What are career assessments?
Career assessments are the process of identifying your individual skills, personality, interests and values. • Value: Something intrinsically valuable or desirable (sought material). A value is anything to which a person gives worth, merit or usefulness. Values give direction, without them life becomes aimless – without commitment or meaning. • Interest: A feeling that accompanies or causes special attention to an object or class of objects. Extracurricular Activities…Athletics…Community Service….Greek Life … Music…Leadership Opportunities…. Theater…Clubs…Art • Personality: The characteristics that distinguish an individual. A totality of an individual’s behavioral and emotional characteristics. • Skill: The ability to use one’s knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance. A skill is simply any ability to do something whether it is recently acquired or ability you have had for years. Skills can be things you do only with great difficulty or they can be
