Tools for Job Seekers!!

• CareerVoyages.gov is filled with labor market information, career resources and industry driven content aimed at 15-25 year olds, their parents, career advisors and career changers. This site also hosts the extremely popular career information magazine InDemand.
• CareerScope. Self-administered* interest inventory and aptitude assessment. Assists with career planning. Can be utilized to help individuals determine if they have the aptitude for a particular occupation. Entire process takes approximately 1 hour. * Self-administered assessment accessible only in the One-Stop Centers – not available by Internet.
• SCOIS. Used for obtaining information on various occupations. Features Multimedia/Full-Motion Occupation Videos for some occupations. Also features a self-administered assessment*, college search and financial aid information.
• O*NET. Replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). O*Net has information for more than 950 occupations based on the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System. Allows users to create a list of skills they have or plan to acquire, find occupations that match most of their skills, generate lists of up to 10 occupations with user-identified knowledge areas, skills, work environments, and work activities, creates a summary of the most important characteristics of an occupation, and provides a list of characteristics associated with a selected occupation.
• Labor Market Information. Find information on what occupations are hot in your area and across the nation.

• Quintessential Careers Help plan your future with these self-assessment and career discovery tests.
• Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential (MAPP). MAPP is a world-class personal assessment that takes 15 minutes to complete. MAPP identifies your true motivations toward work and allows you to match yourself to job categories to see where you best fit.

• WinWay Resume. Resume writing program. Assists individuals in writing resumes through use of templates. Best for basic resumes and first time resume creators. Can be more challenging than using Microsoft Word for advanced users who want to significantly modify their resume format.
• Use MS Word to Write Your Resume. You can access MS Word on a One-Stop Center computer to write your resume.
• Links to online Resume Writing Guides
• www.careerbuilder.com
• www.bestjobsusa.com
• www.scjoblink.com

• CLW Math & Reading. Basic math and reading skills assessment. Assists with determining customers' aptitude skill levels necessary for pursuing various careers. Also has a personal interest, aptitude and values inventory.
• Employability & Work Maturity. Contains effective work development information. Has interactive skill building exercises for reinforcing good work ethics. Features information on Career Decision Making (Self Assessment, Information About Jobs and Career Decisions), Job Seeking Skills (Finding a Job, Job Search Documents and Interviewing for a Job), and Work Maturity Skills (Employer’s Expectations, Job Performance, Interpersonal Skills, Increasing Your Value to Your Employer and Personal Finance).
• Mavis Beacon . Self-paced keyboarding/typing learning tool for beginning to advanced users. For beginning, can be used to teach basic keyboarding. For advanced, can be used to increase accuracy and speed.

WorkKeys assessments give students and workers reliable, relevant information about their workplace skill levels. Combined with information about skill levels required for jobs, assessments information can help users make better career and educational decisions. The WorkKeys system is the most efficient assessment process available.

WIA offers WorkKeys® Assessments and Profiling. Please click here for more information about WorkKeys®

KeyTrain is the complete interactive training system for the WorkKeys basic workplace skills. KeyTrain provides a comprehensive learning system for common skills required by all jobs, based on ACT's WorkKeys employments system.

Where to obtain this information:

• Libraries
• Company annual reports
• Company visits
• Informational interviews
• Observation of employees leaving work
• Current/former employees
• Newspapers
• Business organizations (Chamber of Commerce, etc.)
• Industry directories
• Internet (company home page)
• Local One-Stop Career Center

Using the information in your job search:

• Determine which job openings sound interesting.
• Conduct your research using the tips in this JobShop Brief.
• Complete an information sheet for the job and the company for each job opening that interests you.
• Compare this information with your interests, knowledge, skills, abilities, salary/fringe requirements and other needs.
• Decide whether it is worth your time to apply for this job.
• If the answer is "no", don't waste your time.
• If the answer is "yes", go for it!

• South Carolina Employment Security Commission
• The Greenville News
• NationJobs - Chamber of Commerce
• Greenville County Job Openings
• City of Greenville
• Goodwill Industries
• Greenville County Schools
• Greenville Hospital System
• St. Francis Bon Secours Hospital System