Career Counselor
Appointments
To schedule an appointment with a Career Counselor:
Use self service: CLICK HERE
Or Email: G-Career.Counter@gcccd.edu
Career Assessments
- Career Coach (10-15 mins): Self-paced, online career guidance tool that can help you explore your
interests, personality, skills and values and their relation to possible majors and
careers. With access via the web, you can explore career options through self-guided,
interactive exercises.
- CA Career Zone (10-15 mins): Gives you a choice of 4 assessments: Quick Assessment, Interest Profiler,
Skills Profiler, and Work Importance Profiler. The Quick Assessment allows you to
explore jobs that best match your personality. The Interest Profiler reveals your
interests and how they relate to the world of work. The Skills Profiler can help you
explore occupations
requiring your skillset. The Work Importance Profiler lists jobs that reflect your
values.
- Career Cruising (10-15 mins): Offers 3 assessments: Matchmakers & My Skills, Ability Profiler, and
Learning Styles Inventory. The Matchmaker & My Skills assessment lists the top jobs
based off of your answers. The Ability Profiler Assessment compares your abilities
to careers of interest. The Learning Styles Inventory conveniently gives tips on how
to improve study habits
based on your learning style.
- Career One Stop (10-15 mins): Has 3 assessments: Interest, Skills, and Work Values. Each assessment
tailors your personality to possible career opportunities. In about 5-10 minutes you
can assess yourself then learn and plan your career pathway.
- My Next Move (20-30 mins): Uses information from O*Net information, which is sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Labor, to help determine your interests as they relate to work.
Unlike the other tests, this one asks you how to rate how much you’d enjoy performing
very specific work tasks like “building kitchen cabinets,” “laying brick” and “buying
and selling stocks and bonds.” It’s really nicely color-coded as well. Hang in there,
this one is 60 questions.
- *STRONG Inventory (30-40 mins): Helps individuals identify their work personality by exploring their
interests in six broad areas: realistic, artistic, investigative, social, enterprising,
and conventional (often referred to using the acronym RIASEC). ). It then breaks the
RIASEC areas into 30 specific areas of interest that can be directly related to fields
of study, careers, and leisure activities.
- *Myers Briggs Type Indicator-MBTI (30-40 mins): An introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological
preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The test attempts
to assign four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking
or feeling, judging or perceiving. One letter from each category is taken to produce
a four-letter test result, like "INFJ" or "ENFP".
*Requires a career counseling appointment for interpretation of assessment results.
To request an assessment click here: https://tinyurl.com/uellmzx
Career Development is a lifelong process and an individual must allow for changes
over time. A student must be:
- Focused and flexible about what you want
- Practical and magical about what you do
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You might take Career Assessments to assist you in clarifying self-concept or efficacy. Assessment tools involve the measures of your Interests, Values, Skills/Abilities, and Personality Preference.
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Next, relate your new self-knowledge to occupational information. Exposure to a narrower
range of career options will allow you to consider personal lifestyle implications
and consider course relevance.
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Following extensive occupational research, create a Career Focus. Your career focus
may involve levels of job titles based on shot-term, mid-range, or long-term educational
degree levels and work experience.
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Look into possible education majors related to your career focus. Once you have made
a decision, make an appointment with a Counselor in the Counseling Department, Disabled
Student Services or EOPS to create your academic plan at Grossmont College.
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REMEMBER to remain flexible and creative with your career development process. Nothing is linear anymore and we must be prepared to manage changes over time in the 21st Century Workplace.
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