Resources & Services

The Office of Career Services provides students and alumni with a variety of resources and services to achieve career success. We can help you to make career choices, to develop and to refine your job search skills and to gain entry into the job market.

• Alumni Mentor Program
  
  We maintain a list of alumni mentors who are willing to discuss career information with you or answer your career-related questions by e-mail. See a career adviser on your campus for more information.

• Career Assessment Instruments

  We offer career assessment instruments to gather information about your interests, aptitudes, values, skills, etc., to facilitate your career decision making. Career assessment is an on-going process and series of choices over a period of time. These tools can help you explore choices and create career plans.

• Self Directed Search: Self-administered paper and pencil instrument that helps your find occupations best suited to your interests and skills. Provides numerical score in six Holland Codes (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional).

• Career Key: Self-administered instrument that assesses your answers based on six Holland Codes and directs you to occupational information. Available only online. www.ncsu.edu/careerkey

• O*NET Interest Profiler: Self-administered paper and pencil career exploration tool to help you discover the type of work activities and occupations you would like and find exciting. It measures occupational interests according to six Holland Codes. Companion occupational information is available on O*NET website.

• O*NET Work Importance Locator: Self-administered board career exploration tool to help you pinpoint what is important to you on a job. It will help you identify occupations that you may find satisfying based on the similarity of your work values and the characteristics of the occupation. It measures six types of work values (achievement, independence, recognition, relationships, support and working conditions).

• Strong Interest Inventory: A paper and pencil assessment tool measuring your interests in a broad range of occupations, work activities, leisure activities, and school subjects. Machine scoring is based on Occupational Scales, Basic Interest Scales and Personal Style Scales.

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