Online Self-Assessment

FOCUS

UNDECIDED MAJOR?

CONSIDERING CHANGING MAJORS?

NEED A CAREER PATH?

CONSIDERING GRADUATE SCHOOL?

FOCUS is a self-paced online career guidance and educational planning tool. FOCUS users learn to make more realistic decisions about their goals and plans by utilizing tools for:

Self-Assessment: Users develop an accurate picture of their interests, work values, personality, skills, educational and leisure time preferences.
Broadening your career horizons by discovering how your personal attributes relate to occupations, academic disciplines and training.
Narrowing down your options by exploring and analyzing occupations and educational areas of study.
Mapping out realistic goals and plans and identify your personal training and development needs.

To Register for FOCUS go to: https://www.FocusCareer2.com/Portal/Login.cfm?SID=338, to create an account you will need to use the keycode "penguin."

Strong Interest Inventory

The Strong Interest Inventory identifies how similiar or dissimilar you interests are to the interests of people working in numerous occupations, as well as work tasks, leisure activities, and school subjects. This assessment assists in identifying areas of interest and specific activities and/or occupations you may want to explore further. Overall, it includes information on how your interests can be linked to majors, campus activities, internships, and occupations. It also provides tips for choosing a:

Major
Graduate program
Job out of college

**NOTE: The Strong Interest Inventory measures your interests and not your abilities.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator provides you with information about your behavior preferences, or how you prefer to go about doing things in your daily life. Knowing your preferences and learning about other people's can help you:

Understand what your strengths are
Determine what kind of work you might enjoy
Understand how people with different preferences relate to one another

***For assistance in taking the Strong Interest Inventory (SII) or Myer's Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessments, please contact the career services staff. Be aware that if you choose to take the SII or MBTI you will need to set up a 50-minute career counseling appointment to get the results. To do so, please contact:

Jennifer Armstrong, MS Susan Fyles, MS

                                                    Career Counselor                                                          Director
                                                    p. 415.485.3235                                                             p. 415.485 .3283
                                                   jennifer.armstrong@dominican.edu                          sfyles@dominican.edu

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