The Center for Counseling and Student Development (located over the Bookstore) in the Perkins Student Center provides individual and group career counseling to help you assess your interests, skills, and values. Interest inventories and assessment booklets, as well as reviewing activities in which you have participated, may also be useful.

Interests -
Identify interests by reviewing courses and course projects that you have liked. Examine interests that have developed from volunteer, part-time, and summer work. What extra-curricular activities have you enjoyed? Compare this information with interest inventory results.

Skills -
Include not only grades and course projects, but also accomplishments that you have through volunteer, part-time, or summer work. Identify skills obtained in courses through labs, writing, research participation, and work with professors. If you need help developing study or time-management skills, contact the Academic Enrichment Center, 831-2805.

Values -
Which values are important to you? (Excitement? A sense of accomplishment? Security? Improving society? Helping people? Making money?) Values are often learned through participation in sports, school activities, volunteer work, and employment.

Work experiences can help you identify your values. Career Services' home page on the Web describes opportunities for student employment on and off campus, as well as a list of volunteer opportunities. You may also attend the Volunteer Fair that is sponsored by Career Services.

Career counseling at the Center for Counseling and Student Development can help you prepare to explore career options and develop a list of possible career choices.

As you develop career alternatives, you may also learn about majors that will provide training and skills for these choices.