Career Guide: Career Exploration

Whether you are a student, a prospective student, an employer or a community partner, the Career Services Team at HACC wants to help you. As a team, our primary function is to support our students' professional growth and development toward their career goals; however, we also work hard to connect the students, businesses and community partners.

HACC’s Career Coach, helps students set goals, plan for the future and take early steps toward developing themselves professionally. Students can research careers, learn what jobs are in demand in South Central Pennsylvania, see how occupations tie into specific majors at HACC, and begin to map out the path toward your future career.

College Central Network (CCN) is HACC’s Career Services Platform and is available to students, alumni and employers. Internships, volunteer, experiential learning opportunities, part-time, seasonal, full-time, and on-campus employment positions are posted there. Valuable resources like the Career Mentoring Network, webinars, podcasts, an e-portfolio builder, and other career services tools are available for you to use on CCN. HACC career events and announcements from Career Services are centrally located on your landing page for you! If you have yet to activate your CCN account please join me for the workshop How to Activate YOUR CCN account! offered every semester.

The Interest Profiler will help you determine what careers match your interests.

A powerful 70 question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type.

While some of the information is specific to this college, there are a lot of great resources for the general public on choosing a career.

Facts about work responsibilities, training, and education required by various occupations. Includes earnings, job prospects, working conditions and more.

The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations.

Your source for career exploration, training & jobs.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Watch these short videos from the library's "Films on Demand" database to help you explore various careers.

Job shadow from the comfort of your own home! View short videos of hundreds of employees and professionals talking about the daily tasks of their jobs to give you a look into what they really do.