Self assessment inventories
Career self assessment inventories are used as tools to help you identify your skills, values and interests as they relate to academic and career exploration.

The Strong Interest and Skills Confidence Inventory will help you understand how your interests relate to the world of work and college majors and is available online once you meet with a Career Services staff member. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) will help you understand how your personality preferences relate to the world of work.

If you are interested in taking either of these inventories, contact Career Services to set up an appointment with a counselor who will help you determine the use of these resources in your career and academic planning. This process is done online with a follow-up appointment for a personal interpretation with a counselor. The inventories are offered to students free of charge.

FOCUS
Having trouble deciding on a major? Unclear about what occupations to consider with your college major? Are others offering you career advice that doesn't seem to fit? Unsure about which career path to pursue after college? Looking for information about a particular occupation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you would be well advised to check out FOCUS.

FOCUS is an interactive career and educational planning system that can help you develop an accurate understanding of your personal strengths, needs and preferences. Based on sound research with a history dating back to the 1960s, FOCUS is the choice of over 1,500 career counseling centers nationwide.

FOCUS will help you develop a good understanding of how your interests, values, skills, educational preferences and personality relate to one another, and how they get tied together into the world of work. With FOCUS you will:

• Analyze your career planning status.
• Assess your interests, skills, work values, personality and preferences.
• Discover and explore occupations, career paths and education programs compatible with your personal attributes.
• Map out your career and educational goals, action plans, personal development and training needs.

Through online assessments, FOCUS will create a profile of your interests, skills, values, personality, educational preferences and leisure activities. FOCUS will then identify occupations that match each of these aspects of your profile, and provide you the opportunity to explore those that appeal to you. You'll learn about the expected earnings at both the national and state level, job outlook, duties, educational programs, courses, degrees and certificates required, needed skills, specific working conditions and much more! Login or register for FOCUS now.