Career Exploration
DISCOVER, EXPLORE, CONNECT, SUCCEED!
If you would like assistance choosing a major and/or career path,
please feel free to make an appointment with a Career Services for
Career Counseling. This is a 3-appt series that enables you to discover
more about yourself and explore how that relates to career options.
We have a variety of career exploration tools that may be used to
help you during the career exploration process.
- Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (used in Career Counseling)
- Strong Interest Inventory (used in Career Counseling)
- Career Cruising
- E-COSIS
- True Colors
- Microskills
- Occ-U-Sort
- Knowdell Card Sort
- Interest Mosaic
The intent of the assessments is to provide insight into your personality,
interests and values. It is important to understand how those characteristics
could impact your career decision making process. Many of our assessments
require a professional to interpret results and therefore must be
completed within the context of career counseling or under the guidance
of an advisor.
* Career Services appointments are at no charge for current students
and alumni. Community members will be charged the following for services:
$50.00 for Career Counseling (3appt series) and $25.00 for any Job
Search Skills services (Resume Reviews/Mock Interviews - 2appt series).
To make an appointment, contact Career Services through the Student
Success Center front desk at 970.339.6251.
Websites to Help With Your Career Planning Process…
Career Cruising As an Aims student or alumni,
you have access to this excellent career resource.
For access to the site please send an email to the Senior Advisor
for Career Services at rachel.davis@aims.edu.
You must provide your full name and Aims ID for verification purposes.
http://careercruising.com/default.asp
What Can I Do With a Major In...? Gives you ideas
about where you can use certain majors in the real world of work.
http://www.unco.edu/careers/students/major-planning/WhatCanIDoInfo/index.html
Explore careers in healthcare
http://www.explorehealthcareers.org/en/index.aspx
Explore careers in the military
http://www.careeronestop.org/MilitaryTransition/
Watch videos about careers (available in English or Spanish)
http://www.careerinfonet.org/acinet/videos_by_occupation.asp?id=27&nodeid=28
The Department of Labor produced this site which will allow you
to read about multiple aspects related to a variety of careers
http://www.bls.gov/oco/
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