Beyond Aerospace/Career Coaching

Brevard Workforce promotes the notion of life-long learning and long-term career planning as a means of moving to higher wage/higher skill jobs.

Most job seekers are interested in climbing a career ladder to achieve higher earnings but few take the time to develop a plan, or know how to go about developing such a plan for how to achieve this. We can help. If you are not registered, you may wish to start  here.

Jobs after Shuttle, Make a Plan: Personal Assessment  CARLA HILLIARD video: 

As with any planning process, information is a key building block and the selected links shown below can serve as a starting point for job seekers wishing to use online resources to accomplish it. These and others can be found in the RESOURCES section of this website.

Some useful highlights, that are also seachable within the RESOURCES section of this site, are:

Occupational Outlook Handbook – this is provided by the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics as a career guidance publication. The handbook provides descriptive information on occupations including job functions, earnings, training and educational requirements as well as predictions concerning the future demand for occupations.

America’s Career InfoNet - this organization is part of the America’s Job Bank system and provides occupational information, geographic profiles of occupations, employment trends, and research on employment information such as wages and growth to assist in the development of your own career plan.

O’Net Career Exploration Tools – career exploration tools designed to help career seekers consider and plan their choices more effectively. The website includes tools to help individuals prepare a career plan based on three fundamental elements of career choice -work-related interests, values and abilities. The assessment results link to more than 900 occupations described by the O’NET database.

Florida e-Choices – an online career exploration and information system providing users with tools to examine interests, values and transferable skills, and to compare the results of these assessments with occupations information. This site also includes tools to personalize your career plan and save the results for use during future visits.

mySkills myFuture – helps laid-off workers and other career changers find new occupations to explore. Users can identify occupations that require skills and knowledge similar to their current or previous job, learn more about these suggested matches, locate local training programs, and/or apply for jobs.

My Next Move – My Next Move utilizes data and resources from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) system to provide current information on the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform work for all occupations in the United States. My Next Move also offers an abbreviated version of the O*NET Interest Profiler assessment and other occupational search tools to assist individuals who are new to the workforce system find career and training information in one convenient location.