California Career Resource Network (CalCRN)

Welcome!

Let us help you learn how to create a great career and become an effective career self-manager! You've heard it before. We live in a time of constant change. No where is this more evident than in jobs and work settings. The only way to be sure of finding and keeping work you like is to keep learning. These days, you have to invest in lifelong learning to stay competitive and in demand.

Whatever stage you are at in your career, there are plenty of career decisions ahead of you. The decisions you make about your career will directly affect your family, your finances, your health, your social life and leisure time and your overall lifestyle. No one else can make your career decisions for you. If you want it to work out well, you have to take charge and manage your own career. The skills to do this can be learned through career development programs. Some of the best career development programs in the world are available to you through this site.

What is career development?

Career development is a lifelong process of exploring, choosing, and implementing decisions about educational, work and life roles. It includes an individual's values about work, their beliefs about their own interests and abilities, their decisions about education, the ways they negotiate transitions into and out of work experiences and their unique interactions between work and other life roles. (Herr, 2004)

Developing Your Career Self-Management Skills

Using the resources found in this web site will help you develop the personal, social, educational, and career self-management skills to develop and maintain a fulfilling life/career. We hope you enjoy the journey.