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ACT Practice Test - This site provides practice tests to help students prepare for the ACT College Entrance Exam.

A guide to writing cover letters.

Tips for writing resumes.

Occupations

Career Development Manual - From the Department of Career Services at the University of Waterloo, Canada, this site provides a thoughtful, interactive guide to career planning beginning with a multi-step, self-assessment inventory (step 1) and continuing through Employment Contacts (step 4) to Career/Life Planning (step 6).

JobSmart - Courtesy of the Bay Area (San Francisco) Library & Information System (BALIS), this practical site provides links to resources for planning a career, salary information, resume tips, and real life stories from workers in many fields.

America's Job Bank - America's Job Bank is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Labor and state operated Employment Services. Job seekers may create and post resumes, search for specific jobs by location, agency, or position, and examine job market information such as occupational trends.

Welcome to CareerMosaic - Provides a searchable jobs database, resume posting service, online job fair information, and industry specific employment information. The college connection has internship information and employment resources for college and graduate students, as well as high school students who are planning ahead.

Mapping Your Future - This extensive site provides information and links to a variety of college and career planning organizations. It is sponsored by a group of guaranty agencies that participate in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) which is committed to providing information about higher education and career opportunities.

Occupational Outlook Handbook - This U.S. government publication describes occupations and for each provides information on the nature of the work, education and training needed, expected earnings and the future outlook for that occupation.

Career Resource Center - Career Resource Center is the Internet's most complete and extensive index of career related web sites. Here you will find over 7,500 links to jobs with Major Employers - jobs posted at Major Newspapers - jobs posted to Internet Newsgroups. In our Learning section you will find links to Colleges and Libraries, while on our Career Reference page you will find links to State Employment Offices, as well as links to a variety of helpful career advice. Look in our Career Services area for links to career professional such as employment agencies, out-placement firms and the like. In the After Hours page look for links to Travel and Recreation, Hobby, Leisure, and other "fun" sites.

Nonacademic Employment in Math and Science - This site provides information to students and faculty about nonacademic employment in mathematics and mathematical applications used in industry jobs.

Business Job Finder - The Business Job Finder is designed to help you get started on a satisfying career in the business world. This site contains information on a variety of business career areas, listings of current jobs and a variety of other reference material. Take the time to learn about career options that might be right for you. Make a well-informed choice. The information here is maintained by the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University.

Career information - A wealth of information form the career planning process to careers in business, health, legal, and the sciences.

Career Search - Career Search is a way to find out about jobs and careers. If you already know what you want to do, go ahead and browse the list of Career Categories. Select a career to learn what to expect from a job and what to do in school so that you can work toward the job you want. You'll find out bout training and qualifications, what earning to expect, and what the future holds for each occupation. No one but you can decide your future. Why not be informed?

Colleges and Universities

The High School Hub - The High School Hub is a noncommercial gateway to excellent free online academic resources for high school students featuring college information and more.

CampusTours - The Source for College Campus Tours. Take visual tours of college campuses with links to colleges and other helpful sites including financial helps.

College and Universities Home Pages - This site includes links to the home pages of more than 3,000 colleges and universities worldwide.

Peterson's Education Center - A comprehensive site covering schools, careers, applying for college and financing your education.

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities - This site includes general information on technical and community colleges and state universities plus links to the home pages of all of these schools..

Study Abroad - Listed are thousands of academic programs in more than 100 countries throughout the world, with links to study abroad programs, academic courses, and internships. The programs are searchable by country, subject, and language.

U.S. News and World Report - This comprehensive site includes college and university ranking, reprinted articles from the print edition, listings of women's colleges, black colleges, and more. Features the top 25 schools in several categories taken from the magazine's 1998 edition of America's Best Colleges.

Community Colleges - Courtesy of University of Texas at Austin, this site includes links to state listings of more that 800 two-year, post-secondary institutions offering certificate programs and associate degrees.

