Career Assessments

Career assessments heighten self-understanding and assist with career decision-making. They help students identify unique interests, skills, abilities, and personality characteristics.

The following model provides phases to help students understand how personality traits and skills intersect with career and major choices, empowering them to make more informed career decisions.

Career Services offers Discover, an online career guidance and information system from ACT.

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Career Decision-Making Model

Phases	Key Questions	Steps
Learn About Yourself	What do I like? What am I good at? What do I value about work?	Take the three inventories: Interests Abilities Values

Learn Occupational Matches	Which occupations may be a good fit for me?	Click on Inventories Summary/career areas/individual occupations and read about those in which you are interested.

Learn Suggested Majors (per occupation)	What do I like to study? What are my best subjects?	Click on "Training" to learn which major(s) could help you prepare for that occupation.

Apply Knowledge	How do I make decisions? How do I prepare?	Meet with career counselor to develop career action plan Meet with academic advisor to develop academic plan

If you would like to discuss your results,
call 205-934-4324 to make an appointment with a career counselor.