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About MnCareers

Need help finding the type of education or training that's right for you? Having a hard time deciding how to start or change your career? MnCareers is a publication that can help with education and career decisions.

MnCareers is a career and education planning guide for explorers of all ages. The 130+ page publication, updated annually, has been produced for more than 10 years. It has received numerous awards and endorsements.

MnCareers Helps Career Explorers

MnCareers' goal is to help career explorers identify interests and understand the opportunities and challenges faced in the world of higher education and work.

Each year, MnCareers provides Minnesota-specific labor market, education, and career exploration information. Career explorers can take an interest assessment and view details on over 200 occupations and resources for education, training, and job searching. Links to career resources and services offered by Minnesota state entities are also listed.

MnCareers, produced by iSeek Solutions, can be used as a print companion to the ISEEK website.

MnCareers Is a Starting Place for Making Informed Decisions

MnCareers uses the nationally recognized 16 career clusters to categorize more than 200 Minnesota jobs. This career data gives details about local wages, skills and training needed, and what it's like on the job. MnCareers directs you to more resources if you want to learn more about a career cluster.

MnCareers also walks you through options for your future, including higher education, apprenticeship, the military, and more. There are also a lot of local resources for job seekers looking for immediate help. The MnCareers content map shows the wide variety of topics covered in the publication.

All Types of Students and Job Seekers Use MnCareers

Counselors, teachers, and community groups have used MnCareers for more than 10 years. Most often, the guide is used as a classroom textbook, as a tool for one-on-one career counseling, or as a resource for individual career exploration

Historically, the largest consumers of MnCareers are high school students and faculty. The rest are distributed to colleges and universities, adult learning centers, middle schools, rehabilitation counseling offices, libraries, local and state agencies, correctional facilities, community organizations, and other workforce development and education venues.

Most of the state's Workforce Centers use MnCareers with their clients on a regular basis. Individual job seekers and parents also purchase MnCareers to help with college and career decisions.

MnCareers Content Comes From Trusted Partners

MnCareers partners with Minnesota's top resources. This provides access to extensive career and education information. The publication works in collaboration with:

This collaboration allows partners to reach more people with updated, accurate, and innovative career and educational information.

MnCareers Offers Expanded Content Online

The contents of this year's MnCareers can be found in several places on the ISEEK website. By combining MnCareers' online content with ISEEK, students and job seekers have access to more interest and skills assessments, a longer list of resources for career cluster exploration, and more details on postsecondary education and training programs in Minnesota.

This content map will help you find the online equivalent of a specific MnCareers page.

MnCareers also prints annual regional supplements. The education and labor market information in these complements the information on ISEEK's regional websites. The in-demand occupations in the supplements are chosen based on methodology developed by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). This regional content is sponsored by DEED, local Workforce Investment Boards, iSeek Solutions, and other regional partners.

Feedback and Customer Opinions

MnCareers helps students and job seekers make informed career and education choices. If there are ways that we can better help you, let us know. Your feedback is used to improve MnCareers and other projects each year. Write or e-mail to tell us what you think.

Denise Felder / iSeek Solutions
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Wells Fargo Place, 30 7th Street East, Suite 350
St. Paul, MN 55101
E-mail: denise.felder@iseek.org

Ordering MnCareers

To order MnCareers, return a completed order form. Distribution begins in September of each year.

Copies of MnCareers can be found at Minnesota WorkForce Centers and area libraries.