48 Career Idea Resources To Help You on Your Career Path

A step-by-step examination for some of the basics of existence.

A free download of a workbook that will help you to answer some questions about your passions in life.

For those who may want to know if they’re more suited for a corporate or start-up life.

A comprehensive “interest profiler” that will help you narrow down what you enjoy in life - and at work. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Employment and Training Administration.

From the U.S. Department of Labor - a skills profiler, encompassing both “soft” and “technical” skills to help prospective workers figure out the best fit.

MindTools provides a wide array of employee tests and quizzes to help workers narrow down what they’re best at.

A quick - and actually kind of a fun - test that helps you pick out some of the job skills you’re proficient at.

Looking for a site that will help you find out what career is right for you? Well, a website called “What Career Is Right For Me” will certainly help you out; the site has a long quiz to help determine skills and interests.

An excellent interactive aptitude test from Rasmussen College. This one is slider-based, with a filter built in to allow you to integrate factors like job growth, salary and education.

Just coming out of school? For students, here are some resources to help you develop a very successful career.

Want to try to map out your career plan? Try sketching it out before you make a new move with this sample from Mapping Your Future (it’s filled in with a different job, but you can easily make it your own).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) also advocates making a career plan, and provides several actionable steps for those starting out or starting over.

The Harvard Business review knows a little bit about business. Here’s a list of fascinating articles on career planning to help you gain a little more insight into your next step.

How about some career planning advice from a CEO? This Business Insider piece speaks to a former Google executive, who gives three valuable tips on determining the course of your employment.

What jobs are high in demand? Where are you working now? Where are you going to work? We have created a unique set of insights into companies and career paths based on data from 12 Million employees.

The “Society for Grownups” has some very mature suggestions for helping to keep your career on track. For grown-ups only, obviously.

The “Institute of Career Transitions,” not surprisingly, has a wealth of resources for anyone who is going through this type of change. A vast amount of materials to poke around with here.

Worried about how you’re going to explain your career transition to a prospective employer? The Harvard Business Review has some excellent tips.

if you've been recently laid off, or transitioning into a new organization, discover what your next steps are including common severance packages and how to negotiate them.

Got a LinkedIn? If you don’t, you should have one, and once you get one, you’ll need to describe your work experience; this website provides some very valuable tips for fleshing that area out.

The National Career Fairs website offers an expansive listing of job fairs that are put on throughout the United States. Wherever you are in the country, there’s a good chance there will be a fair close to you.

Another excellent database of job fairs throughout the United States. Bookmark these pages and check in frequently for updates.

A compendium of job fairs and hiring events from BestHire, arranged by location. The site also has career advice and a job search feature.