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Career Guidance Programs

It’s hard to make choices when we don’t know what the choices are.

Career information resources can help us learn about the options and make good choices in navigating our career paths.

These programs offer:

• Career assessments to compare your personal characteristics with occupations of possible interest.
• Descriptions of occupations including salaries, training requirements, growth or decline rates, and more.
• Videos of occupations showing workers on-the-job and sharing of their experiences.
• Links to schools, colleges, and universities offering relevant training.
• Lists of current job openings for occupations of interest.
• Instruction and guidance on creating resumes, interviewing, and orchestrating a job search.

Below are some of the best resources, those which we often find useful in answering students’ questions.

If unsure which would best serve your needs, please contact the CEC staff. We will be happy to discuss these resources with you to help find the best answers to your career and college related questions.

Primary programs

Pathful Explore – Our best career guidance program

Pathful offers career assessments of a person’s interests, vocational personality, work-related values, skills, and lifestyle preferences. It provides descriptions of suggested occupations including salaries, job market trends, training requirements, and Virtual Job Shadow videos of workers on-the-job who describe their experiences on the job and answer commonly-asked questions.

Pathful Explore is available to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ students and staff through Canvas. To find it, check into Canvas with your Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ credentials, and look in the left-hand menu to find the Pathful Explore link.

Prospective students may obtain access by contacting the Career Exploration Center staff.

Career Coach includes an assessment of personal interests and connects the results to programs of study offered at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­. Career Coach offers descriptions of occupations for which Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ offers preparation programs. These includes salary levels and anticipated numbers of job openings for those occupations in Florida.

Other good career information resources:

This site is a simplified version of O*Net with brief, clear descriptions of many occupations. It’s best use is to quickly scan many occupations to determine which might be worthy of further attention.

ACINET is an outstanding general career information resource which includes job descriptions, salary levels, educational requirements, and links to schools and colleges offering related training. It links to current job openings through their listings of State and Federal .

This site is an online version of Ferguson's Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, which is the most comprehensive career reference available.  It offers descriptions of 1100 occupations, more than any other site listed here. There are videos of 252 career fields, each 10 to 20 minutes long, which go into more depth than the videos in other resources. Ferguson's includes instructions on creating resumes, handling interviews, and other job seeking topics. Access to this program requires a Santa Fe College student account. For alternate access please contact the Career Exploration Center (link to our Contact page)

This valuable site provides descriptions of hundreds of occupations. Here you can find occupations by category or with the A-Z alphabetical index. Highly recommended!

Offers detailed information on many occupations in the United States. It is especially good in describing the skills and activities required in many occupations. Once you have found a job description of interest, click on "Details" to see a bar-graph representing the importance of each factor in that occupation, and the "+" sign to see more factors.

is also available in Excel and other formats. We support our students when using these resources. Please feel free to contact us if you have unanswered questions or unresolved needs.

From the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, this is the best site for getting detailed local information on salaries and growth rates for occupations in the United States. Suggested path: OES Data, Occupation Profiles, select a category, then select an occupation of interest.

This is the most comprehensive site for salary data. Also includes job descriptions and training requirements. Gives low, medium and high salary ranges for occupations, sorted by occupation and state, zip code, or metropolitan area.

This site may appear overwhelming at first, but can be very useful. If you have a question about the job market, growth trends, salaries, demographics, etc. the answer is probably here. If you need assistance in using this or any online career resource, feel free to contact the CEC staff.