We offer a variety of easy to complete assessment tools designed to help you explore career opportunities that align with your personal design, talents, preferences.
Before diving in, make an appointment with the Center for Personal and Professional Development for help finding the right tool for your needs and the steps needed to complete them. Email us for an appointment at [email protected].
On online workshop designed to help you explore and develop your personal mission and goals while in college. Click here to start the online module
Gallup’s Strengths Finder Assessment is designed to affirm a students’ talents and strengths and offer guidance on how to use these to make decisions about their future. This assessment provides students with a highly researched talent profile to use as a guide for aligning their major and career options with their personal desires and design. Interested students should make an appointment with career center staff to explore this option.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a career resource offering information on hundreds of occupations that provide the majority of jobs in the United States. Each occupational profile describes the typical duties performed by the occupation, the work environment of that occupation, the typical education and training needed to enter the occupation, the median pay for workers in the occupation, and the job outlook for the next 10 years for that occupation. Each profile is in a standard format that makes it easy to compare.
NCcareers.org provides valuable resources and assessments that can assist you in exploring career interests and specific career skills including detailed information on occupational ratings, job duties, education/ training, wages, employment outlook, and more.
Take the O-Net Interest Profiler Assessment to help identify the types of work activities that most interest you. From there you can browse occupations that match your career interests.
CareerOneStop is the flagship career, training, and job search website for the U.S. Department of Labor. The website provides students with a variety of free online tools, career assessments, information and resources.
Big Interview is not only a great way to practice your interview skills, it also provides tons of video content on possible careers and skill development for specific industries.
