Where Are You Going?
In college you find yourself. You make memories. You meet important people that shape your life. But I am sure we can all agree that the most quintessential reason a student heads off to college is to, eventually, start a career. College would become a lot less important if it didn't lead to anything. So, before we get too focused on the college process, let's take a look at the end game here. You might just find that knowing a bit about yourself makes finding the right college for you a whole lot easier.
Career Exploration
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World of WorkACT also produces a graphic to delve deeper into fields and careers including salaries, requirements, and related majors.
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Holland's CodesThe RIASEC test is a free and fast way to see how your personality relates to a variety of professions. Paper or Web
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What Can I Do With a Major In....?
University HQ website hosts the "Best College Degrees and Majors" page. This free educational resource helps students determine their best career path options. This comprehensive site covers not only a variety of majors but also talks about salaries and breaks down the process of earning a degree. If you are going to start in one place to begin learning about the journey of higher education, this would be a good one.
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The below websites have excellent exploration of the many things you can do with a major in a specific subject:
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Paid Resources
Incorporate the study of how you deal with others, solve problems, and take in information and understand your personality and how it helps you find the right path for you.
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Match careers with your aptitudes in this interactive tool to discover how you can do something that really works with your skills.
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It's all about the numbers and numbers don't lie. An examination of the above pictures show that the higher one's degree, the lower the unemployment rate for those people. Further more, the higher the degree, the higher the median weekly earnings (with the exception of professional degrees outperforming doctoral degrees in this area). In short, it pays to stay in school.
One of the biggest mistakes we make as counselors is looking at career development as its own component. By having a mind shift to career as an interrelated piece of the work we do, goal setting and skill development become commensurate with self-assessment, all contributing to the bigger idea of career. Knowing yourself and how you are going to get where you want to go are far more important than simply know what you want to do.
More Links and PagesFormal Assessments Informal assessments
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More on Holland's CodesFor a deeper dive into RIASEC and Holland's Codes, look here.
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