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Career Counseling Appointments

Counselors are available to help you think about how your interests might translate into a career. Be open to exploration! Call (617) 353-3590 for an appointment.

Career Exploration Group The CEG is a 5-week group workshop to help you identify your personality style, interests, skills and values as they might relate to career choice. The CEG also helps you develop a plan for career exploration. The CEG is given once each semester; dates will be listed in advance on our website calendar. To enroll in the group, contact Career Services at least one week prior to the starting date. A fee of $25.00 will be charged for career testing materials; tests should be completed prior to the first workshop. For more information, please call (617) 353-3590.

Career/Personality testing

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. 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.

The following assessments are offered by our Career Counselors:
  • MBTI (Myers-Briggs)
  • Strong Interest Inventory
  • CDM
  • "Skillscan"
  • Values card sort
  • Skills card sort
  • Typefocus (on-line)
In addition, BU students are able to use an on-line self-assessment instrument: Typefocus

Career Resource Library

The Career Resource Library (CRL) is part of Career Services. The CRL provides a reference service for the different collections which the library maintains, and referral service to other B.U. libraries and Boston area libraries. The CRL is open to all B.U. students, staff and alumni.

Information within the CRL includes books on:
  • Self-assessment and career development
  • Occupational exploration
  • Job search
  • Resume writing, cover letter writing, interviewing and networking
  • Regional U.S. and international employment
  • Salaries
  • Graduate school information
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