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In January of this year, we wrote about a new app, CareerInfo, designed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for career exploration. This week the newest version of the CareerInfo app was released with new career content. If you are wanting to make a career change or are currently job hunting or are a student needing to choose a major and career direction, this is a tool you can use to explore the occupations that best fit you!  The...
  Most people have “tunnel vision” about career options. They are aware of only a small number of jobs–usually ones that family members or friends do, or ones they have seen portrayed on TV or in the movies. This limited awareness restricts career choices as you can only choose from career options of which you are aware of.  The more career options that you are exposed to, the more you expand your awareness of options that could...
Recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), along with the U.S. Department of Labor, released the CareerInfo  app that is now available from the  Apple App Store  and  Google Play .  The CareerInfo  app provides information from the   Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) the most popular BLS resource for career information.   The OOH is described as "the nation's most widely used sources of career information. It provides details on...
by Kevin Brennfleck and Kay Marie Brennfleck National Certified Career Counselors & Life Calling CoachesSM So you are ready to make a career change...but you don't know what you want to do. You can probably readily list all the jobs you  don't  want to do, but perhaps have only a couple of options in mind. (And maybe you aren't too excited by either of those!) If you are like most people, you may have started your "career planning" by...
By Kevin Brennfleck,and Kay Marie Brennfleck National Certified Career Counselors   One of the best resources for exploring careers is the Occupational Outlook Handout.  Every two years it is updated with the most recent information about jobs in the US.  While it is not as comprehensive as the O*NET Online, it provides information about jobs that are done by a high percentage of the US population and provides information that goes...