Welcome to our career blog...

The Career Key's mission is to help people make the best career, college major, and self-employed choices. In this career blog, we share practical tips about:

- Making science-based career decisions throughout your life,
- Choosing a college major, training, or instructional program,
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Choosing career clusters, fields or career pathways, and
- Deciding whether being self-employed is right for you.

The Career Key's Vice President, Juliet Wehr Jones, with input from Career Key author Dr. Lawrence K. Jones, discuss these topics with seriousness and a touch of humor.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Career Key Blog Featured on Career Digital List of Career Blogs

Thank you to Career Digital for inviting The Career Key Blog to join their rank of featured career blogs! Career Digital pulls together career and job search related news from the top career blogs. To try it out, you'll see in the righthand column of our blog a Career Digital button.  Click on it or on any of the topics listed and you can explore what they offer.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

New College Major-Personality List Promises Better Grades & College Retention

Career Key is the first to classify all current college majors in the U.S. and Canada according to Holland's six personality types. Because research (PDF) shows that choosing a college major matching your personality predicts grades earned, persistence, and graduation rate, creation of this list of college majors is an important advance for students and college retention in general.

To learn more, please read the latest Press Release at PRWeb.