What are good resources for starting out in career planning?
How should students organize their approach?
What questions should they ask themselves?
What and how should they research?

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UAT Career Services Director Nate Bealor's Top 5 Sites for Digital Entertainment Career Info

1. GameCareerGuide.com
2. CreativeHeads.com
3. AnimationMentor.com
4. ConceptArt.org
5. CGSociety.com

"Great places for starting to learn about careers and projects in the game design, art, and animation industry."

ACT Career Options
http://www.actstudent.org/wwm/index.html
Enter the field your planning on entering then research the pay, releated jobs to that field, details of jobs,etc -(Christopher Gholston)

Career and College Planning Resources
http://www.khake.com/page51.html
A site with many links to educate yourself about your goals, interests, and career planning.
-Brandon Jacobs

Career Tests, Career Counseling, Free Job Search Advice
http://www.careerplanner.com/ -MustanshioMcHatman

Career goal planning
http://nauticom.net/www/aw/goalset.html
this site helps you put together a list of goals to help you with your career decisions -Brad Reamer
Career Planning
http://careerplanning.about.com/ Provides many different links to career options and different career planning steps. -Chris Shaw

The Career News
A nice website with a weekly newletter designed to answer questions and give helpful tips in getting a job. It is general career advice, but overall good advice. -Eric Kaplan

CareerTrainer
A great overall site that covers everything from breaking into your career to portfolio management to hiring. - Steven Janca

Looking for an actual job opening?
This website actually lists every possible career opening all over the U.S. If you're pretty much open to moving around, this would be a wonderful way to look up companies or places that may want you as an employee. If you're looking for positions within a specific state, I would suggest clicking on the state first, and then searching via the keyword search at the top. - Paul Ardiles

Mapping your future
http://www.mapping-your-future.org/planning/
this site allows you to develop a career plan and progress from there to find out your desired path-Brad Reamer

Monster Job Searching - A place to post one's resume and look at other people's resumes for inspiration. Once you have a chosen career path and some experience to get you started down that road this is a good jumping off point. - Cody Ziegler

Dice.com One of the leaders in technology placement. Found many tech jobs here. - Brooke Beresford

Career Builder My other favorite job site - Brooke Beresford
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http://www.job-hunt.org/findingjobs.shtml This site is great for finding a job in any field or even good for finding employees for your own business ideas. - Eric Fisher

Career Tests
This isn't a direct resource, but it takes you to a page that has links to other sites that allow you to take a test to see what career your'e suited for. This is perfect if your a bit unsure about what you want to do, though it could give you more confusion as well. -Stephen Grant

Steps on Career Planning
http://www.khake.com/page51.html This page provides links for students and guidance counselors including resources to self assessments, career planning, career development and college planning. -Levar Hewlett

FastWeb Resources
http://www.fastweb.com/ Although not exclusively a career website, they’re fairly good at finding jobs in your specific field, as well as related things like work-study, internships and scholorships. -Nick Shaw

Job Search at About.com
General Job/Career hunting advice, for all professions. - Steven JancaJobs in Video Game DevelopmentLong article outlining how to get into the game industry along with areas to specialize in. - Kristopher Velez

Monster.com Career Advice
http://career-advice.monster.com/home.aspx
This site has various helpful articles for helping out anyone looking for a job. It has articles such as “Top 10 Resume Mistakes” and advice on things once a job is obtained. -Brant Hestrup

http://www.gamejobs.com/
This site is a job finder that let's people in on jobs and helps to find openinings and positions for people interested in working in the industry. - Donovan Velez

http://www.gamedev.net/
An online community for game developers and designers in all phases of their careers.- Donovan Velez

http://www.igda.org/
A professional organization that provides community for game industry workers and advocates for issues affecting game developers. - Donovan Velez

http://www.gamasutra.com/
Up-to-date industry news, job listings, product news and more. - Donovan Velez

http://www.careerservices.calpoly.edu/students/careerplanning/careerplanninglinks.htm
This link leads to other links about researching and planning for careersHers's in general. You can research you major and use the info you collect to start planning a career. -Donovan Velez

www.indeed.com is a helpful tool when it comes to planning for a career because it allows you to pick a location in the USA that you would like to work, then you pick what kind of work you want to do. This site uses that information and its massive database of salary information to determine what kind of pay you can expect to start with for that line of work in that location. it is seriously cool. -William McMullen

www.justtechjobs.com is very useful for finding the demand for certain geek/nerd specific jobs. There are lots of individualized websites that it branches off to also. (e.g. www.justhelpdeskjobs.com, www.justnetworkingjobs.com, etc...) this site is a lot like Dice, but its polarized subsites gives it a unique advantage. -William McMullen

www.workingmother.com shows some very cool information about the best companies for working mothers. On this site is a list of 100 of the TOP family friendly jobs in the USA. The perks include things like Paid Maternity leave, paid Paternity leave after the baby is born. Scholarships for children of employees, and all kinds of family growth compensation. I know this won't apply to most of you but for those interested in growing a family this is valuable information. -William McMullen

A Non-Game Related Website
Here is a very interesting career quiz that could be very helpful.
http://www.careerkey.org/ -James Breyley

A Military-Related Website
Yet another non-game related website, but is full of useful tid-bits assuming you are interested in military service.
http://www.myfuture.com/ -James Breyley

Job Search Engines
Here's two decent job search engines like Monster
http://www.indeed.com/
http://www.simplyhired.com/ -James Breyley

How to Make a Resume'
Here's a neat website for help creating a resume'.
http://www.alec.co.uk/how-to-write-a-resume/outline-to-make-a-resume.htm -James Breyley