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The following resources can be helpful in planning your career.

• Visit  to match your major to career areas and types of employers, and learn strategies to make you a more marketable candidate.
• Use the  to identify important skills necessary for a job, get up-to-date information about who is hiring, and determine salary expectations across all experience levels.
• Visit  to learn about requirements, characteristics, and available opportunities in over 900 occupations.

Use the Career Ready Competencies (PDF) to find out how Â鶹ÊÓƵAPK Plan classes align with skills expected of graduates in the workplace. Use the Piper Prepared I Career Ready Assessment (PDF) to identify your strengths and growth areas. Use the Career Readiness reflection sheet (PDF) to showcase how your courses, jobs/internships, and other experiences are helping you become career-ready. Make a copy of the assessment and the reflection sheet and save them to your Google drive.

The Career Development Center utilizes CandidCareer as a video library resource accessible to Â鶹ÊÓƵAPK students, any time and anywhere! Get started via the links below:

The Career Development Center (CDC) offers two assessments to help students discover where their interests overlap with their strengths in the context of majors and career fields. At no extra cost, students can take the and/or the assessments. 

Through a series of questions, the  helps you identify your natural preferences in four areas of personality:

• How do you direct and receive energy: By focusing on the outside world, interacting with people, and taking action; or by focusing on your inner world and reflecting on ideas, memories, and experiences?
• How do you take in information: By focusing on what you perceive using your five senses or by seeing the big picture and looking for relationships and patterns? 
• How do you decide and come to conclusions: By logically analyzing the situation or by considering what’s important to the people involved?
• How do you approach the outside world: In a planned, orderly way or a more flexible, spontaneous way? 

Your natural preferences in these four areas sort you into one of 16 distinct MBTI personality types. Understanding these types gives you objective insight that you can use to enhance your professional and personal relationships, as well as your direction, focus, and choices. 

The  supports:

• Choosing a college major selection: The Strong assessment helps students uncover their career interests and identify which areas of study are appropriate or required for a particular field. Students become more engaged because they are focused on classes relevant to their goals.
• Career exploration: By identifying personal interests and how these relate to different occupations, the Strong assessment opens up the world of work to first-time career seekers and people considering a career transition.
• Career development: The Strong assessment heightens people's self awareness and provides deeper understanding of individual strengths and blind spots, including work style and orientation to risk taking.
• Employee engagement: The Strong assessment helps employees align their interests with areas of responsibility in their job, or in other jobs within your organization where those interests can be applied. 
• Reintegration: The Strong assessment helps individuals re-enter the workplace after a period of disconnection or absence.