CareerZone
Resources for Students

Career Information for Youth - Occupation summaries sorted by subjects, interests and hobbies common among students. Written in everyday English we can all understand.

College Prep Tests and Civil Service Exams - Time to get out of your chair. You need to prepare for tomorrow and here is all the information you need to get started.

Didn't Find What You Were Looking For? - These links didn't fit in any of the other categories but they are still worth a closer look.

Factsheets - One page fact sheets from the New York State Department of Labor on a variety of topic areas, including Careers in STEM

File a Consumer Complaint - Whether successfully mediating credit card or utility billing disputes on behalf of consumers or acting as a consumer liaison or a troubleshooter for victims of identity theft, the NYS Consumer Protection Board (CPB) advocates for and empowers New York consumers with direct intervention on many issues. The Agency responds to individual consumer complaints by working to settle disputes between a consumer and a business through voluntary mediation. Through this intervention, the CPB achieves significant savings in the form of refunds, rebates, credits, and avoided costs which in 2008 reached more than $1.1 million. These savings significantly impact the lives of consumers who suffer from real hardship.

Financial Life Skills Tools - In these difficult economic times, you might be seeking to create or modify your family budget or just want to focus on one area of your financial health, using these helpful NYS Consumer Protection Board (CPB) financial planning tools. Find information about credit usage and counseling, debt collection and mediation, financial planners, and payday loans on the CPB's website. You will also find the CPB's Money Maps budgeting series available for personal use.

iSciWNY - What would it be like to work in the life sciences? What are the types of jobs in the life sciences? What education and training do I need? iSciWNY is a new program that will give you the answers to these questions and more.

Job Banks - Current job opportunities for teens and young adults. Primarily seasonal, part-time, hourly, internship openings and volunteer positions.

KnowHow2Go - In order to turn students' college dreams into action-oriented goals, the American Council on Education, Lumina Foundation for Education and the Ad Council launched the KnowHow2GO campaign in January 2007. This multiyear, multimedia effort includes television, radio and outdoor public service advertisements (PSAs) that encourage 8th through 10th graders to prepare for college using four simple steps.

Scholarships - Are you turning down free money? Every year scholarships go unclaimed because qualified applicants fail to apply for them, here are some scholarships and search tools to help you avoid being one of them.

Teen Business Link - Developed by the Small Business Administration to introduce young entrepreneurs to the concept of small business ownership as a viable career choice, this site features the fundamentals of starting a small business from brainstorming to evaluating the feasibility of ideas, developing the business plan, learning from successful young entrepreneurs, making sound financial decisions and utilizing various entrepreneurial development services, SCORE, Junior Achievement, DECA and the National Academy Foundation.

The Education Super-Highway - Which exit will you take after high school? 4 year colleges, 2 year colleges, Military, Apprenticeships & Internships.

The NCES Kids' Zone - The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.