Major & Career Exploration

 

Individual Career Counseling

Designing a career may seem overwhelming. We are inundated with information and options and knowing how to sort everything out becomes problematic. Developing a satisfying and rewarding career is a significant life challenge. Demystify the career selection process by working with your career counselor to successfully reach your career goals. The Career Development Process handout is designed to help students/alumni understand the career decision process. Based on the career development needs of our students, we offer the following assessments.

Steps of the Career Development Process

Identify your interests and skills. Knowing yourself is an important step in that process. The Career Services office utilizes the following assessments to help you explore your values, interests and abilities as they relate to careers and majors.

 

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FOCUS

A self-paced, online career and education planning tool for use by college students. It will enable you to self-assess your career relevant personal qualities and explore career fields and major areas of study that are most compatible with your assessment results. Students who use FOCUS make better decisions about their goals and plans and learn how to self-manage their careers.

Use FOCUS to help you - Choose or change your major and also to verify your preferences or early choice of a career field.

For more information on what the FOCUS assessment can do for you, see this presentation

Click here to download the power point (2007) presentation

You will need to contact the office to be registered in the system (717-872-3312) and to make an appointment to review your results with a Career Counselor.

 
 

Do What You Are: Personality Type and Career Choice Assessment . Based on personality type and how people interpret the world around them to make decisions. "Do What You Are" provides you with insights on how you view the world around you and how this view relates to career decisions. To access this program you must first meet with a career counselor.

Video: Choosing a Major (12 MB)

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How does a major fit into a career?

Gather Information: Researching occupations and majors is an important step in identifying careers and majors. Following are some online resources that will help you see how a major relates to occupations and careers:

Internships & Experiential Learning Opportunities

Internship experiences are an important part of your college experience. They give you the practical skills employers will be looking for at graduation. To find out how you can participate in an internship experience please visit the Office of Internships & Civic Engagement Services.