The CDC offers individual career counseling and job search advice to help answer your individual questions about your educational and career goals. Talking to a counselor is easy. You may:
• Schedule an appointment. Call our office at (626) 395-6361.
Some specific topics about which students often have questions are:
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resume development
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interview preparation and strategies |
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plant visits |
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offer negotiation |
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individual job search plan |
However, we can also provide information and advice on more general questions, such as:
• Should I go to graduate school?
• Which school is best for me?
• Is there life after Caltech?
• What can I do on a leave of absence?
• What do I want to be when I grow up?
Maybe you still aren't yet clear on what kinds of services we can provide. Go to the following page to see the lists of typical services we can provide: Counseling Descriptions
Another component of career counseling are career assessments. Students taking these instruments will gain a better understanding of themselves. This information should be helpful when making job search and career choices.
The following career instruments are available through an appointment with a career counselor:
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator reports your preferences on four scales. There are two opposite preferences on each scale. The four scales deal with where you like to focus your attention, the way you like to look at things, the way you like to go about deciding things, and how you deal with the outer world.
The people who get the greatest satisfaction at work are those who do what they like--what they naturally enjoy most. Do you get energized being by yourself, or with others? Do you prefer to "play things by ear" or do you need your appointment book nearby? These are just some of the questions that the MBTI can answer, to help aid you in the search for a career that is ideal for you.
The Strong Interest Inventory
The Strong Interest Inventory compares your interests in different areas to a general sample of people employed in a wide variety of occupations.
Interests play a crucial role in job satisfaction. If you don't like working with data, you probably won't be happy as a statistician. Or maybe you like investigative, analytical work, perhaps a career as a chemist might be for you.
The Skills Sort
The Skills Sort allows you to quickly and easily identify the skills which may be central to your career satisfaction and success.
The Values Sort
The Values Sort helps you identify values which may be central to your career satisfaction and success.
What do you value in a career? Is it money and prestige? Or is it creativity, or security? What about the skills that you possess? Which skills would you most like to use in a job? These two card sorts can help you put in perspective what things are important to you in a job.
Know which tests you want to take now? Call us at (626) 395-6361 for an appointment.
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