Career Counseling
Our counseling staff will assist you to discover your career and help you map out a plan of action.
We offer several career planning assessment tools that will help you:
- Discover your work interests, your strengths and skills.
- Discover your work values.
- Discover your occupational and leadership personality type.
- Discover your priorities about the right work environment.
Once you complete the assessment, you can meet individually with a counselor for one-on-one guidance and interpretation of the assessment results.
- Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS) - must schedule an appointment with a counselor
- "Planning Your Dreams" at Tennessee College and Career Planning System; KUDER Career Inventory and information.
Career Planning Resources
Explore the many online resources to discover your passion, your educational path to create the career YOU want.
- What Color Is Your Parachute?
- Career Voyages, an on-line program developed by the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education designed to provide information on high-growth, high-demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.
- Cool Works© is about finding a seasonal job or career in some of the greatest places on Earth.
- Occupational Handbook for job markets; find out about the hot jobs and what they pay, plus other useful tips.
- The Labor Market Information LMI/Research and Statistics Section is the official source for all employment-related data for the state, the metropolitan areas, and the individual counties. The section works directly with the U. S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics to gather core labor market data that are comparable to information gathered nationwide.
- JobWeb offers career and job-search advice as well as useful tips for email etiquette and sample resumes. Free booklets are available in the Job Placement Office and Counseling offices on all campuses.
- What Can I do with a Major in . . . Univ. of North Carolina Wilmington resource
- Explore careers - University of North Carolina Wilmington Career Center
- http://careerplanning.about.com/
Job Placement
Resources for employment opportunities and preparation for entering the workforce; resume writing, mock job interviews, job etiquette and additional information may be found at the PSTCC Placement Office.