Career Planning and Testing

What is Career Planning and Testing?

Career Services assists students in assessing their skills, interests, and values along with their career and academic options. Career Services works to help students learn how these things interact in making positive career and academic decisions:

Services are offered to full-time, Oxford campus Miami Students and available on a walk-in basis with the exception of career advising appointments.

What is Career Planning?

Most people will have multiple careers over the course of their lives. Career planning is the life-long process of acquiring and using information about yourself to make career and educational decisions. This is done in an attempt to increase satisfaction with career as well as with life in general. College is an ideal time for students to really begin to focus on career planning.

How Do I Start the Career Planning Process?

Self-assessment is an essential step for everyone, and is often the first step. It involves looking at various aspects of who you are including your skills, values, and interests. Because interests, skills, and values change throughout your life, self-assessment is a constantly evolving and continual process.

How Will Learning About Myself Help Me to Find a Career/Major?

Career planning is a process that involves what we call a feedback loop. The loop includes:

Self-Information: information about your interests, abilities, values, personality
World-of-Work Information: information about jobs, educational experiences (i.e., majors), career fields

As you learn about yourself, you will identify careers that might be a good fit for you. By exploring and researching these careers, you will learn more about what you like and don’t like. This will in turn help you further narrow your career search and bring you closer to clarifying your career path.