Understand Yourself

Knowing who you are and what is important to you is foundational to satisfying decision making.

Identifying Your Values (AKA Your WHY)

When what you do aligns with your values – your gut feelings and fundamental beliefs about what is important and what feels right – you’re much more likely to feel a sense of satisfaction and purpose.  

Try this exercise to consider your WHY.

Leveraging Your Strengths

Research shows that if you lean into your natural strengths to navigate challenges, you’ll be working from a place of positivity.

Identify your strengths and how they are an asset.

Who Do You Think You Are?

People who study and work in environments that are congruent with their personality type are more likely to find success and life satisfaction.

Which personality types sound most like you?

Identify Careers and Majors that Fit Using Focus 2

Explore careers and majors that align with your interests, values, skills, and personality using Focus 2, an online, self-guided, career and education planning system.

Get started with Focus 2.

Powerful Questions to Guide Your Exploration Process

Much about the exploration process is in your control. Knowing yourself and being intentional with your habits and actions can impact your success.

Consider these questions about how you’ll approach your exploration.

Do You Feel Challenged by the Advice to “Follow Your Passion?”

That phrase can be both inspiring and infuriating.

Here’s another way to look at it.

What Do You Know For Sure?

Even as someone who is exploring career possibilities, you probably know more than you think about the life you envision for yourself after graduation.

Consider these questions related to what you picture yourself doing in the future.