Career Planning Exploration

Career Services works collaboratively with academic divisions, departments, individual faculty members, student services, and other relevant constituencies of the university to enhance a student’s career development. Students work with a career counselor to explore their values, abilities, interests and personality through the use of the following activities and career assessments:

Occupational Outlook Handbook TRY NOW
is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

What Can I Do With This Major? OPEN MAJORS PROGRAM
is a computer program that assists students in researching occupations they can pursue with various majors.

Strong Interest Inventory
is an instrument designed to help an individual identify areas of career interest and then identify occupations that best fit these interests.

Myers Briggs (MBTI)
is a personality assessment. Responses to series of questions are assessed to determine what preferences for certain personality characteristics or temperaments individuals may have. The occupations of individuals with similar personality types who enjoy their jobs are explored to determine potential career options.

University 150 Career Exploration Class
is designed to introduce students to career and life planning theories and concepts and assists in applying these principles to their own lives. The class uses a variety of techniques to accomplish this, including experiential exercises and activities, small group discussions, guest speakers, written exercises, reading, and lectures.

Job Shadowing
is when students spend time in a real-life work setting in the community observing what it would be like to work in that field. This allows students to see and participate in actual job duties to determine if they would like certain types of work.