Career Assessment Series
Would you like help clarifying your career path or academic focus? Career interest assessments are helpful tools in career/academic
exploration and planning. An assessment may help determine if your chosen major or field will be a good fit with your interests.
In addition career inventories may help fine tune the job search upon graduation or facilitate your ability to find work environments
or industries which best match your temperaments, values, interests, strengths, and skills.
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| Attend a group session | Student Clubs and Classroom presentations | Build your own workshop |
Career Assessment Series Options
Several training options are available to meet the diverse needs of the University of Colorado population.
Option 1: Attend a scheduled Group Session(s) this semester
Option 2: Host a session for your group by building a customized Career Assessment Series
Learn more about Career Assessments
For further information, please call 303-492-6541 or email ann.piatt@colorado.edu
Option 1: Attend a scheduled Group Session(s) this semester
The group format can provide valuable insights not only from the facilitator's certified training experience, but also from the
participants, who provide a richness of insight.
Major group objectives:
- Increase self-understanding and self-awareness in relation to interests, strengths, personality type and values.
- Encourage an understanding of how career-assessment results can relate to specific careers.
- Assist in taking a more targeted role in the career planning process.
- Enhance participant's ability to find work environments or industries which best match the participant's temperament, values, interests and strengths.
You will gain these skills & knowledge:
- An understanding of what your top five strengths are and how to either use them on the job, in the job search or for exploring good fit majors in school.
- An understanding of how your interests affect career choices.
- An understanding of your personality type and how it can factor into making certain careers more attractive and viable.
Fall 2012 Scheduled Assessment Series
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| Strengths: Tue. 10/16/12,5-6:30pm, Center for Community Building S435
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| Strong Interest: Tue. 10/23/12, 5-6:30pm, Center for Community Building S435
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| Do What You Are: Tue. 10/30/12, 5-6:30pm, Center for Community Building S435
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Interested in signing up?
Call the front desk at 303-492-6541 to pay and register for the group assessment session(s) of your choice. You will receive instructions
on how to take the assessments online.
Learn more about Career Assessments
For further information, please call 303-492-6541 or email ann.piatt@colorado.edu
Option 2: Host a session for your group by building a customized Career Assessment Series
How can assessments help your group/club?
- Assist individual in understanding themselves and their behaviors
- Appreciate others so as to make constructive use of differences
- Approach problems in different yet healthy ways and thus be more productive
- Leverage individuals' natural strengths
- Improve teamwork
- Understand and adapt to differences in leadership
- Enhance effective communication
- Design training activities
- Develop skills
Build your own Career Assessment Series
Pick and choose as you build your own workshop! The approximate time needed to cover each topic is 1 to 1.5 hours, but we can
arrange shorter or longer overall workshops to accommodate the needs of your specific group. Each workshop provides participants with:
- An understanding of the theory behind specific assessments and review of individual reports
- Experiential exercises to interact with other participants
- Allows time for questions
Listed below are topic options if you're not sure where to start or suggest a topic that is relevant to your needs.
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Strengths
- Choosing a Career
- Developing Academic Excellence in School
- Leadership Development
- Building Effective Teams
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Strong Interest Inventory
- Exploring Choice of a Major
- Exploring Career Options
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Do What You Are
- Clarifying What You Need for a Career to be Satisfying
- Explore Careers to Consider
- Strategies on How to Use Type to Excel in Your Job Search
- Team and Leadership Development
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StrengthsQuest
StrengthsQuest measures the presence of talent in 34 areas. This assessment points to your greatest talents and potential strengths.
The results given will be a description of your 5 Signature Talents. Attending the assessment session will enable you to integrate
and understand how to utilize this information.
Cost: $15.00
Time: 30 minutes
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Strong Interest Inventory (SII)
SII is an elaborate online assessment that codes occupational interests based on personal likes and dislikes of activities,
occupations, academic courses and people.
Cost: $10.00
Time: 1 hour
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Do What You Are
This inventory assesses one's MBTI type through situational narratives with which college students can readily identify. This is a
more holistic way to look at theory. The companion "Do What You Are" book explores careers in a variety of fields as well as issues
a student may have in planning his or her career.
Cost: $6.00
Time: 45 minutes
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Choose 1, 2 or 3 assessments (Strengths, SII, DWYA)
- 1 assessment can be completed in 1-2 hours on one night
- 2 assessments can be completed in 2 hours on one night OR 1-2 hour sessions for 2 nights
- 3 assessments can be completed in 2 hour sessions for 2 nights OR 3 nights of 1-2 hours each
Learn more about Career Assessments
For further information, please call 303-492-6541 or email ann.piatt@colorado.edu
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