What are career assessments?

Career assessments are the process of identifying your individual skills, personality, interests and values.

• Value: Something intrinsically valuable or desirable (sought material). A value is anything to which a person gives worth, merit or usefulness. Values give direction, without them life becomes aimless - without commitment or meaning.
  
  
• Interest: A feeling that accompanies or causes special attention to an object or class of objects. Extracurricular Activities...Athletics...Community Service....Greek Life ... Music...Leadership Opportunities.... Theater...Clubs...Art
  
  
• Personality: The characteristics that distinguish an individual. A totality of an individual's behavioral and emotional characteristics.
  
  
• Skill: The ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance. A skill is simply any ability to do something whether it is recently acquired or ability you have had for years. Skills can be things you do only with great difficulty or they can be things you do effortlessly.

Where Can I Complete A Career Assessment?

The CREW Center
To use DISCOVER Career Planning Program Visit the CREW Center to obtain a user ID.

The DISCOVER program:

• is a computer based system career guidance and information system developed by ACT
  
• includes a 3 part career assessment that can assist you in understanding how programs of study connect with career opportunities
• is research-based and updated each year
• is a database of info. About occupations, majors, schools, scholarships, military options, etc.
• can be used from any computer with internet access (Note: you must first obtain a user ID and instructions from the CREW Center )

Kentuckiana College Access Center (KCAC)
www.metroversity.org/kcac.htm

Services (Note: You must make an appointment for Career Counseling or Scholarship information.)

• Career Counseling
• Scholarships
• Financial Aid Forms: Completing forms and electronic filing of financial aid forms

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