Are you confused on your career path? If so the RWC Career Services Office can help. The Office uses four indicators to help students make decisions about their career goals. These indicators will provide you with information about yourself in four basic areas: Interests, Values, Personality, and Competencies.
The purpose of this testing is to help you develop greater understanding of your own personal make-up so that you can better evaluate your career options.
Testing is not designed to provide specific answers for your personal growth or career direction; rather, it should generate new questions and options for your consideration. It will give you more information about yourself and help you organize your thoughts in such a way that making an effective career decision will become possible.
All testing is preceded by a planning session. Interpretations are given through personal counseling. The charge is $40.
Other tests, including Discover and the Personality Mosaic, are also available.
The Office also offers self-awareness indicators. For example, the Strong Interest Inventory has been designed to help you identify your interests and see their relationship to various career fields. The results will indicate how your responses compare with responses made to the same questions by professionals in various occupational fields.
The Work Values Inventory helps you to identify your work and life values, recognizing those that are most important to you. This will help you understand the needs you expect to be satisfied through your work experience.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator provides you with a framework to help you understand your own behavior. It offers information about why you feel more comfortable with certain situations and people. It will help you understand your preferences in relating to the world of people or ideas, your perceptions through sensing or intuition, your decision-making skills, and the way you deal with the world. This information will help you clarify your career preferences and identify the characteristics of a more satisfying work environment.
The Self-Directed Search was developed to help you relate your personal strengths to various occupational options. Through this instrument you will have a chance to identify various activities that interest you and skills in which you already have competency to see how they relate to various occupational possibilities.
Please note: Career interest testing is administered to give you more information to enable you to make the best possible decision regarding your career. Testing, however, does not make those decisions for you. The responsibility for deciding still belongs to you.
Contact Career Services for more information at 745-5671 or stop by Muntz 125 to schedule an appointment with a career counselor.