Help Teens Assess Work Styles, Interests and Work Options
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These websites offer ways to assess a teen’s work style, value or interests as they look ahead to employment. One or more may resonate for your CASA teen or help start the conversation.
Assess interests and explore different types of jobs:
https://www.truity.com/test/photo-career-quiz
https://careertech.org/resource/career-clusters-student-interest-surve
https://www.careeronestop.org/ExploreCareers/explore-careers.aspx
Find your work style (Personal characteristics that can affect how well someone performs a job):
Find your work values (Global aspects of work that are important to a person’s satisfaction):
Sites to use for matching skills to careers that use them:
https://www.careeronestop.org/Toolkit/Skills/skills-matcher.aspx
http://www.gettinghired.com
https://www.mycareeradvisor.com
https://www.onetonline.org/skills/
How do you get exposure to work? Job shadowing can be in person or virtual and these sites can assist the conversation:
https://www.usa.gov/government-job-videos has videos about different career fields
http://www.youthhood.org/jobcenter/index.asp is a career exploration site that is youth friendly. Foster-Parents or guardians, teachers may use it to support their youth
These websites were offered by Betty Schoen, bschoen@azdes.gov, 602-463-9002 Feel free to contact her for additional information or support.