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Career Planning
Career planning is a process which allows individuals to gather information helping them make decisions, set goals, and take action. The links on this page provides you access to a variety of career planning sites.
- Career Planning Process (Bowling Green State University)
- Career Development Manual (University of Waterloo)
- Planning a Career
- Explore Careers
Interest Assessments
Identify the skills and knowledge that you need still isn't quite the same as identifying what you would like to know. So reflect again in order to start envisioning a fuller picture of your learning by identifying the areas in which you would like to attain additional skills or knowledge - areas that interest you.
Tips on approaching interest inventories:
- List the Skills, Information, and Abilities you are interested in developing: (for each item you are interested in developing, also include a reason why).
- Then list other areas in which you are interested.
- List the areas in which you are not interested, and include a reason why.
- Finally, list any areas you know nothing about to get them recorded in case you decide to do some exploration.
The following links will help you get started:
Skills Assessments
All job skills are transferable. As you analyze your skills do not just think about job titles, think about the general field of work for which you have an interest. Consider the skills you possess, the skills you do not possess, and the skills you do not possess, and the skills you'd like to acquire or refine. This will enable you to understand how you will currently fit a particular field. More importantly, you will know what additional training or education you will need.
Personality Assessments
A personality inventory surveys your personality traits and personal work and communications styles, providing you with valuable insights about yourself. Having a better understanding of yourself and your personal work and communication styles enables you to make more appropriate career decisions; moreover, it helps you to be more effective in whatever career you choose.
The following links will provide you with valuable insights regarding your natural personality traits, i.e., how you would function if there were no outside pressures for adjustment; your work style, including work settings in which you are happiest, and work settings to avoid; how you respond to stress, and what tends to motivate and de-motivate you; your communication style; your leadership style, and your learning style.
If you have any questions or comments in regard to advising, please contact the Student Resource Center staff at:
srcenter@sfsu.edu
or 
1.415.405.3533.
