COUNSELING SERVICES DIVISION

Useful Links

Career Research and Services

• Saddleback College Career/Placement Center
• Job Hunter's Bible - Richard Bolles, author of What Color is your Parachute has a web site with many resources.
• Books For Career Planing
• Career City  -contains info. on jobs in technical fields and other career resources.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook- Descriptions, Employment outlooks, etc. - a comprehensive reference source on careers.
• The Career Key  - a quickie assessment using the Holland Types (on-line and free)
• Career Style Summary - 24 questions are used to determine your interests and work style
• College Board Career Search -Take a questionnaire to help understand what kind of career might suit you - explore 237 popular careers.
• Career Choices: from Search JobWeb Resources, Catapul
• Monster.com: -contains a variety of different and changing surveys related to career exploration and development.
• University of Waterloo Career Development Manual This site offers a collection of self-reflective tools to assess interests, values, skills, and personality preferences.
• Jobs.net Use this site for you job search
• Self-Directed Search This site will help explain the Holland code in greater detail as well as let user take the SDS for a cost.

Majors

• What Can I Do With a Major In...? -A useful site maintained by the University of North Carolina.

Medical,Dental, Law, etc.

• Kaplan Educational Site
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• Medical Schools US and Canada

College Success

• National Resource Center - series of web pages providing useful information for new students - developed by the University of South Carolina

College/University

• Index to U.S. Community Colleges, and Universities
• General Undergraduate Rankings - University of Illinois site that offers many links that rate college/universities

Saddleback College

• Admissions & Records
• Matriculation
• Transfer Center
• Articulation Office
• DSPS Special Services
• EOPS Extended Opportunity Programs and Services
• Class Schedules
• Catalog Information
• Career/Placement Center
• Financial Aid
• CalWorks Program
• Saddleback College Student MySite

Scholarship Search

• FastWeb -A great free resource for trying to find scholarships.

Other

• High School & College Codes
• High School A-F courses (for UC admissions credit)