Career Assessment

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Professional Education Classes - Career Management

Take time out to discover the career options that suit your style! Career Assessment offers a combination of career testing and small group activities that help you focus on your career profile. You'll take the COPS, an interest inventory, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the most popular personality style assessment. We'll also cover career search strategies, career research resources, decision-making and goal setting.

Instructor: Linda Robinson, MEd
Note: new date and/or time
2 session(s): Sat: Apr 17-24 / 9:00 am-1:00 pm
Registration fee: $195 CEUs: 0.8

After this class, you will be able to

Describe the steps of career exploration and how to use them in career planning
Prioritize important life values to determine which five are most important now
Describe past accomplishments to help determine future career options
State your personality style and create a list of five career options that would be best suited to that style
List interest patterns and develop a list of seven career options for further research
Learn the online information resources to help research career information, such as the fastest growing and highest paying careers
Utilize a decision matrix to focus and narrow potential career options
Create an action plan that will outline at least three “next steps” and their deadlines

What will be covered

Introduction

Understand the Career Exploration Process

Personality or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment
Understanding the results of the assessment
Generating career options compatible with the MBTI

Interests – The Career Occupational Profile System COPS
The Career Occupational Profile System
Understanding the results of COPS
Generating career options compatible with COPS

Next Steps
Exploring research resources on line and the process of informational interviews
Discover the Decision Matrix
Goal Setting
Goal Setting and how to apply it to a career search

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Comments from previous students

"Enthusiastic and compelling. She boosted my confidence in job seeking immensely!"

"Excellent! Great command of material and appreciate her genuine interest in helping us."