Choosing a Career to Match Personal Skills and Abilities

Course details

Choosing a career is a vital aspect of one's life based on an individual's interests, abilities and skills. Matching these attributes to a career choice enhances the over 90,000 hours one will spend working in a lifetime. Students will be armed with strategies and knowledge to make a career choice through an introduction to the Holland Code, O*Net online, career testing and personality types in addition to increasing work satisfaction. Students will be familiarized with career development theories to support this vital decision.

Course Objectives

• Know the foundations of career choice and career development.
• Learn the value of resources built on a foundation of data provided by the US Department of Labor.
• Explore and develop skills to make an individualized career choice.
• Investigate viable career options relating to personal strengths.
• Understand the role of professionalism.
• Organize strategies and tips for career development.
• Understand the relationship between career theories and career choice/development.