General Resources
This decision-making tool asks a series of questions designed to help you clarify your decisions, priorities, options and plans when choosing a career.
Self-Assessment and Career Exploration
For career exploration try Career Assessments and eParachute. JobNow also includes live chat service for resume reviews, business writing, interviewing skills and job search.
National Career Development Association
Offers a collection of online resources for career exploration.
A proven, successful career exploration and planning system designed for students. Offers a wealth of information on 900 occupations.
A search engine that lists results from hundreds of job boards and company websites.
Identify occupations that require skills and knowledge similar to your current or previous job, learn more about these suggested matches, locate local training programs, apply for jobs and more.
Explore Careers - CareerOne Stop
A large job search portal where you can assess your skills and interests, look at your work values, find job outlooks and use more tools to help you decide on a career. In English and Spanish.
Job Descriptions and Industry Exploration
Includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations. From the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For youth, an excellent resource for those looking to start or change careers featuring 900 career options, searchable by key words or by industry. Assess your interests and career paths using O*NET Interest Profiler, a personality test that will point you in the right direction.
Has detailed descriptions of the world of work, hundreds of job descriptions, outlooks, salaries and more.
California Occupational Guides
Similar to Occupational Outlook Handbook but specific to California. Offers job descriptions, outlooks and more.
Licenses and Licensing Boards in California
Check to see if your desired occupation requires a license. Select California from the list of states.
Labor Market Information
California Employment Development Department
For more information, click "Jobs;" there you will find information on unemployment, career trends in the news, job search tools and much more.
Employment Projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
A vast amount of information here on the US labor market projecting into the ten years into the future.
Salaries
California Wages by Area and Occupation
Scroll down to San Francisco County and click on "Excel" under the most recent quarter. Once you are in the Excel worksheet, perform a "find" search within the document by holding down "Ctrl + F," then type the job title you are interested in finding.
BLS: Wages by Area and Occupation
BLS wage data is available by occupation for the nation, regions, states, and many metropolitan areas.
An inside look at jobs, salaries, company reviews and interview questions asked at companies and organizations.
Salary Negotiation
Negotiating compensation - Marty Nemko
Career counselor, author, radio host of Work with Marty Nemko. Marty Nemko has written many articles including salary negotiation.
Negotiate your salary - CareerOneStop
Evaluate the offer wisely, communicate effectively, understand the rules of the game and more.