College/ Career Search
Check out these videos from GPISD Advanced Academics to help you begin to plan! Use the tools below to help you make some important decisions about your life. Career Search Select a link to help guide you to possible majors and career fields. If you don't like one link go to the next! Occupational Outlook Handbook See every possible job you could ever have! Search by field, salary, growth potential, and other factors. This website is a fantastic, solid resource for helping you choose a career. It is a perfect starting point for preparing for your future. Texas Career Check This website has an interest profile quiz, tons of information about a variety of careers, research about trends in career branches, and an easy to use format. Highly recommend. Dr. Kit's Career Exploration Site Watch videos of people in a variety of careers as they explain their typical day. Many career resources to help you decide on your path. Texas Genuine Take a quiz to help you find a career, then research the different paths you can take. BONUS: It has a feature that shows you which colleges offer programs for the career path you want! Launch My Career Texas Learn your lifetime earning potential, explore careers within your chosen endorsement, click on your dream career and learn what majors can lead you there, learn what schools offer that major, explore handy charts to compare your choice of school, career, and income to others and so much more! Road Trip Nation Career assessment tests and planning can seem boring, but not with this resource! Their interactive and SHORT career assessment test directs you to video interviews of people at the top of their game in all different careers. Learn what it is really like to run a hotel, animate for feature films and video games, or travel for a living. Texas Reality Check This site allows you to see the future you want for yourself. You choose the style of home, car, wardrobe, and social life you hope to have. Then it provides you with a list of careers that can give you the life you want, with information on each career. College Search Big Future College Search You’re probably looking to make sure your college of choice offers your major. Maybe after making a lower SAT or ACT score than you hoped, you’re just worried where you can get in! Perhaps location is your number one priority, or keeping costs low. Or maybe you care more about whether your school has a great football team? College Vine You can enter your GPA, test scores, and resume, and College Vine will create a "chancing profile" that tells you how likely you are to be accepted at all of the colleges on your college list! Need to add more reach, target, or safety school? You can browse the list it provides. Want to know what you need to do to be a better candidate for your colleges? It shows that, too. Plus they have workshops and all kinds of stuff. CREATE THIS ACCOUNT. You won't regret it! College Simply You can enter your GPA and test scores, along with other information about what you want in a college, and College Simply will make your college list! It even has a way to sort by Reach, Target, and Safety schools! And it has tons of information about each college. Highly recommend! The College Scorecard A resource provided by the US Department of Education in order to directly compare colleges and universities based on three important criteria: average cost, graduation rate, and salary after attending. Input information about what you’re looking for in a college in order to directly compare options available to you, ranked by highest score. College Navigator Choose colleges by using their tools to help you compare actual price (based on your family's income), requirements, programs, and much more. Fantastic resource! Own your Own Future Start owning your own future by exploring resources that will help you on your path to college. The whole site is organized by grade to make sure you get the exact info you need. So that's where we begin... College for all Texans This page provides an enormous amount of important information on how to pay for college and for each of the individual steps. Edmit.Me A new resource for comparing colleges and finding out about costs, scholarships, and your chances of getting in. Texas Genuine Take a quiz to help you find a career, then research the different paths you can take. BONUS: It has a feature that shows you which colleges offer programs for the career path you want! Click the link below for a Guide to the admissions process--has everything you need to prepare!
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