Career Exploration Tools
Explore Career Paths
Career Explorer - CareerExplorer is a free platform that helps you find your ideal career. Take this interactive career test to better understand your core strengths and your compatibility with over 800 careers.
CareerOneStop - Job trends, credentials, and salary informaiton nationwide as well as by state.
Careers.org
O*NET Online
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Lifeworks: Health & Medical Science Careers
Career Coach: Career Coach is a virtual tool offered in partnership with Montgomery College which provides the most current regional data on wages, employment, job postings, and associated education and training. Just enter a keyword for any career you want to explore and quickly learn about employment prospects and trends, job opportunities, income potential, and job skills needed.
Self-Assessment Tools
Focus-2 Self Career Inventory & Self-Assessment: Focus-2 is an online career and education planning system based on established career and counseling principles. It provides a complete picture of your interests, values, personality, skills, and leisure activities using self-assessment questionnaires, interest inventories, and personality testing. After assessing your personal attributes, the system searches its career and occupational information database to identify and analyze occupations and career paths that match your personal characteristics. All students and alumni from USG are eligible for free registration. To get
FREE access to Focus-2, students may go to the
USG Focus-2 portal and register for an account using the following access code:
usg
Work Values Assessment– Determine what values you would want most in a job and employer
Work Values Inventory – Determine what values will satisfy you the most in a job
Jung Typology Test – Find out your 4-letter personality type based on Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach to personality
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) – This 8 minute evaluation is confidential and free. The results will include a description of of which one of the 16 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality categories you likely belong to.
CareerOneStop Self-Assessments
MyPlan.com
16 Personalities
123Test.com
CareerFitter.com
Salary Information
NACE Salary Calculator - Hosted by the National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE)
Salary Data by Occupation - Hosted by the U.S. Depatment of Labor Career OneStop
Starting Salary Projections: Class of 2020 - Provided by the National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE)
Cost of Living by City - Hosted by CNN