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Online career assessment programs may give you valuable insights into how God wired you, with your talents, skills, and interests. Knowledge of these can ultimately help you reach decisions about an academic major or career choice. Try out these assessments, and ask for interpretation from a trained career advisor. Then spend time in prayer asking God how you can apply this newly acquired information to His plans for your future.
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Career Assessments
- Clifton StrengthsFinder -- Discover your top 5 natural talents. This assessment is highly recommended for all Grace College students. Click on the link for more information and request your StrengthsFinder code from Career Services today.
- Keirsey Temperament Sorter II --You can take this assessment free and the Campbell Interest and Skill Inventory is also available on this site for a small fee.
- MAPP -- Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential. This assessment helps you determine your motivations and interests.
- O*Net Skills Search -- This assessment allows you to match your skills to occupations and then research those occupations.
Career Research Tools
Here are some of the best online tools to help you explore potential occupations and research what people in those occupations do.
- O*Net -- Learn about more than 10,000 different careers. The Occupational Network Center also comes complete with a occupational matching feature based on the skills you believe you possess.
- Wetfeet -- Search this database of occupational information and interviews with people in the fields that you may be considering. Wetfeet also has many good articles on resumes, interviewing, and other features.
- NACE JobWeb -- Search employers who recruit college graduates nationally or use the career library to get updated on important career related news that will enhance you employment outlook.
- CDM CareerZone -- Type in an occupational title to research it and related occupations. Link these titles to actual job openings.
- Learn More Indiana -- Use the Adult section of this site. You can take inventories or research occupations using the Career Clusters feature. Salary information is also listed for various careers.
- Big Yellow -- Believe it or not, the online yellow pages can be very valuable in your job search. Use it to find the names of organizations in a particular area in your field of interest.
- ThomasNet -- An amazing database and search engine of industrial product, brand names, and manufacturing companies. If you've ever wanted to work for a company that manufactures pillows, manages data processing services, produces cases for musical instruments, or makes golf bags and accessories, then this site is a must.
- The Vault -- This site is considered the most trusted name in company information.
Career Resource Room
Come to the Career Services
Office for additional resources that will be a nice supplement
to the information found through the links above.
The Career
Resource Room hours during the academic year are:
Monday -- Thursday 7 a.m. – 11
p.m.
Friday 7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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