As with choosing a major, the first step in choosing a career is to know yourself; your skills and interests, your values and motivations, your likes and dislikes, your temperament and your goals.
Our office can help you with this. You can meet with a career counselor, take career inventories, and participate in a Career Exploration Group.
We also have an on-line resource, TypeFocus,
which can assist you with thinking about how to find careers that
go with who you are.
The first thing to understand about career and personality tests is
that they don’t have all the answers. No test can tell you what you
“should be” or “should do” or even necessarily what you’d be good
at doing. Tests can be extremely useful, however, in helping you sort
out a direction, identify your skills, interests, and values, or understand
why you sometimes think and feel the way you do.
In addition to TypeFocus,
an on-line self-assessment instrument, the following assessments are
offered by our Career Counselors:
- MBTI (Myers-Briggs)
- Strong Interest Inventory
- CDM
- "Skillscan"
- Values card sort
- Skills card sort
Please read the first section under “Choosing
Majors” for more information on this step.
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