Kezia Endsley - Marketing Professionals: A Practical Career Guide

Kezia Endsley is an editor and author from Indianapolis, Indiana. In addition to editing technical publications and writing books for teens, she enjoys running and triathlons, traveling, reading, and spending time with her family and many pets.

If you are looking for more information about anything you read in this book, the resources gathered here can be a great jumping-off point. Try these resources as a starting point on your journey toward finding a great career!

Fiske, Edward. Fiske Guide to Colleges. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2018.

Muchnick, Justin Ross. Teens Guide to College & Career Planning, 12th ed. Lawrenceville, NJ: Petersons, 2015.

Princeton Review. The Best 382 Colleges, 2018 Edition: Everything You Need to Make the Right College Choice. New York: Princeton Review, 2018.

American Gap Year Association

www.gapyearassociation.org

The American Gap Year Associations mission is making transformative gap years an accessible option for all high school graduates. A gap year is a year taken between high school and college to travel, teach, work, volunteer, generally mature, and otherwise experience the world. Their website has lots of advice and resources for anyone considering taking a gap year.

American Indian College Fund

https://collegefund.org

This organization provides scholarships and college information for Native American students at any of the thirty-three accredited tribal colleges and universities in the United States.

American Marketing Association

www.ama.org

The tag line of the American Marketing Association is your home for marketing career advice, trends and insights. The site includes information about jobs and training in your area, certifications, and trending news and the latest information related to marketing careers, and is a good place to make connections with other marketing professionals.

The Balance

www.thebalance.com

This site is all about managing money and finances, but also has a large section called Your Career, which provides advice for writing rsums and cover letters, interviewing, and more. Search the site for teens and you can find teen-specific advice and tips.

Cappex

www.cappex.com

Cappex is a free website where you can find out about colleges and merit aid scholarships.

The College Entrance Examination Board

www.collegeboard.org

The College Entrance Examination Board tracks and summarizes financial data from colleges and universities all over the United States. This great, well-organized site can be your one-stop shop for all things college research. It contains lots of advice and information about taking and doing well on the SAT and ACT, many articles on college planning, a robust college search feature, a scholarship search feature, and a major and career search area. You can type your career of interest (for example, digital advertising) into the search box and get back a full page that describes the career; gives advice on how to prepare, where to get experience, and how to pay for it; describes the characteristics you should have to excel in this career; lists helpful classes to take while in high school, and provides lots of links for more information.

College Grad Career Profiles

www.collegegrad.com/careers

Although this site is primarily geared toward college graduates, the careers profiles area, indicated above, has a list of links to nearly every career you could ever think of. A single click takes you to a very detailed, helpful section that describes the job in detail, explains the educational requirements, includes links to good colleges that offer this career and to actual open jobs and internships, describes the licensing requirements (if any), lists salaries, and much more.

Gates Millennium Scholars

https://gmsp.org

This organization provides scholarships to reduce barriers to college for African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American, and Hispanic American students regardless of major.

GoCollege

www.gocollege.com

Calling itself the number one college-bound website on the internet, GoCollege provides lots of good tips and information about getting money and scholarships for college and getting the most out of your college education. This site also includes a good section on how scholarships in general work.

Go Overseas

www.gooverseas.com

Go Overseas claims to be your guide to more than fourteen thousand study and teach abroad programs that will change how you see the world. The site also includes information about high school abroad programs, and gap year opportunities, and includes community reviews and information about finding programs specific to your interests.

Khan Academy

www.khanacademy.org

The Khan Academy website is an impressive collection of articles, courses, and videos about many educational topics in math, science, and the humanities. You can search any topic or subject (by subject matter and grade), and read lessons, take courses, and watch videos to learn all about it. The site includes test prep information for the SAT, ACT, AP, GMAT, and other standardized tests. There is also a College Admissions tab with lots of good articles and information, provided in the approachable Khan style.

Live Career Website

www.livecareer.com

This site has an impressive number of resources directed toward teens for writing rsums and cover letters, as well as interviewing.

Mapping Your Future

www.mappingyourfuture.org

This site helps young people figure out what they want to do and maps out how to reach career goals. Includes helpful tips on rsum writing, job hunting, job interviewing, and more.

Monster.com

www.monster.com

Monster.com is perhaps the most well-known and certainly one of the largest employment websites in the United States. You fill in a couple of search boxes and away you go. You can sort by job title, of course, as well as by company name, location, salary range, experience range, and much more. The site also includes information about career fairs, advice on rsums and interviewing, and more.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

www.bls.gov/ooh

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics produces this website, which offers lots of relevant and updated information about various careers, including average salaries, how to work in the industry, the job market outlook, typical work environments, and what workers do on the job. See www.bls.gov/emp/ for a full list of employment projections.

Petersons College Prep

www.petersons.com

In addition to lots of information about preparing for the ACT and SAT and easily searchable information about scholarships nationwide, the Petersons site includes a comprehensive search feature for universities and schools based on location, major, name, and more.

Study.com

www.study.com

Similar to Khan Academy, Study.com allows you to search any topic or subject and read lessons, take courses, and watch videos to learn all about it. The site includes a good collection of information about the digital communications professions.

TeenLife: College Preparation

www.teenlife.com

This site calls itself the leading source for college preparation and includes lots of information about summer programs, gap year programs, community service, and more. Promoting the belief that spending time out in the world outside of the classroom can help students develop important life skills, this site contains lots of links to volunteer and summer programs.