Career Guide

It’s difficult to find the career that’s right for you. California College Search provides information related to various occupations that will make your search for the perfect career easier. Listed below are various career fields and related jobs. Click on the titles that interest you to get more information.

Business / Management

• Accountants and auditors
• Administrative services and facility managers
• Advertising, marketing and public relations managers
• Budget analysts
• Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners and investigators
• Computer and information systems managers
• Construction managers
• Cost estimators
• Education administrators
• Engineering and natural sciences managers
• Farmers, ranchers and agricultural managers
• Financial analysts and personal financial advisors
• Financial managers
• Food service managers
• Funeral directors
• Human resources, training and labor relations managers and specialists
• Industrial production managers
• Insurance underwriters
• Loan counselors and officers
• Lodging managers
• Management analysts
• Medical and health services managers
• Property, real estate and community association managers
• Purchasing managers, buyers and purchasing agents
• Tax examiners, collectors and revenue agents
• Top executives

Professional

• Architects, surveyors, and cartographers
• Architects, except landscape and naval
• Landscape architects
• Surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists and surveying technicians
• Drafters and engineering technicians
• Drafters
• Engineering technicians
• Engineers
• Aerospace engineers
• Agricultural engineers
• Biomedical engineers
• Chemical engineers
• Civil engineers
• Computer hardware engineers
• Electrical and electronics engineers, except computer
• Environmental engineers
• Industrial engineers, including health and safety
  
• Materials engineers
• Mechanical engineers
  
• Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
• Nuclear engineers
• Petroleum engineers
• Arts and design
• Artists and related workers
• Designers
• Entertainers and performers, sports and related occupations
• Actors, producers and directors
• Athletes, coaches, umpires and related workers
• Dancers and choreographers
• Musicians, singers and related workers
• Media and communications-related occupations
• Announcers
• Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators
• News analysts, reporters and correspondents
• Photographers
  
• Public relations specialists
  
• Television, video, motion picture camera operators and editors
  
• Writers and editors
  
• Community and social services occupations
• Clergy
  
• Protestant ministers
  
• Rabbis
  
• Roman Catholic priests
  
• Counselors
  
• Probational officers and correctional treatment specialists
  
• Social and human service assistants
  
• Social workers
  
• Computer and mathematical occupations
• Actuaries
  
• Computer programmers
  
• Computer software engineers
  
• Computer support specialists and systems administrators
  
• Mathematicians
  
• Operations research analysts
  
• Statisticians
  
• Systems analysts, computer scientists and database administrators
  
• Education, training, library, and museum occupations
• Archivists, curators and museum technicians
  
• Instructional coordinators
  
• Librarians
  
• Library technicians
  
• Teacher assistants
  
• Teachers—adult literacy and remedial and self-enrichment education
  
• Teachers—postsecondary
  
• Teachers—preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle and secondary
  
• Teachers—special education
  
• Legal
• Court reporters
  
• Judges, magistrates and other judicial workers
  
• Lawyers
  
• Paralegals and legal assistants
  
• Life scientists
• Agricultural and food scientists
  
• Biological and medical scientists
  
• Conservation scientists and foresters
  
• Physical scientists
• Atmospheric scientists
  
• Chemists and materials scientists
  
• Environmental scientists and geoscientists
  
• Physicists and astronomers
  
• Science technicians
  
• Social scientists and related occupations
  • Economists and market and survey researchers
    
  • Psychologists
    
  • Urban and regional planners
    
  • Social scientists, other
    
• Health diagnosing and treating occupations
  • Chiropractors
    
  • Dentists
    
  • Dietitians and nutritionists
    
  • Occupational therapists
    
  • Optometrists
    
  • Pharmacists
    
  • Physical therapists
    
  • Physician assistants
    
  • Physicians and surgeons
    
  • Podiatrists
    
  • Recreational therapists
    
  • Registered nurses
    
  • Respiratory therapists
    
  • Speech-language pathologists and audiologists
    
  • Veterinarians
    
• Health technologists and technicians
  • Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
    
  • Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
    
  • Dental hygienists
    
  • Diagnostic medical sonographers
    
  • Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
    
  • Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
    
  • Medical records and health information technicians
    
  • Nuclear medicine technologists
    
  • Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians
    
  • Opticians, dispensing
    
  • Pharmacy technicians
    
  • Radiologic technologists and technicians
    
  • Surgical technologists
    

Service Related

• Building and grounds clearing and maintenance occupations
• Building cleaning workers
  
• Grounds maintenance workers
  
• Pest control workers
  
• Food preparation and serving related occupations
• Chefs, cooks and food preparation workers
  
