Career Exploration

Career Services offers a free service to students called Career LiftOff. This is a computerized interest inventory that also measures values and abilities. When completed, you will receive a print-out of your results – the first step in exploring possibilities of future majors. Also included, is a list of areas of interest based on your scores and job descriptions that will assist in decision making within those majors.

Career Services also has a resource area – check it out! You’ll find books to help you further your career exploration such as:

• Activities Manual for Taking Charge of Your Career Decision, Robert D. Look
• Career Guide, Gary Lynn Harr
• Career Pattern: A Kaleidoscope of Possibilities, Harris-Truck, Price & Robertson
• Career Trek, Troy R. Nielson
• Coming Alive From Nine to Five: The Career Search Handbook, Betty Michelozzi
• Discover What Your Best At, Barry and Linda Gale
• How to Choose the Right Career, Louise Srank
• Keys to Career Success, Carter, Ozee & Bollinger
• VGM’s Careers Checklists: 89 Proven checklists to help you plan your career and get great jobs, Arlene Hirsh

There are also many books that will help you in the career exploration process organized by interest:

• Careers for Animal Lovers, Louise Miller
• Careers for Caring People, Adrian Paradis
• Careers for Culture Lovers, Erbert & Gisler
• Careers for Health Nuts, Blyther Camenson
• Careers for Sports Nuts, Ray Heitzmann

And organized by major:

• Great Jobs for Accounting Majors, DeGalan & Lambert
• As well as for Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Foreign Language, Geology, History, Liberal Arts, Math, Music, Political Science, and Theatre Majors.

The above is just a sampling of what is available for you to review.