K.E.G. CAREER PLANNING
K.E.G. CAREER PLANNING
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CAREER ASSESSMENTS
Learning More About Yourself
Career assessment is a process of assessing your interests, skills, personality traits, and values. By conducting career assessments in these four areas, you are likely to discover which careers fit you best. Career assessment is an important part of career management, and also includes assessments of maturity, career readiness, and job satisfaction. Career assessments can be formal or informal. Here are select websites where you will find free career assessments:
http://my.lifevaluesinventory.org
https://www.123test.com/work-values-test/
http://www.whatsnext.com/content/life-values-self-assessment-test
https://www.trendfollowing.com/contact/
http://www.onetonline.org/skills/
http://assets.cce.umn.edu/cardsort/skills/
https://www.myskillsmyfuture.org
CAREER DISCOVERY
Discover The Career That's Right For You
Selecting the right career and making informed career decisions requires reliable information about the opportunities that a particular occupation may provide. Often, individuals pursue career paths that ultimately does not enable them to acheive their professional, personal and financial aspirations. By investing the time that is necessary to explore career options, the labor market, job outlook data, educational requirements and occupational descriptions you will be in a better position to make an informed career choice. Below are websites where you can research career information.
Career and Occupation Discovery Online Resources
https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/majors-careers
http://worksourcemontgomery.com/job-seekers/
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED182460
http://www.bls.gov/bls/ofolist.htm
https://www.indeed.com/q-Databank-jobs.html
Locate State Job Banks
https://www.careeronestop.org/jobsearch/findjobs/state-job-banks.aspx
For College Graduates
http://whatcanidowiththismajor.com/major/majors/
For Those Seeking Federal Government Employment
Maryland Workforce Exchange
https://mwejobs.maryland.gov/vosnet/Default.aspx
District of Columbia Job Search
Virginia Workforce Connection
National Career Fairs
https://www.nationalcareerfairs.com
CAREER PLANNING
Developing And Implementing Your Career Plan
If you have made it this far you are definitely headed for success! Once you’ve selected an occupation or career path to pursue, how do you get there? The answer is to develop an individual career plan. An individual career plan outlines the steps you’ll take to reach your career goal. It is important to take your time and prepare your individual career plan thoughtfully and carefully. Your individual career plan may include additional training, mentoring, coaching, additional research, resume updating and preparation , practicing interviewing skills, image consulting and other experiences so that you are best positioned for your chosen career.
RESUMES
A resume is your self-marketing tool. It must be fresh, appealing and enable you to present your skills , education & experience in a succinct and logical manner. There are many free online resources available to assist you in preparing your resume. There are also services available that will create a professional resume for you at various price points such as: http://www.topresume.com.
ACE THE INTERVIEW
Interviewing is essentially the second major opportunity (after your resume) to market your skills and abilities and also to learn about the organization to which you have applied for a career opportunity. Preparation is everything. Understanding the kinds of questions that you will be asked is important and ensuring that you are providing responses that are not only truthful but allow the interviewer to truly gage your experience level, motivation and overall interest in the available career opportunity. This is your chance to show who you are and what you bring to the table. Interviewing can be a stressful experience, therefore, by clicking on the button below, you will be connected to an online interview preparation website where you can practice and perfect your interviewing skills. To practice your interviewing skills, check out this website: http://www.interviewgold.com.
CREATE YOUR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT AND CAREER PLAN
Developing your Individual Career Development Plan involves assessing where you are, and making a decision as to where you want to go and developing a plan of action to get there. It's best to put your plan in writing as you are more likely to commit to what you've written. Your plan should include your goals, skills to be developed, how the skills will be developed, and timeframes for completing any necessary professional development. Click on the PDF below to view a sample individual career development plan courtesy of Illinois State University.
"A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
