Career Services
Career Assessments
The Career Services Office provides career assessment for students who would like to obtain more information about themselves and work environments.
We use the Self Directed Search assessment (it's not a test) developed by Dr. Holland. The assessment is a paper and pencil assessment that can be taken home and completed. This assessment can be mailed to a student off campus and the results can easily be discussed via telephone or email.
An online version, however there is a cost involved. Please check out the web site www.self-directed-search.com for more information.
The assessment is based on Dr.Holland's occupational-environmental typology. The theory uses a classification of persons to describe and explain individual differences and similiarities, and a classification of work environments to describes and explain differences and similiarities among positions and occupations.
People can be described by their degree of resemblance to six theoretical personality types:
- Realistic
- Investigative
- Artistic
- Social
- Enterprising
- Conventional
Work environments can be classified into the same six areas. Ideally, a person will want to match their type with the same environment which utilizes the aspects of that certain type.
Come in and ask to take the Self Directed Search (SDS) today!
