Career-Engaged Resources

Career Advice Videos: CareerSpots - This video channel includes career-ready skills, job-search skills, and student success stories.

• Majors & Career Paths - These resources link major profiles with information on common career paths.
• Industries & Career Paths - An industry is a broad group of businesses or organizations with similar activities, products or services. Students can explore the types of activity, product, or service that interest them and find related job titles.

• Focus2 - This self-guided career assessment software assesses Holland code work interests, career values, skills, MBTI personality, and leisure interests.
• Community Cultural Wealth - Review these resources to discover the skills and dispositions students bring from their families, communities of origin, cultures, and personal experiences that are strengths in the workforce.

• Résumé & Cover Letter Builder: SkillsFirst - This AI-feedback résumé builder helps students create keyword-optimized résumés. Students can submit résumés for AI review and for review from our team.

Interview Practice System: Big Interview - This AI-feedback interview practice system mimics real-life interviews. Students can submit practice interviews for AI review and email practice interviews to you for your review.

• Jobs, Internships & Networking: Handshake - This job & internship, career networking, career exploration, and career event site is exclusively for college students. Employers on Handshake want to hire Golden Eagles.
• Micro-Internships: Parker Dewey - Micro-internships are short-term, paid, freelance, professional projects.
• Job Application Tracker - This tool helps students organize their employment search. Students can share job tracking boards with our team for support.

• World Economic Forum - Reskilling Revolution - Gain clear, data-driven insight into emerging skills and shifting global workforce demands.
• NACE - Career Readiness - Explore the national framework defining the core competencies graduates need for successful career launch and long-term development.
• Credential Value Index (Burning Glass Institute - Navigate the crowded credential landscape with evidence-based insights into which certifications and programs deliver real labor-market value.
• Decision Skills in the Workforce (Burning Glass Institute) - See how AI-driven changes elevate decision-making as a critical skill—and where employer demand is strongest across industries.
• Data Science Is for Everyone (Burning Glass Institute & ExcelinEd) - Understand the growing demand for data science skills and its implications for curriculum, teaching, and workforce preparation.
• Skills-First Workforce Initiative (Burning Glass Institute) - Discover shared national skill profiles for high-impact occupations, supporting a common language for skills-based hiring and education. 

• LAEDC - LA County Industry Clusters Study (2024) - Access regional economic insights that highlight emerging industry clusters and opportunities shaping Los Angeles’s future workforce.
• California Jobs First - Los Angeles Collaborative - Explore an equity-centered regional planning initiative designed to ensure economic growth benefits all communities across Los Angeles.