FOCUS Career Assessment

You can explore careers by name, industry, or your area of study. You can also use this tool to compare careers.

This part of Focus2 outlines your career goals, educational strengths and weaknesses, and areas where you need personal development. It also helps you keep track of where you are in reaching your career goals.

You can take and re-take these self-assessments at any time. You can also review your assessment answers. The five assessments are

• Work Interest Inventory
• Personality
• Skills
• Work Values
• Leisure Activities

This portion of Focus 2 combines your information from the other three areas into one place. Your information can be updated whenever you want.

• Meet with the career counselor to help clearly identify your interests.
• Set up accounts with Optimal Resume and Focus Career Assessment and familiarize yourself with what they have to offer.
• Review your Strengths Quest results from Freshman Year Experience and discover your Top 5 Strengths for Life & Career Planning.
• Talk with professors and upper-class students about college, majors and careers.
• Try new and different courses or activities.
• Discover your SHAPE:
  • Spiritual Gifts
  • Heart Passions
  • Abilities and Talents
  • Personality and Temperament
  • Experience and Education

• Discover your personality type and career fields that are most fulfilling for people like you.
• Continue to update your resume and portfolio on Optimal Resume.
• If you haven't yet, make an account with FOCUS, our online self-assessment tool and explore career options.
• Make a special effort to get to know some of your professors better.
• Try to obtain a career-related part-time or summer employment opportunity.

• Continue to develop your abilities by getting involved in an internship, volunteer work or other extracurricular activities that relate to your career interests.
• Work with the career counselor to relate values, interests and abilities to career options.
• Contact Career Services for assistance with resume & cover letter preparation.
• Develop your interviewing skills and practice them in a mock interview or in Optimal Resume's Interview Preparation Module.
• Consider adding a double major, minor, or concentration to strengthen your options.
• Find a career mentor.
• Consult with your faculty advisor to ensure that you are on track for graduation.

• Continue to develop your abilities by getting involved in an internship, volunteer work or other extracurricular activities that relate to your career interests.
• Work with the career counselor to relate values, interests and abilities to career options.
• Contact Career Services for assistance with resume & cover letter preparation.
• Develop your interviewing skills and practice them in a mock interview or in Optimal Resume's Interview Preparation Module.
• Consider adding a double major, minor, or concentration to strengthen your options.
• Find a career mentor.
• Consult with your faculty advisor to ensure that you are on track for graduation.

• Take advantage of the Career Services you missed out on during your college years.
• Consider becoming a career mentor for other students who would benefit from your work experience.