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CLP's Career-Related Web Resources for Fullerton College Students Only:

The FC Career Planning System is a lifetime career e-portfolio system to provide you with what you need when it comes to securing a satisfying career and achieving success in our workforce that requires the right choices, tools, and information. Click onto Tutorial for audio/visual instructions on how to register. Click onto Webinar to view how to explore occupations in the system. This FREE program for FC Students is an online comprehensive, research-based approach to career exploration, planning, and development.

CA Career Cafe is where students meet success! This resourceful career-related website is developed for all college students by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. Check out the Hot Tips and Cool Connections with Professional Associations. From "Get Started" to "Get Hired," there's something for everyone! Be sure to check out the site map to get a visual of all that the site has to offer!

The Career & Life Planning Process helps you understand all that goes into career development. The Career & Life Planning Process assists you with identifying what you're good at; how your skills, values and interests translate into work; and where to find that work.

Career Counseling is a very important part of the career development process. From goal setting to decision making, our career counselors can provide you with consultation and support.

The CLP Center hosts Career Workshops on a regular basis designed for either the undecided or decided student usually for a duration of one hour.

By completing this Career Center Assignment, you will identify a career based on your assessment results from the Fullerton College Career Planning System and begin to learn how to research that career. This activity will help you focus on information such as your preferred work activities and work environments, preparation such as training and education, employment outlook, salary, and work values relating to a career. After your research, you will pull together your findings to synthesize the information.

The CLP Center also has the California Career Information System Eureka which offers a comprehensive database for the career explorer, including personality and skills assessments. You must follow the Instructions (pdf) before logging onto the site.

Find updated career and occupational information and selected articles in the Career Spotlight Newsletter published by the Career & Life Planning Center bi-annually.

The Vocational Biographies system is a comprehensive online career library offering "real-life" career stories and an endless stream of ideas for readers seeking career direction. You must follow the Instructions (pdf) before logging onto the site. It is also offered in print copies in the CLP Center.

Keeping labor market trends in mind as you consider your career development will give you perspective and help you make realistic decisions about your future. Click onto Labor Market Realities.

Chronicle Occupational Briefs present information on more than 2,000 occupational titles, including 650 comprehensive occupational descriptions, ranging from those that require a high school diploma or less, through professional careers.

BOOKS, BOOKS, and more BOOKS! The Career and Life Planning Center offers an extensive Career Library with updated career books, journals, magazines, newspapers. If you are undecided, need specific information about an occupation, or want more career-related information from Accounting to Zoology, you will find a book that is just for you!

In addition to our CLP Center Career Library, Fullerton College's Library offers the new FC NetLibrary to view a variety of full text career books and others available online. You can view the entire book right where you are sitting!

Interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM)? Find out more about Fullerton College's Project GPS². This program was developed specifically to increase awareness of exciting STEM career opportunities. To ensure that FC's STEM students receive all the support necessary to reach their goals, mentoring, tutoring, and scholarship programs are available.

Additional Career-Related Web Resources:

Occupational Information:

America's Career One Stop

California Career Zone

California LMI Career Information

California Employment Development Department (LMI)

California Occupational Guides

Career Mapping Tool (in Beta test) by Monster

JobWeb

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Career Guide to Industries

O*Net (DOT)