• Food and beverage serving and related workers
  
• Healthcare support occupations
• Dental assistants
  
• Medical assistants
  
• Medical transcriptionists
  
• Nursing, psychiatric and home health aides
  
• Occupational therapist assistants and aides
  
• Pharmacy aides
  
• Physical therapist assistants and aides
  
• Personal care and service occupations
• Animal care and service workers
  
• Barbers, cosmetologists and other personal appearance workers
  
• Childcare workers
  
• Flight attendants
  
• Gaming services occupations
  
• Personal and home care aides
  
• Recreation and fitness workers
  
• Protective service occupations
• Correctional officers
  
• Firefighting occupations
  
• Police and detectives
  
• Private detectives and investigators
  
• Security guards and gaming surveillance officers
  

Sales

• Cashiers
  
• Counter and rental clerks
  
• Demonstrators, product promoters and models
  
• Insurance sales agents
  
• Real estate brokers and sales agents
  
• Retail salespersons
  
• Sales engineers
  
• Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing
  
• Sales worker supervisors
  
• Securities, commodities and financial services sales agents
  
• Travel agents
  

Administrative

• Communications equipment operators
  
• Computer operators
  
• Data entry and information processing workers
  
• Desktop publishers
  
• Financial clerks
  
  • Bill and account collectors
    
  • Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
    
  • Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks
    
  • Gaming cage workers
    
  • Payroll and timekeeping clerks
    
  • Procurement clerks
    
  • Tellers
    
• Information and record clerks
  
  • Brokerage clerks
    
  • Credit authorizers, checkers and clerks
    
  • Customer service representatives
    
  • File clerks
    
  • Hotel, motel and resort desk clerks
    
  • Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
    
  • Interviewers
    
  • Library assistants, clerical
    
  • Order clerks
    
  • Receptionists and information clerks
    
  • Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
    
• Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing occupations, except postal workers
  
  • Cargo and freight agents
    
  • Couriers and messengers
    
  • Dispatchers
    
  • Meter readers, utilities
    
  • Production, planning and expediting clerks
    
  • Shipping, receiving and traffic clerks
    
  • Stock clerks and order fillers
    
  • Weighers, measurers, checkers and samplers, recordkeeping
    
• Office and administrative support worker supervisors and managers
  
• Office clerks, general
  
• Postal Service workers
  
• Secretaries and administrative assistants
  

Agricultural

• Agricultural workers
  
• Fishers and fishing vessel operators
  
• Forest, conservation and logging workers
  

Construction

• Boilermakers
  
• Brickmasons, blockmasons and stonemasons
  
• Carpenters
  
• Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers
  
• Cement masons, concrete finishers, segmental pavers and terrazzo workers
  
• Construction and building inspectors
  
• Construction equipment operators
  
• Construction laborers
  
• Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers and tapers
  
• Electricians
  
• Elevator installers and repairers
  
• Glaziers
  
• Hazardous materials removal workers
  
• Insulation workers
  
• Painters and paperhangers
  
• Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters
  
• Plasterers and stucco masons
  
• Roofers
  
• Sheet metal workers
  
• Structural and reinforcing iron and metal workers
  

Installation, Maintenance, and Repair

• Electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers
• Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
  
• Electrical and electronics installers and repairers
  
• Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
  
• Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers
  
• Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers
• Aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and service technicians
  
• Automotive body and related repairers
  
• Automotive service technicians and mechanics
  
• Diesel service technicians and mechanics
  
• Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics
  
• Small engine mechanics
  
• Other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations
• Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
  
• Heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
  
• Home appliance repairers
  
• Industrial machinery installation, repair and maintenance workers
  
• Line installers and repairers
  
• Precision instrument and equipment repairers
  

Production

• Assemblers and fabricators
  
• Food processing occupations
  
• Metal workers and plastic workers
• Computer control programmers and operators
  
• Machinists
  
• Machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic
  
• Tool and die makers
  
• Welding, soldering and brazing workers
  
• Plant and system operators
• Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers
  
• Stationary engineers and boiler operators
  
• Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
  
• Printing occupations
• Bookbinders and bindery workers
  
• Prepress technicians and workers
  
• Printing machine operators
  
• Textile, apparel and furnishings occupations
  
• Woodworkers
  
• Other production occupations
• Dental laboratory technicians
  
• Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers and weighers
  
• Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
  
• Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
  
• Painting and coating workers, except construction and maintenance
  
• Photographic process workers and processing machine operators
  
• Semiconductor processors
  

Trucking / Transportation

• Air transportation occupations
• Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
  
• Air traffic controllers
  
• Material moving occupations
  
• Motor vehicle operators
• Busdrivers
  
• Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
  
• Truckdrivers and driver/sales workers
  
• Rail transportation occupations
  
• Water transportation occupations