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Career assessments help students identify interests, skills, and values.
Career Services offers two distinct assessments, TypeFocus and Discover.
TypeFocus assesses your personality type and incorporates it into personalized reports that offer insight into the following 3 topics:
- What career choices fit with my personality?
- How can I get along with people better?
- What are my learning style strengths?
Discover is an online career guidance and information system from ACT (American College Testing).
| Career Decision-Making Model |
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Key Questions |
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| Learn About Yourself |
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- What do I like?
- What am I good at?
- What do I value about work?
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Take the three inventories:
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Interests
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Abilities
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Values
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| Learn Occupational Matches |
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- Which occupations may be a good fit for me?
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- Click on Inventories Summary/career areas/individual occupations and read about those in which you are interested
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Learn Suggested Majors
(per occupation)
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- What are my best subjects?
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- Click on "Training" to learn which major(s) could help you prepare for that occupation
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| Apply Knowledge |
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- Meet with career consultant to develop career action plan
- Meet with academic advisor to develop academic plan
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If you would like to discuss your results, call 205-934-4324 to make an appointment with a career consultant.
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