Frequently Asked Questions

Occupational Outlook and O-Net provide information on the project job growth and average salary on a number of different career areas. O-Net provides statistics on salary by national average as well as individual state's average.

What Can I do with This Major is a website that is designed to answer this very question. The website provides students information by major including common career areas, typical employers, and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities.

Career assessments ask you a variety of questions about your areas of interest, education, training, personality, life values, leisure preferences, and skills. Based on how you answer the questions, the assessment generates a list of possible career choices that might be a good match for you. NWC provides students three different career assessments tools Focus, Career Cruising and Kuder.

FolioTek is an Electronic Portfolio system that has been provided for 2 years to students from Title III. Students can use this program to showcase their coursework and skills. You can use word documents, video clips, recordings or any document you can save on your computer. Students can share their portfolio via an e-mail system to prospective employers or transfer colleges. Many transfer colleges will require an electronic portfolio of the student's work and skills as an admission requirement to get into the junior level of certain majors.