CAREERS
Career Preparation
Career Magazine
The magazine contains a resume bank and is designed to help students
explore careers and job skills.
Create A Sample Resume Lesson Plan for Home and Career Skills Students
Visit Kim Pierce's 8th grade assignment for creating a first time resume.
Free-ed.net
If you are looking to learn about a given topic but aren't looking necessarily shooting
for a degree, Free-ed.net offers an array of free online courses.
Future Scan
Future Scan isan interactive guide for teenagers which offers general
career advice and focused information about becoming an architect, attorney or veternarian,
Job Smart
This site includes sections like Getting Ready (resumes, salaries, and career guides),
getting a job, and getting help. The information for this site comes from California
and may not be useful to students in the Northeast.
Kaplan: The Career Center
Light in tone...geared toward students. Features information about standardized test
preparation courses, with links to over 300 colleges and universities, and related resources,
career counseling, classified ads, interview help, and help with writing resumes and
cover letters.
New York State Department of Labor
New York State Department of Labor
Division of Research & Statistics
State Office Campus
Building 12 Room 480
Albany NY 12240
Phone: (518) 457-1130
E-mail: rspubs@labor.state.ny.us
This site contains job and career resources, facts and figures on research and statistics,
doing business in NYS, and retaining the NYS workforce. Specific button for
Youth Careers-Job Clips and Occupational Guides for specific jobs in NYS, How to Acquire Job
Skills and Tools for Educators.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
This site includes nationaland international information about specific occupations
plus projected job outlook information.
Peterson's Education Center
This site brings together organized valuable information about educational opportunities
(including distance learning) at all levels (including K-12 and graduate school) through
its huge database.
TeleCampus
TeleCampus allows you to find thousands of courses that are being offered on line.
Windows to the Future
"Windows to the Future" is a powerful integration of English, social science and vocational education
which has universal applications. Built on goals for the year 2010.
Colleges
100 Hot Colleges
The top 100 college Web sites, ranked by number of hits, with links to each school.
CampusTours.com
This site offers free "virtual tours" of many schools across the United States. It also
offers interactive campus maps and college Webcam shots for a slice-of-life experience. To help
you figure out how to foot those tuition bills visit their "paying for college" section.
College Board Online
In addition to testing information, this site includes college information for students,
parents, teachers, and counselors.
College Edge
This site explores potential careers and majors, and advice from choosing a college to
packing and "settling in."
College Express
This site offers the latest information on America's best private colleges and universities.
College Net
This is a good source for admissions information on community and technical schools, colleges,
universities and graduate programs. It searches for colleges with a specific major, location,
size, intercollegiate sports and tuition cost. Applicants can complete, file and pay for
admissions entirely through the internet. It can also search for financial aid and scholarship
information.
College Opportunities On-Line
This site is a U.S. Department of Education site that lets you find colleges by degree,
program or location.
The College Admissions Game
High school students can use the information and tips offered at this site
to help them better prepare for getting into the college of their choice.
The College Guide
It provides a search service for selected colleges, admissionsand financing information, and
links to student homepages.
The Princeton Review
This site offers advice on colleges,careers and graduate school, with a yearly ranking of
colleges as determined by college students themselves.
U.S. News Online Colleges & Careers Center
U.S. News & World Report's yearly rankings of "America's Best Colleges," tips on getting
the most money for school, and information on studying abroad.
Virtual College Day
Look for up-to-date information about programs, faculty and facilities.
Collages: Food Service/Hospitality Industry
Pensylvannia Culinary
Cornell University Food Industry Management Distance Education Program
Culinary Institute of America
Job Searches
America's Job Bank
Career Mosaic
Contains online jobfairs, a career resource center and over 70,000 job openings.
Arthur's Job Bank
Career Path
Career Site
Cool Works
This site gives information on great seasonal work...like cruise jobs,
jobs in national parks and child care.
Head Hunter
HotJobs.com
iVillage.com
This site's Career Center offers a wide range of information and support for women in-or ready
to enter-the workforce.
Online Career Center
Student Center
Students just entering the workforce can stop here to explore jobs that suit their talents.
The Monster Board
This site features "Jobba the Hunt" your personal job search agent. It also contains
a resume builder, resume posting and career advice.
Yahoo Employment Classifieds
Search classified ads by state, metropolitian area and field.
Financial Aid
CASHE (College Aid Sources for Higher Education)
This free online scholarship service from Sallie Mae gives students exclusive
Internet access to a comprehensive database of financial aid resources for college.
College Board's Fund Finder (EXPAN)
The College Board's Fund Finder lists scholarships and other financial aid
programs from 3,400 national, state, public and private sources.
Fast Web
This site provides a free database search of over 400,000 scholarships
(180,000 are from private sources). Students can set up a mailbox to periodically
view new listings.
FinAid
This is a comprehensive and independent guide to student financial aid sources and services.
FreeScholarships.com
FreeScholarships.com awards a $10,000 scholarship to one of its site's registered users every
Monday through Friday; on Saturdays, onelucky user wins a $25,000 scholarship. The money can be
used to pay for all education-related costs, including tuition; the purchase of books, computers,
software; or repayment of student loans. There's no fee to register, and all students over the
age of 13 are eligible. The site also has a search engine for researching colleges.
e-help freescholarships.com
Nellie Mae
This is a national nonprofit student loan financing and services.
Project EASI
This site deals with financial aid.
U. S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education
This is a guide to federal grants, loans and workstudy programs.
Scholarship Sources: Food Service/Hospitality Industry
American Culinary Federation
Post Office Box 3466
St. Augustine, FL 32085-3466
Phone: (904) 824-4468
American Hotel & Motel Association
1201 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC20005-3917
Phone: (203) 289-3100
FCCLA
International Food Service Executives Association
1100 State Road
Suite 103
Margate, Florida 33068
The Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association
250 South WackerDrive
Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60606-5834
Phone: (312) 715-1010
Statler Foundation
107 Delaware Avenue
Suite 508
Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone: (716) 852-1104
School to Work
School-to-Careers
School-to-Careers (Work) was designed to facilitate the distribution of
School-to-Careers (Work) information to educators, students and businesses.
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