Helpful Links

• American Careers
• Career Builder
• Career Key
• Career One Stop
• Champions of the Environment
• College Board
• College NET, Inc.
• Consumer Affairs
• DHEC Directory of Services for Women, Children, and Families 
• EEDA and Personal Pathways Resources
• FBI - Activities for students and employment information
• Keirsey Temperament Sorter
• Keytrain
• Kids Health
• Know It All
• Know It All - Artopia
• Know It All - Careers in the Military
• Kuder Career Planning Systems
• Mapping Your Future
• March 2 Success - free tool designed to help students with SAT/ACT and other tests
• Microburst Learning - Virtual Job Shadowing
• National Endowment for Financial Education
• New Carolina
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Occupations.pppst.com
• PersonalityType.com
• Resumeminers
• Richland County Public Library - Job Center
• SC Department of Employment and Workforce
• South Carolina Labor, Licensing & Regulation
• South Carolina Occupational Information System  FREE - Wage Chart and SC Job Outlook Brochures
• SC State Libraries new site for job seekers - new and old
• State's Career Clusters
• Test Prep Review
• Ultimate Money Skills
• WorkKeys®
• Yahoo! Education

Partners

• Batesburg-Leesville Chamber of Commerce
• Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce
• Greater Lexington Chamber of Commerce
• Irmo Chamber of Commerce
• Midlands Technical College - Continuing Education
• Midlands Technical College
• South Carolina Auto Dealers Association (SCADA)
• South Carolina Chamber of Commerce
• South Carolina Employment Security Commission
• South Carolina Independent Colleges/ Universities
• South Carolina Public Colleges/Universities
• University of South Carolina
• South Carolina State Department of Education
• South Carolina Technical Colleges
• West Metro Chamber of Commerce

Educators

• Career Activities and Vocational Lesson Plans (7-12)
• Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement
• Life of the Forest
• National Career Academy Coalition - Small Learning Communities
• SC Army National Guard
• SC National Guard Counterdrug Task Force (free service) 803-806-1520
• Teaching Jobs
• FREE Nursing Coloring Books, posters, brochures from Johnson and Johnson 1-888-981-9111

Parents

• Parents Guide to the Internet
• Shifting Gears - a website devoted to help adults with skills gaps, gain additional education and enter the workforce quickly.
• Your Child's Career - A Website for Parents

Great sites for students!

• Feed the Pig for Tweens  With the release this week of Feed the Pig for Tweens, a math-based curriculum for fourth- through sixth-graders, the Feed the Pig campaign is extending its saving message to a younger audience. The free curriculum reinforces math skills with real-life applications, such as tracking expenses and balancing a checkbook. Feed the Pig for Tweens includes The Great Piglet Challenge online interactive game and a take-home activity, Feed the Pig Family Goal, to extend important financial literacy messages to the entire family. At launch, the program will reach 120,000 students in 5,000 classrooms across the U.S. By this time next year, it is expected to be taught to more than 1 million
  students in 35,000 classrooms nationwide.
• Handwriting
• Language Arts
• Logic Problems
• Math
• Occupations.pppst.com
  

Arts and Humanities

• Columbia Film Society - Nickelodeon Theatre
• Columbia Museum of Art
• Governor's School of Fine Arts
• Historic Columbia
• Lexington County Museum
• South Carolina State Museum
• University of South Carolina School of Music

Automotive

• Automotive Youth Educational Systems
• Columbiana Chevrolet
• Dick Dyer & Associates, Inc.
• Dick Dyer Toyota
• Dick Smith Motors, Inc.
• Dodgeland of Columbia
• Galeana Chrysler Jeep
• Hampton Automotive, Inc.
• Herndon Chevrolet, Inc.
• Honda Cars of Columbia
• Jim Hudson Lexus Saab
• Jim Hudson Pontiac GMC
• Love Chevrolet Company
• National Automobile Dealers Association
• South Carolina Automobile Dealers Association
• Toyota Center, Inc.
• Wray Automotive

          VW modern manufacturing facility in Germany – video link
          http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0

Business, Management and Information Systems

• American Institute of CPA's, Academic and Career Development Team
• American Management Association
• American Purchasing Society
• Association of Information Tech Professionals
• Cisco Systems, Learning and Events
• Computing Technology Industry Association's TechCareer Compass
• Information Technology Association of America
• Microsoft Training and Certification
• Institute of Internal Auditors
• Society of Financial Service Professionals
• Telecommunications Industry Association
• Ultimate Money Skills - new website!

Construction

• Greater Columbia Home Builders Association
• Home Builders Institute
• Mashburn Construction
• National Association of Women in Construction  - Non-traditional

Finance

• National Endowment for Financial Education
• Palmettocitizens.org

Healthcare

• American Dental Association
• American Medical Association
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• Be Something Amazing - health careers website
• Edheads - surgery website
• Health Occupations Students of America - SC
• Health Occupations Students of America
• National Consortium of Health Science and Technology Education
• Nursing Degree Guide
• US Bureau of Health Professionals
• South Carolina Area Health Care Consortium (SC AHEC)
• Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems (can order materials from this site)

Hospitality and Tourism

• American Hotel and Lodging Association Educational Foundation
• American Hotel and Lodging Association
• American Hotel and Lodging Association, Educational Institute
• GoProStart is sponsored by the Hospitality Association of SC
• Hospitality Association of South Carolina
• Hospitality Careers
• National Restaurant Association
• National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
• South Carolina State Museum

Information Technology

• IT-oLogy
• Information Technology Interest Inventory
• National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies

Manufacturing

• Accutech Machine Incorporated
• Bose
• CMC-Steel South Carolina
• FN Manufacturing
• Hueck Foils
• International Paper
• Johnson Controls Incorporated
• Loxcreen
• National Institute for Metalworking Skills
• SCANA
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership
• Spirax Sarco
• Square D
• Tyson.com/careers
• Valenite
• Westinghouse
• Women In Technology International

          VW modern manufacturing facility in Germany – video link
          http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0

STEM

• A global connection to Nuclear opportunities NuHubSC
• Energy Solutions Foundation
• SCANA

Non-Traditional

• National Association of Women in Construction
• SC Commission for Minority Affairs

Community

• Goodwill Industries of SC
• SC Department of Employment and Workforce
• SC Commission for Minority Affairs
• The Palmetto Institute
• United Way of the Midlands

Employment

• America's Job Bank
• Best Jobs in USA
• Career Builder
• Career Jet
• Career Shop
• Career Magazine
• Cool Jobs
• Employment Guide
• Federal Jobs
• Get a Job
• Goodwill Job Connection
• Career.com
• Help Wanted
• Hot Jobs
• JobBank USA
• Jobs for Women 
• Job Search About.com
• Military Careers
• MonsterTRAK
• Nation Job
• O*Net Online
• Palmettocitizens.org
• Richland County Public Library - Job Center
• SC Works Online Services
• SC State Libraries new site for job seekers - new and old
• Snag-A-Job
• South Carolina State Jobs on the WWW
• The Monster Board

 

Occupations at pppst. - great site for students and educators

Virtual Jobs - Microburst Learning

Virtual Shadowing Websites