Goals

• Begin the process of self-awareness of your transferable skills, interests, and values.
• Explore and define leadership potential.
• Enhance positive work attitudes and skills.

Recommended Activities

• Participate in a self-assessment workshop and meet with a career counselor to identify past accomplishments, transferable skills, abilities, interests, and life values.
• Take an interest or personal style inventory such as the STRONG Inventory or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).  Meet with a counselor first to determine which inventory would be best for your needs.  Career Center will provide access information. These inventories can help you identify how your interests and personality fit with different careers.  Meet with a counselor to go over the results.
  
• Get acquainted with Career Center staff members and resources through a tour of the Career Center. Drop in hours are available each afternoon for your convenience.
• Build skills and define your own style of leadership through curricular, co-curricular, internships, service learning, and volunteer work.
• Learn more about different kinds of work and life/work balance by talking with parents, friends, and faculty members. The Career Center also sponsors career talks and panels featuring Carleton alumni in a variety of different fields.
• Gather first-hand knowledge about specific jobs by participating in an Externship (shadowing an alum).  See Brent Nystrom at the Career Center for more information about the program.
• Consider taking summer or online courses in accounting if you are interested in nonprofit or business management. Summer is also a good time to take foundation courses such as speech, economics, computers, or statistics.

More information and next steps to identify your interests