Explore your values, interests, and skills to discover which careers are aligned with your strengths and unique talents.
Career Assessments
Career assessments are a way for you to better understand yourself and serve as the foundation of your career planning. Taking a career assessment will enable you to explore your values, personality preferences, interests, and skills to discover which careers are aligned with your strengths and unique talents. We offer the following assessments:
Focus2
- Make sure to review our quick video on How to Use Focus2
- For the passcode and instructions, view the Focus2 Getting Started Guide (PDF, 249K)
- To get an interpretation of your results as they relate to your career, you can schedule an appointment with a career counselor through Handshake - Career Counseling Appointments
Career OneStop & ONET
- Career OneStop Instructions (PDF, 375KB)
- Browse CareerOneStop’s video collection to learn about careers, industries, skills and abilities, or work options and education levels.
- ONET Online Skills Search Instructions (PDF, 549KB)
- The Skills Search function is designed to help you use your skill set to identify occupations for further exploration.
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
MBTI is a personality inventory utilized to identify unique individual strengths. Understanding characteristics unique to each personality type provides insight on how they influence an individual's way of communicating and interacting with others. Schedule an appointmentwith our Certified Career Counselors to take the MBTI assessment and interpret results.
- Descriptions of MBTI Personality Profiles:
- Truity
- Personality Page
- 16 Personalities (free MBTI-like assessment)
Exploring Majors
Researching College Majors
- College Majors 101
College Majors 101 is an education resource dedicated to one purpose and one purpose only, to teach students about different college majors in depth so that they can make more informed college and career choices.
Candid Career
Candid Career is an online video library available 24/7 with thousands of 1–2 minute video interviews with professionals in a wide variety of careers. Interviewees share insights about their job, including the education, training, skills, aptitudes, and experience necessary to get hired. Hear from industry professionals giving advice on specific topics such as resume writing, interviewing, networking, career fairs, internships, grad school, and much more! You can search videos by industry, career title, major, company, city or state, or advice topic.
Quintessential Careers is a career, job, and college site, offering comprehensive free expert career and job-hunting advice as well as links to other job sites. Special sections for teens, college students, and all other job-seekers make this site a comprehensive resource.
Exploring Majors
- Search or browse through 900+ different careers! Read career profiles, job descriptions, educational requirements, and career outlook information. Find out what kind of salary to expect, watch short videos, and even learn about the types of people that typically go into each career.
- To explore more detailed information, visit Myplan.com & College Majors 101
- To explore more detailed information, visit Myplan.com & College Majors 101
- Utilize the What Can I Do With This Major? resource to see a list of 80 majors outlined on the site. Click on any major title to access information and links. The information outlines common career areas students enter with this major, typical employers that hire students in this field and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities. Understand that the areas and websites are representative of typical career paths associated with each major and are not an exhaustive list.
- If you have issues with the website, please sign into your myCI and try again
CSUCI Academic Advising Center
The Academic Advising Center offers new student orientation, mandatory freshman advising, and advising on General Education and graduation requirements for all students.
View a list of CSU Channel Islands Academic Programs. Academic advisors in each department are available to answer any questions you might have and provide you more information about the major requirements.
Workplace Values
"People expect to achieve certain ideals from their jobs, employers, and careers. These workplace values, concepts, and ideas that you hold dear have a direct impact on your satisfaction with your job, with your career, and even with your life. When you understand the values you cherish most highly, you can make an evaluation about whether your current employer (or a prospective employer) supports those values."
Diversity & Inclusion Career Resources
It is important to acknowledge that individuals hold multiple,overlapping identities which influence the types of challenges minoritized populations will face in their career journeys. With this in mind, you are welcome and encouraged to explore the resources for any of the populations listed on our Diversity & Inclusion webpage
Tell Your Story
Now that you have a better idea of what your skills, strengths, and values are, you can begin a productive and proactive job search. But first, review your application materials to reflect the new things you have discovered about yourself.
Resumes & Cover Letters
A resume and cover letter is often your first impression to an employer and you want the impression to be outstanding. See resume resources for information on how to develop a strong resume, cover letter, professional reference sheet, and thank you letter. Not sure how to get started? Looking for feedback on your resume and cover letter? We are here to help! Please Schedule an appointment or contact us at career.services@csuci.edu.
LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn is a social networking tool that allows you to strengthen and increase your network of professional contacts. You can also use LinkedIn to research employers, career fields, industry contacts, and job leads. Many employers and recruitment agencies use LinkedIn to find candidates for open positions.
With LinkedIn, you can also watch videos and get certifications through LinkedIn Learning which is free for students! Sign into your myCI and click on the LinkedIn Learning box to get started.
- LinkedIn: How to Make a Great LinkedIn Profile (video)