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Explore Your Horizons!
Text Box: Campus Career Center Resources COMPUTERIZED CAREER EXPLORATION WITH INTERACTIVE USER-FRIENDLY COMPUTER PROGRAMS Career Explorer Explore interests and find the best 20 matches from jobs in the Occupational Outlook Handbook—in just 15 to 20 minutes! Wouldn’t it be great if a simple interest inventory could point directly at the best career information? We thought so much of the idea that we produced a new CD-ROM that combines the power of two excellent career information resources—the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) and the Guide for Occupational Exploration. In about 15 to 20 minutes, users can indicate their interests and get a list of the best 20 occupational matches. Then they can access these occupations in the OOH and read about: Nature of work Working conditions Training, other qualifications, and advancement Employment Earnings Job outlook Related occupations Sources of additional information 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 the any of the following?" Users scan 4 to 6 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 0 to 4. Responses Can Be Saved at Any Time At any time as users go through the interest sections, they can save their responses and come back later to finish the sections or to modify previous responses. 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 pushing a button: nature of work, working conditions, employment, training, job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and sources of additional information. Print Options A report can be printed for any occupation, and the list of 20 best matches can also be printed—allows student users to take information home to show parents. Career Center Workstations •          12 User Friendly Work Stations –         Internet Explorer: Facts.org, Media Player –         USB Port (Jump Drive) –         CD, DVD and floppy drives –         Microsoft Office XP: Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Word –         Printer Access –         New Student Orientation, D2L Tutorial –  College Grad Job Hunter SIGI–3 A complete, self-directed, interactive guidance and information system. Create your own personal profile to clarify your work-related values; search and create a list of occupations based on your values, interests and work skills. Information on schools, industries, and resume writing is also provided. Gives students and adults a realistic view of the best educational and career options for their future success. Choices/Roadmap 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 American Job Bank. Please Understand Me (Myers– Briggs—Personality Assessment) A Myers-Briggs computerized analysis of personalities based on four basic temperaments and sixteen character types. This instrument helps assess one’s personal style of decision making and information gathering based upon Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type. It has many applications, but in the career decision making process it can help you consider how compatible career choices will be with one’s preferred style. FACTS.org 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. CollegeGrad.com 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. 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.

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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