Career planning offers the following tools to help you identify career paths best suited to support your lifelong success.
Personality Research Form
This instrument, developed by Douglas N. Jackson, Ph.D., utilizes personality variables defined by Henry Murray in his Variables of Personality. Profiles from the instrument give students information about their personality traits, which are relevant to life in general and career decisions in particular. Because the PRF was normed on a college population, it is especially helpful in a college setting. To arrange testing, schedule an appointment at the career planning office.
Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
The SII has been a standout in the career assessment field since its introduction in 1933. Continually researched and revised, the results to this inventory provide information at three different levels of vocational choice.
- First, a general level based on six occupational themes
- Second, basic interest scales comparing your interests to those of a broad sample of people
- Third, specific occupational scales that allow you to compare your level of interest in any of the many listed occupations with successful, happily employed people in the same occupation
The SII is administered to each sophomore class well before majors must be declared; for
the class of 2011, the SII will be available on Thursday, September 18, 5-7:30 p.m. The class event will include dessert and career/personality match predictions. Results will be available in October. Alumnae may take the SII during semester breaks, summer and alumnae weekend.
You may also schedule additional sessions whenever you have a question or concern which relates to your major, career or graduate school plans.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
The MBTI has been used for over fifty years to help individuals understand themselves and their interactions with others. Based upon Carl Jung's psychological typology, the MBTI was developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs who use four dichotomies to determine a person's type: Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving. The MBTI helps with understanding differences between types and improving communication at work and in personal relationships.
Individual appointments
We invite all seniors to schedule individual consultations about their post-graduation plans. We encourage juniors who are considering graduate school to make individual appointments before their senior year to discuss decisions about timing and programs.
If you are a student who is not sure of your goals and objectives, you may feel more comfortable discussing your ideas and thoughts in an individual counseling session. Career planning counselors are happy to help you acquire accurate information about careers, decide about appropriate majors and career choices, interpret your interest and personality tests, find an internship, write a resume or find a part-time job. To schedule an individual appointment, call us at 404 471-6397.