Today I gave a workshop on using personality testing in the college search process. The site we used:
Shanghai American School Guidance website.
Some great books on personality profiles (some college or career specific):

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there are several great sites to help you understand the opportunities that exist after you graduate from college regardless of what you study.

Some of my favorites include:
UC Berkeley which includes data collected from graduate surveys.
UNC Wilmingdon’s listing of majors contains robust links into professional associations.
Quintessential careers includes a well organized presentation of clustser:
What Can [...]

The Wall Street Journal is running a series featuring recent college gradautes reflecting on their recent four years and life after university. Some entered bound a determined to follow liberal passions only to give into the job making machine:
Four years and one $160,000 piece of paper later, I’ve gravitated away from that “pragmatism be damned” [...]

Many parents fret about their kids musical or artistic obsessions, complaining that they cannot possible make a living, that the job is not stable, has no future. Yet, thousands of artist prove them wrong every year. Yet, most artists are also business people, entrepreneurs to be exact. Today I listened to a fabulous podast from [...]

Many international students already speak two or three or more languages. Perhaps you should prusue it to a higher level, making it one of your majors. Need convincing? (or perhaps your parents do). Here are just three random reasons (from a list of 700 well researched reasons):
1) High level plurilinguals as a group do better than [...]

id you know that:

1.25 million Americans work in the visual arts.
One in 111 jobs is in art and design.
The economic impact of art and design exceeds that of sports worldwide.
The creative industries are an estimated $30 billion export annually.
Jobs in design have increased 43% in the past ten years.
Yearly sales of art reach an estimated [...]

Why not?
It seems like everyone has China on the mind–what with 10% growth, the Olympics, the longest subway lines in the world and now the World’s expo, not to mention, food, pandas, walls and more. I have often beedasked about earning a degree in English in China, but honestly have had little luck finding more [...]

Here is a list I stumbled on for schools with great pre-med programs:

#  Amherst College  (Amherst, MA)
# Bates College (Lewiston, ME) (6 scholarships available)
# Bates College (Lewiston, ME) (6 scholarships available)
# Brown University (Providence, RI) (8 scholarships available)
# Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA) (12 scholarships available)
# Carleton College (Northfield, MN) (9 scholarships available)
# Colgate University (Hamilton, [...]

Taylor Mali has a goal to create 1000 teachers through poetry and perseverance. He spoke to my students yesterday and I thought I would share one of his landmark poems with you about teachers. The words or below, but Taylor is worth hearing:

What Teachers Make, or
Objection Overruled, or
If things don’t work out, you can always [...]

GamePro offers up a  listing of best colleges to study Video Game Design:

1
University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Degrees offered: Major/Minor
Number of students enrolled: 16,283
Student/Faculty ratio: 9:1
Annual tuition: $38,570
The Interactive Media Division of USC has graduated some pretty big names in the indie gaming scene. Jenova Chen of thatgamecompany (flOw), Matt [...]