Step 1: Self-Assessment (Know Yourself)
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. Call us today at 617-353-3590 to schedule an appointment with a career counselor.
Career Assessment | Career Exploration Group
Career Assessment
The first thing to understand about career and personality assessments is that they don’t have all the answers. No assessment can tell you what you should be or should do or even necessarily what you’d be good at doing. Assessments can be extremely useful, however, in helping you sort out a direction; identify your skills, interests, and values; and even 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 (Career Decision-Making System)
- Skillscan
- Values card sort
- Skills card sort
Career Exploration Group (CEG)
The CEG is a 5-week, in-depth group workshop. Led by two of our counselors, the CEG enables students to learn more about their own personal styles and work preferences, the wide variety of options available in the world of work, and techniques for making and implementing career and job-search plans. There is a one-time materials fee. The CEG is held once per semester. Call 617-353-3590 for information on the next available group.