Self-Knowledge
Career counselors can help you recognize your interests, skills, and values, and help you set your career goals. Knowing yourself is the first step necessary in finding a satisfying career.
The Career Development Center offers standardized interest surveys including the Strong Interest Inventory and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
These assessments are administered and evaluated by a trained career counselor during your career counseling session. Interest surveys can help you focus on career fields, occupations, and work environments where you may find job satisfaction. They may confirm the career fields that you have been considering. They will not, however, tell you what you “should” be. Only you can determine that!
FOCUS
This tool helps you explore your strengths, interests, and skills as a first step to major and career decision-making.
How can I use FOCUS?
- Create your Focus2 account.
- Alumni: To obtain the user registration access code, email career.development@purchase.edu.
- Once you have the registration access code, go to the Student Log-in/Registration Page to create your account.
- You can log in at anytime to continue to take assessments, check your results, and explore and save majors and careers.
Once you have completed the assessments, be sure to make an appointment to meet with a career counselor to go over the results. Remember, no single assessment can give you the answer to your “what do I want to be” question. Career planning is a process!
Additional Resources
The following websites allow you to explore on your own. These sites provide a free mini-report and may offer more expanded reports for a fee.
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The Occupational Information Network
Learn about occupations, match your skills, and more. -
CareerOneStop
Skills, interests, and values assessments.. -
My Next Move
O*NET Interest Profiler.