Ansel-Casey Life
Skills Assessment, now available on-line, free.
http://www.casey.org/aclsa/
Canadian Disability
Sites
...parents to access information, special educaton resources and to...
...affiliations, articles of interest, news, career opportunities and online...
http://www.esmerel.org/canada/canada2.htm
Child
Study/ Education/ Special Education - Saint Joseph College Home
...in child study/education/special educaton from Saint Joseph... ...Social
Work Child Study/Education/Special Education, Bachelor of Science...
http://www.sjc.edu/undergraduate/womens/Academic/child_study.asp
Diversity
Links
...Have Fun at an IEP meeting Special educaton Guide CLassplus... ...workplace,
and parent ADD children. Special Education Parents, educators...
http://www.ed.wright.edu/diversity/excepdiversi.htm
Family
Resources and Support
...organizations, school districts, special educaton programs, and...
...include parenting, health, finance, career, entertainment, and more.
CTW:...
http://www.clickandsearch.com/links/family/resources.shtml
Federal Resources for
Educational Excellence - Vocational Education
http://www.ed.gov/free/s-voced.html
O'NET Online
Using O*NET OnLine, the new DOT, a Web-based application that provides
user-friendly access to O*NET occupational information, you can: 1) find
occupations to explore; 2) search for occupations that use your skills;
3) look at related occupations; 4) view occupational snapshots, including
the most important characteristics of the worker and requirements of the
jobs, 5) view details of occupations, such as skills, knowledges, interests,
and activities; 6) use crosswalks to find corresponding occupations in
other classification systems; and connect to other on-line career information
resources.
http://www.onetcenter.org/
Reference Guide for College
Students with Disabilities
...of Education, Office of Special Educaton and Rehabilitative... ...(Postsecondary
Accommodations for Academic and Career Success), a...
http://www.ncsu.edu/equal_op/ada/
Special
Needs Materials for Academic, Employment Readiness, and LifeSkills Instructions.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/bempub/page1002.html
The BIG PAGES
of Special Education Links
http://www.mts.net/~jgreenco/special.html
USOPM - Professional Career openings http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/a1.htm
What Color Is Your Parachute?
- the job hunter's bible. Site is
supplement for job hunting online.
For Further Help: Career Counseling Offices
If the other tests, manuals and articles don't give you what you want
in the way of career counseling, your life preserver could be the Career
Offices on the Internet. There are two kinds:
College or University Career Offices, that have online presence's –
often with useful job-hunting advice, and other materials; and
Non-profit or commercial Career Offices that are online.
College or University Career Offices Online
A number of sites list such offices, but I think the best lists are to be found at:
CareerMosaic Campus Directory
http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/cc/cc8.html
It not only has a comprehensive list of American University and College
Career Centers on the Web, but it also links to Canadian centers, and Worldwide
centers – plus, other people's lists, such as Peterson's. Very impressive.
RPI Career Resource
http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/cc/cc8.html
This site, maintained by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has a good
list of career counseling sites, at least for the U.S.
Nonprofit or Commercial Career Offices Online
Many of the famous commercial job-listing sites on the Internet – such as CareerMosaic – function essentially as Online Career Counseling Offices, with other services besides job listings or resume postings. Go browse them to see. My Parachute Picks from among nonprofit or commercial sites:
JobStar
http://jobstar.org/
Developed by job expert Mary Ellen Mort, this is a great career counseling
site, to my mind, one of the top three job-related sites on the Web. While
the focus of this site is California, it has many articles that apply to
all job hunters: A list of (and links to) online career guides, a truly
great section on resumes, descriptions of the hidden job market, a place
to write with your career counseling questions ("Ask Electra"), news of
California job fairs and job hotlines, not to mention the best collection
of salary surveys that exists on the Internet.
