Career Planning, Job Placement, and Cooperative Education Center
Computer Guided Self Assessments - Explore Your Horizons!
Discovering who you are and what to do can be a difficult and frustrating task, especially when it comes to deciding what you are going to do with your life. But this is not a task you need to face alone. Here at SFCC we have several resources available to help you in your self discovery. The following self assessments are available by visiting the Career Center on SFCC’s main campus.
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CareerExplorer
- Match your interests to find 20 possible careers in 15 to 20 minutes.
- Then research your 20 matches in the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) to learn about:
- nature of work
- working conditions
- required qualifications
- opportunities for advancement
- earnings
- job outlook
- related occupations
- and more
How CareerExplorer Works
About 250 occupations are divided into interest groups, and the software goes through the same sequence of questions and choices for each group. As each group comes up, this question is asked: "In your work, would you like to do any of the following?" Users scan four to six job duties. A “no" answer sends them to the next section where the question is repeated with different job duties; a "yes" answer moves users to more in-depth "yes or no" questions and finally to rank potential jobs on a scale of zero to four.
Displays List of 20 Best Matches
When all interest sections are complete, CareerExplorer displays a list of the best 20 job matches. When users select any of these 20 occupations, they see a full-color photo of a person working in that occupation plus the thorough narrative description from the OOH. The narrative is divided into 8 pieces, each accessible by click of a button: nature of work, working conditions, employment, training, job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and sources of additional information.
Print Options
The list of the 20 best matches can be printed for any occupation, allowing students to take information home to review.
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Choices Planner
A career guidance software that has information on occupations, schools, financial aid/scholarships and the labor market. Choices provides interests and skills surveys, Internet access to Web sites and the American Job Bank. Responses to surveys can be saved so that the user may finish or modify responses at their convenience.
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It’s all academic; visit FL schools online; Access career planning resources; Apply for admission and Financial Aid; Review academic transcripts; Search degree Programs; Read college catalogs.
- Choices Planner is also available through the FACTS.org Web site.
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Provides information on the following:
- Salaries and information for thousands of careers.
- Direct links to the top 500 entry level employers.
- Myers Briggs type personality test.
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Win-Way Resume
Contains more than 13,000 customizable resumes, as well as hundreds of persuasive cover letters. There’s a built-in spell checker and a mail merge module. Resumes can be printed, faxed, e-mailed, or exported to MS Word. It also includes a multimedia interview simulator, and salary negotiation strategies.
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