Steps for Career Planning

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Career Counseling
Self-Assessment
  • Self Assessment
    University of Waterloo
  • Career Assessment Tests
    Commonwealth of Virginia
  • Self Assessment Resources
    The Riley Guide
  • Skills Search
    O*net OnLine
  • Transferable Skills Survey
    University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Rio Salado Counseling Services
  • Career and Life Values
    “The relationship between students' values and daily choices is discussed in this video, which also connects values to career decisions. Students identify some of their key values and consider how personal background may have shaped them.”
  • Personality and Interests Career Video
    “This video demonstrates the connections between personality, interests, and work preferences. Students get in touch with their primary interest patterns and aspects of their personality through various exercises.”
  • The Right Job for Your Personality Career Video
    “This program shows viewers how to select a rewarding and satisfying career by engaging in a reflective self-assessment process-a process designed to help them gain insights into themselves by looking at different aspects of their lives including their interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle. Shows how to identify and organize a variety of personal information into a form that's optimal for making informed career decisions!”
  • Self-Knowledge and Beliefs Career Video
    “This video presents simple methods for expanding self-awareness, and explores links between beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Students practice identifying personal beliefs about success, and begin to develop their Personal Career Profile.”
  • What Employers Want: Skills and Attitudes Career Video
    “Attitudes and characteristics essential for success are explored in this video. It shows students how to recognize their transferable skills and evaluate work readiness.”
  • Where Are You Now? Career Video
    ‘The concept of life roles is introduced in this video, as well as the importance of support. Students evaluate their roles-work, family, leisure, self-improvement, and community-and begin to identify key people in their personal support system.”
Occupational Information
College/ University Guides
Decision Making/Goal Setting
  • Decision-Making
    Decision-making elements, career objectives, personal objectives, lifelong learning and goal setting.
  • Decision Making
    University of California-Berkley
  • What can I do with my Major?
    University of Washington
  • What Can I do with my Major?
    University of Maryland
  • 7 Step Decision Making Model
    Colorado College
  • Career Exploration Links
    University of Berkley
  • Asia One Business
    Managing your career is like riding a bicycle
  • Goal Setting
    University of South Wales
  • Goal Setting Tips
    UmyGoals.com
  • Developing Career Goals
    Cornell University
  • Career Evaluation Career Video
    “This program illustrates how to relate interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle to specific occupations in the world of work. Based on the common-sense notion that you do best at what you really like to do, this video shows viewers how to find an occupation with job requirements that closely match their interests. Nothing predicts high workplace satisfaction like a close match between job duties and the employee-to-be!”
  • Decision-Making Strategies Career Video
    “This video looks at rational-linear and intuitive decision-making techniques. Personal decision-making style is featured, showing how a person's values, willingness to take risks, and ability to be objective all influence the decision-making process.”
  • Evaluating Career Options Career Video
    “This video illustrates how to evaluate career options based on the Three C's: content, conditions, and compensation. It expands on the Personal Career Profile and explains how to use information gathered from occupational research.”
  • Researching Career Options: New Technologies and Current Techniques Career Video
    “This video focuses on finding career options using both print and electronic sources of occupational information. Using key information categories, students develop approaches that will lead to strong and thorough research efforts.”
  • The Right Job for Your Personality Career Video
    “This program shows viewers how to select a rewarding and satisfying career by engaging in a reflective self-assessment process-a process designed to help them gain insights into themselves by looking at different aspects of their lives including their interests, skills, education, training, values, and lifestyle. Shows how to identify and organize a variety of personal information into a form that's optimal for making informed career decisions!”
  • Goal-Setting and Action-Planning Career Video
    “This video helps students establish criteria for attainable goals and objectives, and shows them how to evaluate goals on the basis of these criteria. Students begin to draft their own goal lists and....
  • Researching Career Options: New Technologies and Current Techniques Career Video
    “This video focuses on finding career options using both print and electronic sources of occupational information. Using key information categories, students develop approaches that will lead to strong and thorough research efforts.”
Creating Your Career Path
Academic Advisement
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