Financial Aid

Strong's College Planning area can walk both parents and students through the steps of developing a successful plan for their college investments.

Minnesota Higher Education Services Office - To help students and families plan and pay for higher education. Also includes a financial aid estimator that allows students and parents to enter their personal information and use the Minnesota State Grant formula to estimate their financial aid eligibility.

U.S. Department of Education's FAFSA on the Web - Families my use this site to complete and submit directly over the Internet the FAFSA Application for Federal Student Aid.

Best Values rankings - Learn about scholarship opportunities, college-sponsored aid, or private-aid sources. Use the interactive workshops to calculate college costs or your Expected Family Contribution, or let their financial aid experts help you find the assistance you need in the Answer Zone.

Federal Government Financial Aid Assistance - You'll find detailed information about assistance that is available from the DOE to help students pay for college expenses. Use their user-friendly guides to learn about federal grants, loans, and work-study programs for financial aid applicants and high school students.

Mapping Your Future offers help in finding financial aid. It is sponsored by a group of guaranty agencies that participate in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). The site provides accurate and up-to-date information about student aid and helps to develop innovative student aid services to assist students and families.

Sallie Mae, or the Student Loan Marketing Association features an outstanding website jam-packed with valuable information for anyone needing financial aid assistance for college. You'll learn how to plan for college, how to pay for college, how to shop for financial aid, how to get education loans, and much more.

fastWEB - At Financial Aid Search Through the Web (fastWEB), you simply set up a personalized profile that will match your specific skills, abilities, and interests, to fastWEB's database of over 400,000 scholarships. Complete their six simple steps to get your results in five minutes or less - online!

CollegeView College Search - This is a free online college search service that profiles over 3,700 colleges and universities. Besides offering virtual tours of campuses and electronic applications, you'll also find financial aid information and career planning tools.

Financial Aid Information from the U.S. Department of Education:

http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/student_guide/index.html

http://www.ed.gov/publications/FYE/index.html

These sites provide information and documents about federal student financial aid programs and how to apply for them.

FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page - This page (sponsored by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators) provides links to many sources of information about student aid. It also includes a Scholarship Scam Alert, with important information about scams and how to avoid them.

CASHE (College Aid Sources for Higher Education) - Sponsored by SallieMae, this online scholarship service is one of the most comprehensive sources of financial aid resources for college. CASHE provides a searchable database including information about scholarships, fellowships, competitions, and cooperative work programs.

Student and Parent Loan Information - Provided by the College Board, this extensive site includes debt planning tips, college cost and expected family contribution worksheets, and information about a variety of loan programs.

WashingtonPost.com: Paying for College - A guide to financial information and resources for financing a college education, for parents and students.

Statistics

Bureau of Labor Statistics - This site, courtesy of the Department of Labor, includes information about the economy, including projections and regional information.

Minnesota Dept. of Economic Security - Includes information on hourly wages for 467 occupations in Minnesota, a list of the top 100 occupations in the state, current job listings and general information about the labor market in Minnesota.

General Information Sites

College Board Online is the most comprehensive college information site. This site includes College Board tests, programs, and online registration , a "Test Question of the Day", a searchable database of colleges, financial aid information (including a financial aid calculator), career planning information, a fee-based essay evaluation service, and more.

Peterson's Education Center - includes information about educational programs at all levels and provides searchable databases of colleges and academic programs.

Princeton Review Online - this extensive college and career information site includes timed tests, essay hints, an internship database, job hunting hints, career lists by salary and industry, career profiles, and more.

CollegeView is a free online college search service with profiles of 3,700+ colleges and universities, virtual tours of selected schools, electronic applications, financial aid information, and career planning tools.

Register on-line for the Selective Service

As you may already know, all 18 year-old males are required to register with Selective Service, and you can now register on the Internet. Internet registration is a new service provided by the Agency and registration in immediate. It takes about 10-20 seconds to validate the information input by the young man and then to assign and display his Selective Service registration number for him.

Scholarship Information

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