Career Services

Assessments

Choices is an easy-to-use, comprehensive career exploration and information system. The Choices databases of occupations, post-secondary schools, and financial aid awards provide many choices for you. Individuals approach career decision-making from different perspectives. You may have a specific career area in mind, or you may be looking for information about a number of occupations.

Choices can meet your needs in career exploration and decision making. These needs include:

•  obtaining information about specific occupations
•  sorting occupations according to their potential to meet your personal needs, preferences, or expectations
•  expanding or reducing the number of career possibilities for you to consider
•  exploring career alternatives based on your personal priorities and values
•  identifying appropriate training and/or education alternatives; and
•  verifying appropriateness of your pre-conceived career considerations

Choices helps you to analyze and sort through vast amounts of important information about occupations, educational institutions, programs of study and financial aid sources. It can easily show you the connection between an occupation, the program of study that lead to that occupation, and which institutions offer those programs of study. If you need to know about sources of financial aid, Choices can search for information regarding those too.

In addition, Choices assists in refining occupational and educational goals by allowing you to enter selection criteria based on your own wants and needs and by having the system sort through its lists of occupations and institutions and prioritize them based on your input.