by Career planning is about finding harmony between who you are, and an environment that fits your personality. Understanding your values, interests, skills and strengths is the first step toward choosing an eventual career path. This will help you build a strong foundation for your college experience.
Discovering self-awareness is a lifelong process. Just as reading about diet and exercise won’t improve your health; reading about self-awareness won’t help you find a career path. Take time to explore your answers to the following self-assessment questions:
- Who am I?
- What are my intellectual interests?
- What do I have to offer an employer?
- What do I want from a job?
- What are my strengths? How do I develop them? How do I use them?
Exploring these questions through assessment tools will help you discover more about yourself and guide you to academic majors and careers most appropriate for you. A little time spent now to increase your knowledge of yourself, as well as potential career matches, can save you from a lot of heartache in the future.
Consider taking the Focus 2 self-assessment before talking to your advisor. Use the access code apache when prompted to do so. Begin by taking the Career Planning Readiness and Academic Strengths assessments. Then, complete the Personality, Work Interests, Skills, and Values assessments.
Review your results under Combined Assessments and begin exploring matching careers. Contact the Career Planning office to help you interpret your results and research matching careers.
The Career Planning Office is located in the White Administrative Services Center. Our free services include individual career planning, personality and interest assessments, career resources and literature, and an employment job board (Apache Jobs, collegecentral.com/tjc/).
