Career Guidance
High School

Indiana school counselors teach a Guidance Curriculum that helps all students achieve academically, prepare for a career and college, and develop good citizenship skills.  School counselors coordinate guidance in all Indiana schools as required by the Educational and Career Services component of 511 IAC 4-1 corresponding to the Indiana School Counseling Program Standards and the Guidance Curriculum component of the American School Counselor Association National Model.

Guidance Curriculum

• Indiana Student Guidance Standards
  http://www.doe.in.gov/octe/goldstar/sstandards.html
• Classroom Lessons & Activities by Student Guidance Standard
  http://www.indianastandardsresources.org/standardSummary.asp?Subject=gui&Grade=

Career Guidance Programs & Resources

• Drive of Your Life
  https://www.driveofyourlife.org/
• Career Voyages
  http://www.careervoyages.gov/students-main.cfm
• Hoosier Hot 50 Jobs
  http://www.in.gov/dwd/hoosierhotjobs/
• Ready for the Real World
  www.learnmoreindiana.org/careers/exploring/Pages/RealWorld.aspx

Career Exploration

• Career Interest Inventories
• Career Interest Checklist – Learn More Indiana
  http://www.learnmoreindiana.com/
• Career OINK Quiz
  http://www.careeroink.com/career-reference/assessment.asp
• Drive of Your Life
  https://www.driveofyourlife.org/
• Career Cluster Inventory (PDF version only)
  http://www.careerclusters.org/pdf/preferred/InterestSurvey.pdf
• Career Key
  http://www.careerkey.org/english/
• Work Values Assessment (login using option 2)
  http://incis.intocareers.org/onet_work/onetwork_intro.aspx
• Career Compass
  http://www.careervoyages.gov/careercompass-main.cfm
• Emotional IQ Assessment
  http://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=1121
• Career Profiles
• Learn More Career Profiles
  http://www.learnmoreindiana.com/
• Career Clusters
• Indiana’s Career Clusters
  http://www.doe.in.gov/octe/facs/CrrClstrGrid.html#16CCs
• National Career Clusters
  http://careerclusters.org/

Career Plans

• Indiana Career & Course Planner
  http://www.learnmoreindiana.org/k12academics/Documents/2007pubs/ccp.pdf
• Indiana Career Pathways by Career Clusters
  http://www.doe.in.gov/octe/facs/CrrClstrGrid.html
• Sample HS Career & Course Plans
  http://www.doe.in.gov/sservices/sc_hs-sample-forms.html

Job Shadowing, Internships & Work-Based Learning Experiences

• Job Shadowing
• Job Shadowing Information (click on Career Exploration)
  http://www.learnmoreindiana.com/
• Job Shadow Day
  http://www.jobshadow.org/
• Take Daughters & Sons To Work Day
  http://www.daughtersandsonstowork.org/
  
• Cooperative Education
• Indiana Cooperative Education Courses
  http://doe.state.in.us/publications/docs/CourseDesPt02/CooperativeEducation.pdf
• Indiana Cooperative Education Guidelines & Procedures Manual
  http://www.doe.in.gov/octe/bme/curriculum/pdf/Co-op/AcknowledgmentsAndIntroduction.pdf
  
• Internships
• Internship Information (click on Career Exploration)
  http://www.learnmoreindiana.com/
• Indiana INTERNnet
  http://www.indianaintern.net/home.asp
• Indiana Internship Courses
• Professional Career Internship (page 9)
  http://doe.state.in.us/publications/docs/CourseDesPt02/2006-10-18-CTEBusinessIT.pdf
• Career Exploration Internship (page 2)
  http://doe.state.in.us/publications/docs/CourseDesPt02/Multidisc.pdf
• Indiana Internship Manual
  http://www.doe.in.gov/octe/bme/curriculum/pdf/Co-op/InternshipManual06.pdf

Workforce Readiness Assessments & Certificates

• Assessments

• WorkKeys
  http://www.act.org/workkeys/assess/index.html
• Indiana WorkEthic Certification
  http://www.in.gov/dwd/partners/workethic.html
• IDOE Memo on Work Readiness Waiver
  (attach Doc)
  

• Certificates

• Indiana Work Ethic Certificate
  http://www.in.gov/dwd/partners/workethic.html
• National Career Readiness Certificate
  http://www.act.org/certificate/index.html
• Sample Work Readiness Certificate
  (use DOE Word doc)

Work Permits & Student Employment Laws

• Student Employment Laws
• Indiana Teen Worker Resources
  http://www.in.gov/labor/childlabor/index.html
• Indiana Teen Work Hours Poster I
  http://www.in.gov/dwd/forms/hrposter.pdf
• Indiana Teen Work Hours Poster II
  http://www.in.gov/labor/childlabor/pdf/hrposter.pdf
  
• Work Permits
• Indiana Work Permit Forms
  http://www.in.gov/labor/childlabor/forms.html
• Work Permit Rules & Form
  http://www.in.gov/labor/childlabor/pdf/issoficr.pdf

Labor Market Information

• Hoosier Hot 50 Jobs
  http://www.in.gov/dwd/hoosierhotjobs/index.html
• Indiana Strategic Skills Information by Region
  http://www.stats.indiana.edu/ssi/
• Indiana Skills Pathways Career Guide
  http://www.in.gov/dwd/careerguides/index.html
• WorkKeys Scores Required by Indiana Occupations
  http://www.stats.indiana.edu/ssi/work_keys_skill_req.xls