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Assessment

The initial phase of exploring educational and career options involves assessment of your:
  • Interests
  • Abilities/Skills/Strengths
  • Personality Characteristics
  • Personal Work Values
  • Life Experiences
  • Realistic Possibilities
Career counseling can help you clarify your goals and help you get motivated to begin your journey. Assessments are available online as well as hard copy.
Planning

Career Planning Links

What Can I Do With This Major?


Transfer Institutions

MECC Transfer Guide (pdf)


Transfer Resrouces are available in the career center. For more information contact Carolyn Helms in Student Services, 276-523-2400, Ext. 316.
 
Online Assessments

 

Virginia's Career Planning System,

Powered by Kuder
A comprehensive, research-based approach

to career exploration, planning, and development.

There are three inventories:
Kuder Career Search with Person Match (interest inventory)

This assessment is designed to help determine career interests and presents a rank order of career cluster preference along with links to additional cluster information

.
Kuder Skills Assessment
The Kuder Skills Assessment self-estimate abilities. When taken with the interest inventory, occupational listings with the greatest opportunity for satisfaction and success are listed.


Super's Work Values Inventory-revised
This report is designed to help narrow research to occupations that satisfy individual work values. Twelve work characteristics are reported in order of individual preference. A great way to help fine tune a long list of occupational choices.

Each inventory requires a batch code for access.
Stop by, call (276-523-2400, ext. 343) or email Career Services to receive the code.
 

 


CHOICES Planner offers detailed information about occupations, colleges, and financial aid for school-to-career planning. It also assists job seekers with connections to job bank,s tools for writing resumes, practicing for interviews, and planning a job search.
Log on to CHOICES Planner.

CHOICES Planner also offers a version especially helpful for adult learners re-entering education or in career transition.
Adults in career transition log on to CHOICES Planner

Access to Choices Planner requires a site ID and a password. Stop by, call (276-523-2400, ext. 343) or email Career Services to receive the ID and password.
 
Take the Temperament Sorter II

Contact Career Services to
take the Keirsey Sorter.
The Temperament Sorter
An assessment tool created to uncover tendencies, preferences, and motivations to arrive at an integrated view of their personality. Upon taking the Sorter, the software creates two in-depth, personalized reports, the Learning Temperament Report and the Career Temperament Report. Both are designed to uncover specific perspectives on temperament. What is temperament?

 
 
 
Paper & Pencil Assessments

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

The Strong Interest Inventory
The Self-Directed Search

"Know thyself."    ~    Socrates

Updated December 7, 2006