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Resources for Career Counselors

Looking for additional resources that career counselors may need?

Minnesota Resources

Creative Job Search (CJS)
Helps job seekers identify their skills. Includes job search tips for resumes, cover letters, and interviews. Creative Job Search strategy training is available at Minnesota WorkForce Centers.

GPS LifePlan
Holistic websites and supportive programs with links to help students, veterans and workers set goals in the areas of career, education, finance, leadership, and personal.

ISEEK's Training Resource Center
If you work with clients in a WorkForce Center, public and private college or university, social service agency, or are in private practice, find or request training here.

Job Seekers Guide
The Job Seekers Guide has curriculum (390KB, .pdf), website and a print guide (706KB, .pdf) to walk people through a career planning process. Created in partnership with Jewish Family and Children's Services of Minneapolis.

Labor Market Information (952KB, .pdf)
Explains the labor market information available in the MnCareers section. It shows how occupations are organized, which occupational data is provided, and where to find additional resources.

Mental Health Association of Minnesota (MHAM)
Offers services in advocacy and education in response to the needs of individuals with mental illnesses and their family members.

Minnesota Campus Compact
Leverages the collective assets of higher education institutions and communities and builds partnerships. Educates students to develop creative solutions to pressing public issues.

Minnesota Career Information System (MCIS)
Produces useful tools and publications on careers and training. Products use Minnesota as well as national data.

Minnesota Library Information Network (MnLINK)
Provides access to a statewide virtual library. Includes open access to participating Minnesota library catalogs and secured access to available electronic resources. The MnLINK Gateway also provides links to selected free internet resources.

Minnesota State Legislature
Find your legislators, follow bills, schedule a tour of the Capitol, learn about the legislative process and how to participate, and more.

Minnesota's Apprenticeship Unit
Learn how state-registered apprenticeship programs build Minnesota's workforce.

MnCareers
Offers easy-to-understand education and career information for students and job seekers. The annual publication includes a companion Facilitator Guide with Minnesota-specific career resources and activities, lesson plans, and curriculum.

North Star (official website for the State of Minnesota)
Find links to online information, services, and tools offered by the state as well as to all state agencies.

Youth Programs and Services
Use this tool to find youth programs and services in your community.

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  1. National Resources

    CareerOneStop
    Provides employers, job seekers, learners, and workforce professionals access to national electronic tools. These include mySkills myFuture, Worker ReEmployment, America's Career InfoNet, America's Service Locator, and the Key to Career Success military transition portal.

    Career and Technical Education
    Provides a newsletter on current issues and trends. Recent themes include apprenticeship, adult education and retraining, alternative energy, emerging careers, and guidance and career development.

    Education World
    Helps educators find education information online. It includes a search engine for educational sites, shared lesson plans, articles and featured columns, employment listings, and more.

    National Service-learning Clearinghouse
    Supports the service-learning community in all levels of education, community-based organizations, tribal programs, and all others interested in strengthening schools and communities using service-learning.

    National Youth Leadership Council
    Links youth, educators, and communities through service-learning. Empowers youth to transform themselves from recipients of information and resources into contributing members of society.

    The Real Game
    Includes six games by age level. The games are designed to be integrated into a classroom or client-based curriculum to assist users in career and life planning. Games include "real life" simulation exercises.

    Student Paths
    Student Paths is a publication for high school students to use as they plan their transition from high school to the future.

    Youth Service America
    Improves communities by increasing the number and the diversity of young people participating in service-learning.

    What Color is Your Parachute?
    This book is one of the best-selling job hunting guides available. The website is a supplemental tool to use with the book.