires the Acrobat reader. If the page doesn't
load, use one of these values
Single female, thrifty, eat at home: $7.00 per day
Single female, eat out sometimes: $15.00 per day
Single female, eat out often: $22.00 per day
Single male, thrifty, eat at home: $8.00 per day
Single male, eat out sometimes: $17.00 per day
Single male, eat out often: $25.00 per day
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This is where you'll find the current interest rate or
APR on your car loan. |
Bankrate.com
Look in the table labeled “Check latest rates” and choose
your state.
Yahoo!
Auto loan rates
Look for the table called "National Auto Loan Rates".
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Click these links to use some handy loan calculators.
Enter the price of your car, the APR, and how many months you'll make
payments.
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US
Bank payment calculator
Enter "Loan Amount", the price of your car
Enter APR
Select new/used and year
Select "Term" (number of months to pay it back)
Click Enter
1st
Bank calculator
Enter Number of Years, Interest Rate (APR), Purchase Price,
click "Compute"
Retirement
calculator
In the retirement calculator, enter the values as follows:
"How much total money do you want to save?" -- Enter 1000000
(don’t use commas)
"How much have you saved already?" -- Enter 250
What rate of return can your money earn? -- Enter 7
When do you want to reach your savings goal? -- Enter number
of years until you reach 65.
(For example, if you’re 17 now, enter 48.)
Savings
Calculator
How to use the calculator:
In Initial Amount, enter your initial deposit of $100
In Monthly Deposit, enter $50
In Annual Interest, enter 4.0 (Leave the Compounded set at
Monthly)
In Number of Years, enter 2
Calculate the real costs of credit cards
This link takes you to a credit card calculator. Enter the
values as follows:
Current Account Balance: 6500
Annual Interest Rate: 16
Minimum Payment Percentage: 2
Minimum Payment Amount: 130
Occupational
Outlook Handbook
Take some time and explore this web site. It has great info
on jobs and careers.
Americas
Job Bank - Serious Networking
Visit our site and see how we can help you find the job
that's right for you. Thousands of new jobs are posted daily by employers
searching for someone like you.
Trade
Schools & Technical Vocational Schools
There are many technical schools & trade schools out there --
we list only the best.
Trade
School.org
Trade School.org is a resource for students and professionals
looking for a career-oriented education.
Colleges.com
Look for the gold box labeled "Find a College or University".
Then read the instructions on each page carefully as you go through the college
search process.
US
News Community College Search
At this site, you can "Find a school by name" or use a
profiling tool. The profiler is a great college search tool -- but read the
instructions carefully!
US
News Four-Year College Search
At this site, you can "Find a school by name" or use a
profiling tool. The profiler is a great college search tool -- but read the
instructions carefully!
US
News College Comparison Work Sheet
Enter four colleges that interest you and get a detailed
comparison.
Find
college costs at US News College Comparison Work Sheet
Enter only 1 or up to 4 schools that interest you. In the
results, look for the section titled "cost" for tuition and room and board.
http://www.careertools.org/finaidadvisor/
This website
helps you fund your career pathway. Answer a brief list of questions to see what
you might qualify for, where to go for more complete information on eligibility,
and how to apply.
To answer some of the questions within the Financial Aid Advisor, it will be
helpful to have the following information available:
A copy of your
most recently submitted Federal Income Tax return;
Social
Security and welfare benefits, nontaxable interest, etc. received during the
previous year; and
Bank,
real estate, business, and farm financial statements to determine your assets
and debts.
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