About Work
http://www.aboutwork.com/
This is a career counseling center that is just one part of a much
larger network: www.iVillage.com: The Women's Network, which its three
founders created in order to build community. Of course it's designed for
women, but 96 percent of all career advice is gender-independent anyway.
Click on "Career" on their home page, and Voila! you have access to Tools
(e.g., "Assess Yourself"), Features (e.g., "Networking Center"), and Resources
(e.g., "Job Listings"). They also will e-mail you their Career Newsletter.
And they have a student center. To really use this site, you have to sign
up first as a member, but it's free.
If you want a live chat, in real time, you can go to "Chat Central"
and choose Career: Casual Chat, or Work from Home: Casual Chat. (They even
instruct you in how to talk to/type to the other people who are online
at the same time as you.)
If you'd prefer a message board, where you can just leave a well-composed inquiry and have other people take a crack at answering it, there are a whole bunch of Career message boards that are (mercifully) grouped by job-hunting topic. Alternatively, if you'd prefer that 'an expert' answer your questions, they have a section called "ask the experts," (there are five of them) with their own message boards where you can post your query and hope they answer it; they also have a weekly column, that each of them posts here. The last time I visited, one of the experts (Hope Dlugozima) was giving advice on how to get the attention of headhunters that was extremely sound and well-informed. Unusual to find on the Web!
The Career Action Center
http://www.careeraction.org/
This Center, located at 10420 Bubb Road in Cupertino, Calif., (in case
you're in the vicinity), is one of the most famous career counseling places
in the U.S. (They invented and trademarked the phrase Career Resiliencetm)
and they have a great array of job-hunting tips for those who are members
– you can join online. But even non-members have access to a variety of
career counseling articles on this site, including the wise "Gelatt's Guidelines
to the Future" by career expert H.B. Gelatt – who will enter into conversation
with you about these ideas, via e-mail from this site.
Forty+Plus
http://www.fp.org/chapters.htm
Here we go 'offline.' If you are over forty years of age, are 'a professional'
and want to find a career counseling support group in your geographical
area, this is a nice updated list of such support groups – and where they
are to be found, in major cities of the U.S. and Canada.
Resources on the Internet for People with Disabilities
Employment Resources for People with Disabilities
http://www.disserv.stu.umn.edu/TC/Grants/COL/listing/disemp/
This is a mind-boggling list of employment resources on the Internet
for people with disabilities. Someone at the University of Minnesota's
Disability Services really did their homework.
They have an even larger index at http://128.101.127.10/index2.html
where, under "In the Spotlight...", they list "Disability Related Resources"
and "Disability-Specific Web Sites," and – most interestingly of all –
"Careers Online," which provides a wide variety of services to job-hunters
with disabilities, at http://128.101.127.10/index2.html
And I quote, "Anyone who has access to Internet may reach our services
at no fee." Bravo.
The Job Accommodation Network: The ADA
http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/kinder/
This site has a tremendous amount of useful information about disabilities,
starting with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Created by Duncan C.
Kinder.
Click on "Links to Related Sites," and they give you a good list of
other Internet Disability Sites, as well as sites dealing with particular
diseases and other disabilities.
Click on "Job Accommodation Network," and you will be taken to a variety of resources. They provide, by telephone, individualized searches for workplace accommodations, based on the job's functional requirements, the functional limitations of the individual, and other pertinent information.
WORKink
http://www.workink.com/
A Canadian site for people with disabilities, that gives you access
to a live counselor (believe it or not) – either by signing up in advance,
or by "dropping in" between 10 and 11 a.m. EST. It also has helpful resources
for people with disabilities.
ERIC/ACVE. ERIC clearinghouse
on adult, career, and vocational education
http://ericacve.org/
Monster.com. Get
the help you need with over 1,700 pages of targeted career advice, information
and resources.
Find out what you're worth at the salary center. Search over 420,252
U.S. jobs.
http://www.monster.com/
Occupational Outlook Handbook,
2002-04 Edition
http://www.bls.gov/oco/