Career Development Resources

A great resource to help work through an individual's specific difficulties in making a career choice. Click the logo to start the questionnaire.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, CareerOneStop is: 1) Your source for employment information and inspiration, 2) The place to manage your career, 3) Your pathway to career success, 4) Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses and career professionals.

Explore the comprehensive job search management system, provided by Career Services (access code: wvsenior) to find additional career opportunities.

You can learn about yourself in many different ways. Create an account and explore how who you are matches with careers by using one or all of the career assessments listed below.

See which jobs match your interests and skills.

FOCUS2 is a career assessment to help you explore majors and career paths, and determine which career directions might prove rewarding for you. Create an account using access code: mountaineer.

Handshake is an interactive network that connects students with over 750,000 employers. Within the Handshake portal, students can find the right jobs, have one-on-one conversations with employers, and get hired.

Hire Autism is a free program led and run by the Organization for Autism Research (OAR). With an active jobs board and by offering resources for employers and job seekers alike, Hire Autism aims to expand opportunities for autistic individuals and serve as a continuing resource for them in their workplaces.

A detailed article from Indeed that gives tips for identifying keywords and using them in your resume.

MoneyGeek makes personal finance more approachable and accessible - so anyone can be a "geek" when it comes to personal finances.

O*NET OnLine provides broad access to the O*NET database of occupational information. This database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations which can be used to facilitate career exploration.

Are you ready to make some big career moves? Using visual thinking techniques, this workbook will help you discover your strengths, develop your vision, design a path forward, and deliver your talent.

Time4Coffee (T4C) is a unique virtual library of carefully curated career conversations available 7-days a week, 24/7 with hundreds of professionals – in dozens of different careers — who’ve been skillfully interviewed by former award-winning CNN journalist, Andrea Koppel.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making.

Whether you’re exploring majors or searching for information about your chosen field, this website will help. Learn typical career areas and types of employers that hire in these fields, as well as strategies to make you a more marketable candidate.