Spend time researching future career opportunities to help decide what you want out of college. Then evaluate your aptitude skills for different career disciplines. Assessing your personality, interests, and skills now will help later when it's time to opting for a career. Find out what jobs are going to be hot and what's not. This will help you decide whether to go to college, vocational school or jump right into your career. You junior year is the best time to research what you want to do after graduating from high school.

Along with setting the career make your grades, grades count for admission to college. Colleges are interested in your class rank and grade point average (GPA). Making the honor roll at your high school is always a good move, but if you rank at the top of your class and didn't take tough courses, colleges will notice.

Your Career Goal search must accomplish the following results:

• Self-assessment
• Career or Occupation research