Identify Your Interest Areas
Volunteer to mentor high school students in your community.
Start off by identifying your career interest areas - the types of things you enjoy
doing, the skills you like to use and would like to develop, and the talents you
have. The career exploration quizzes listed below can help you find occupations
that match the skills and interests that you have. These career quizzes give adequate
guidance for career exploration; therefore, it is neither encouraged nor necessary
to pay for the detailed searches or results.
- To begin using CIS, obtain a user name and password from your school
- Become aware of education and work options
- Connect education and work
- Make successful education and work decisions
OLMIS Skill Explorer -
olmis.org
- Review the listed skills
- Choose skills that reflect your experiences and abilities
- Your skills will be matched with possible occupations
- Measures your skills, abilities, values, interests, and personality
- Identifies promising careers and information about them
- The Career Quiz defines four behaviors to find careers that could be a good match
- The Advanced School Search lists schools that match your needs and preferences
- School Match fits you with schools to have contact you
- All people can be classified using four criteria
- Get your type formula, strength of the preferences, and type description
ASVAB - Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery - asvabprogram.com/
- Talk to your counselor to find out about ASVAB testing at your school
- Consists of eight short tests
- Scores ranking your current strengths in verbal, math, and science and technical
skills
- ASVAB scores are commonly used for military enlistment purposes