Exploration
Identifying a career that will be a good fit for you requires careful exploration of your values, needs, interests, and skills. Use the following tools to EXPLORE your own unique traits before beginning to research various professional paths.
Career Planning Tools
Career Coach
Career Coach offers a platform for exploring your interests via self-assessment, reviewing SOU’s academic programs, and researching potential career paths through regional data on salary, projected job-growth, most frequently requested skills, and top employers.
Forage Career Quizzes
Go into theforage.com or through Navigate to access multiple job simulations
CareerOneStop
Explore career options through various assessments
Take both the Interest Assessment and the Skills Matcher and see which occupations show up on both lists
Personality Tests
16 Personalities (Personality test with extensive results analysis, including career)
VIA Institute of Character Strengths Survey (12-minute survey)
Sokanu Career Explorer (30 minute personality-to-career test)
Career Pivots
Google Career Dreamer makes recommendations based on your skills and education
“How to Change Careers” article from USA.gov
“What to Ask Yourself Before a Career Pivot” from Harvard Business Review