Assessing your interests and abilities is a great first step toward finding the right job—and discovering a fulfilling career path!
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Career Exploration Resources
Jobs Y'all: Anything is possible – that’s what Jobs Y’all is all about. Jobs Y’all is where you can explore good-paying and meaningful careers in growing industries. Here, you’ll discover rewarding and satisfying jobs right in your hometown or elsewhere in Texas. Find a career that matches your interests and goals. Your career starts here.
Texas Internship Challenge: The Texas Internship Challenge is a partnership between the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC), Texas Education Agency (TEA), and The Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), which challenge employers to offer paid internships and make it easy for students to search and apply for them.
Texas Reality Check: It's difficult to predict the future, but it's never too early to start planning for it. Texas Reality Check will show you how much your living expenses will cost, and the amount of money you will need to earn to pay for them.
Texas Career Check: Our newest online tool, Texas Career Check offers information on hundreds of job titles, pay information, and future projected jobs, this interactive website can help answer your education and career exploration questions.
Texas Works: Whether you’re finishing high school, changing careers, or looking to upskill, we equip you with the tools, support, and opportunities to thrive in high-demand industries across the state.
Texas CREWS: Tell us what college you want to attend, what you want to study, and we'll tell you what you could make in that field, and how much you could owe when you graduate.
Texas OnCourse: Texas OnCourse empowers you—pre-K through grade 12 students, parents, teachers, and counselors—to make decisions that will help you, your child, or your students succeed after high school.
My Texas Future: Whether you want to go back to school or advance your career, My Texas Future shows you what’s possible as well as how to achieve it. Find tools, resources, and advisor support for students just like you.
Get My Future: Source for career exploration, training, education, and jobs.
Job Corps: A no-cost education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives.
