Looking for a career? We can help!

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
To register, call (630) 466-7900, ext. 2361

CHOOSING A MAJOR
This two-hour workshop includes group discussion, activities and self-assessment to help individuals match their interests and educational goals with possible majors.

CAREER TRANSITIONS
Activities and assessments designed to assist those looking to re-enter the workforce or change careers.

PDV 131 Strategies for Career Exploration (1 semester hour)
A career exploration course designed to help people make career decisions based on in-depth personal assessment including career interests, personality type and values inventories.

PDV 136 Employment Strategies (1 semester hour)
A career course designed to help students with the job-search process. Students have the opportunity to review career literature and self-assessment techniques, write a resume and practice interviewing skills. Students also have the opportunity to learn and practice job-seeking skills.

PDV 140 Challenge and Change in Career/Life Planning (3 semester hours)
A personal growth course that assists students in the career selection process. Topics include re-examining value systems and choice of lifestyles, decision-making, risk-taking behaviors, career resources and job-seeking skills.

The Counseling Department at Waubonsee Community College is staffed with trained and caring counselors who can assist those who are in the career exploration process with interpretation of assessments as well as guidance in choosing appropriate majors and occupations. Or perhaps what is needed is simply to begin to talk about the future, and bounce around a few ideas. The Counseling Department is a great place to start!

Call the Sugar Grove campus at 630-466-7900 ext.2361 or the Aurora Campus at 630-801-7900 ext.4183.

Have you ever felt unsure about the direction your life should take? Taking one of these inventories can help you to identify general areas of career interests as well as specific activities and occupations that you might want to explore.

• Strong Interest Inventory
  Fee: $16.00
• Campbell Interest Inventory
  Fee: $10.00
• Self-Directed Search
  Fee: Free, also available in Spanish
• Card Sort
  Fee: Free, also available in Spanish

Learn more about your own personality type and how you relate to others! Are you an introvert or extrovert? Do procrastinators annoy you or are you one of them? Discover the career fields that are best suited to your personal style, and increase awareness of your individual strengths.

• Myers Briggs Type Inventory
  Fee: $16.00 Combined with Strong Interest Inventory: $36.00

Your beliefs and priorities can weigh heavily in the career exploration process. We offer ways to clarify your value system, and work with the results to identify satisfying career choices.

• Values Exercises
  Fee: Free

To help you articulate and identify the skills you would like to use and develop.

• SkillScan Card Sort
  Fee: Free

A full collection of books is available to students, ranging from resources on life planning, to interview strategies, to forecasting the next “hot careers”.