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Career Development Center
Effective career and life planning begins with a
firm determination of who you are. A strong sense of
self-awareness will give you the confidence you need
to plan your future. The first step is a true
understanding of yourself. Of all the people in the
world worth knowing, you should know yourself best.
When we gain better insight into ourselves, we can
see more clearly the world around us.
Self-understanding is also the first step toward
better understanding of others. When we have a sense
of who we are, we are better able to make decisions
about things that affect our lives. We are able to
make important choices concerning such things as
academic major, marriage, lifestyle and career
direction. Knowing yourself prepares you to be more
effective in making decisions and setting goals.
Personality Tests
Mini Myers-Briggs Test
Personality Type
Quiz
Holland Code
Career Test
Career Enjoyment Test
O
Net Interest Profiler
Career Aptitude Test
Skills Matcher
Career Explorer
Visual Quiz: Who Am I?
Career Fitter
Know Yourself
Knowing yourself prepares you to be more effective in making decisions and
setting goals. In attempting to determine where you want to go and what you want
to do, it is particularly important to determine who you are. It is vital in
career and life planning to gain a clear understanding of yourself and firm
determination of who you are.
"We were meant to work in ways that suit us, drawing on our natural talents &
abilities as a way to express ourselves & contribute to others. This work is a
key to our true happiness & self-expression."
-MARSHA SINETAR
| Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow
Purpose and
Passion
Career Advice: I'm Just Lost
Poverty, Money and Love
Find Your Passion
How to Know Your
Life Purpose
Design Your Life
Don't Find a Job,
Find a Mission
Do What You Like,
Like What You Do
Unconventional
Career Advice
Live to Learn
Our Definition of
Failure is All Wrong
Interests|Skills|Values
Who are you? Where are you going? What is the right career for you? What is the
right major? Is there a specific career for your personality type?
Think about the activities that you perform on a daily basis. Which ones are
your favorite? Which ones are you particularly good at? Which ones do you
particularly enjoy? Which ones are the most important to you? Which ones are the
most meaningful? These questions are the key to considering how you feel about
the activities you're engaged in.
Consider three aspects of all activities...
INTERESTS - What
activities do I like to do?
SKILLS - What
activities am I
good at doing?
VALUES - What
activities are
consistent with my beliefs?
Finding the Work You
Love
How to Make Your
Life a Success
How Successful
People Think
How to Find and Live
Your Calling
What Skills Lead to
Success
Skills for the
Future Workforce
Strengthening Your
Soft Skills
What Are You Going
to Do with What You Have?
Live to Learn
Unconventional Careers
Doing Good for
Others
What Can I do With This Major?
Careers by Major
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Academic Invest: Discover
Careers
Career Ship
Passion|Talent|Purpose
PASSION | What do I love?
The things you love to do are called interests. Interests are things you find
desirable, fun, or pleasant. Interests are activities you find enjoyable.
Interests are things you have a passion for. Identifying your interests adds
excitement and vitality to your life.
TALENT | What am I good at?
Activities that you are good at doing are called skills. Skills are expressed by
ability, strength, talent, and aptitude. Skills determine expertise, competency,
proficiency, and dexterity. Skills may be defined in terms of mastery, power,
knowledge, and intelligence. Skills are oftentimes reflected in your
accomplishments, achievements, and successes. Identifying your skills increases
your sense of confidence.
PURPOSE | What do I think is important?
The things in life that you consider to be important are reflected in your
values. Values are expressed in beliefs, priorities, attitudes, feelings, and
principles. Values relate to your dispositions, needs, opinions, and
preferences. Values address what really matters most to you in your life and
what is essential. Clarifying values provides the criteria by which you
determine meaning and purpose in your life.
Defining Success
Don't Live
Each Day as If it Were Your Last
Do What You Like,
Like What You Do
Career Planning:
Interests, Skills, Values
What Should I Do
With My Life?
Multi Passions |
Multi Callings
Don't Strive to Famous, Strive to Be Talented
How
to Find Your Passion
Live to Learn
Don't Follow Your
Passion, Do Something Valuable
Your Calling
Match Game
Effective goal setting and decision making begin with a serious
consideration of one's interests, skills, and values. These personal
characteristics, when integrated with real world options, become the
starting point for career and life planning. Effective career and life
planning seeks to match your unique personality with specific job
requirements.
Once you have defined the internal realm of your personality, you then
must explore the external world of your career options. Through serious
assessment of your personal traits and thorough investigation of various
job-related factors, you can effectively make a good match and find a good
fit.
What Can I do With This Major?
Careers by Major
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Academic Invest: Discover
Careers
Career Ship
Decisions|Goals
Sound decision-making and goal setting is greatly enhanced when you are
able to define the setting and circumstances in which you are the most
satisfied and productive. When you have a strong sense of self-awareness
and a broad knowledge of your options, you are better able to make
decisions about things that affect your life. You are able to make
important choices
concerning such things as academic major, activities, marriage, lifestyle,
leisure, and career direction.
What
Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Monster Ad: When I Grow Up
Secret to Success:
Setting the Right Goals
How to Find and Live
Your Calling
Redefining Happiness
Stop Wishing, Start
Doing
Life Lessons
Guide to Goal
Setting
Multi Passions |
Multi Callings
set of High
Achievers
Live Life to Its
Fullest
Career Testing Services
Learn more about your personality type. Explore your career options. Begin
the career planning and goal setting process. Get focused. Gather the
tools and resources you need to ensure your career success.
The UM Career Development Center offers comprehensive, professional career testing to
students seeking help in choosing the right academic major and career
path. Career testing provides students assistance in identifying their
unique personality type, affirming their strengths, and defining their
interests, skills, and values. The results of your career test, along with
an in-depth conversation with a career counselor, can provide the critical
information you need to make a good decision about your career path and
academic major. We will help you match your personality to the career path
that is the best fit for you.
Career Development Center
University of Montevallo
Station 6262 | Montevallo, Alabama 35115
Farmer Hall, Second Floor
205-665-6262 | career@montevallo.edu
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