About Learning Communities | Learning Community Meeting Dates | Facilitator Meeting Dates | Cyber Camp

BHHS COUNSELING DEPARTMENT CAREER INVENTORY: A Web Quest for Sophomores

• Introduction
• Purpose
• Process
• Interest Finder Quiz
• Assess Yourself
• College Board Career Questionnaire
• Career Inventory Document
• Top Occupations
• Conclusion

The kind of career you will pursue will influence your life in many ways.  The place you live, the schedule you live by, your hobbies, pastimes, friends, your sense of security, your political opinions, the things you read, and even your style of dress all depends on your career.  Therefore, it is important that you prepare for a career by CHOICE and not by chance.  You do not have to decide exactly what you want to do today, but you should be gaining experience and education to help you find the college and occupation that is best suited to you.  This Web Quest is an activity which will help you through the early stage of this process.

• Assess your aptitudes, skills, personality and possible careers.
• Explore some careers in depth.
• Meet with your counselor to learn what resources are available to you in the Counseling Center.
• Use the information gathered as a basis for your initial college search.

1) The Interest Finder Quiz.
        http://www.myfuture.com/secondary/career/ch_interestquiz.html

• To make a good decision about a future career, it helps to know what type of work you enjoy doing.
• Should I go to college or look for a job? If I try to find a job, what kind of job should it be? How do I find what jobs are best for me?

2) "Assess Yourself" at Career Zone.
        http://www.explore.cornell.edu/newcareerzone/assessment/

Use your results from the Interest Finder Quiz (discovering your two personality types - Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) to "Assess Yourself" at Career Zone.  Be sure to follow the instructions CAREFULLY.

3) After completing the Career Zone, take the College Board Career Questionnaire. Your top 10 careers will be listed for your consideration.

4) Record your findings on the CAREER INVENTORY DOCUMENT provided to you by your Guidance Counselor.

5) Investigate the TOP OCCUPATIONS of the future.  Do any of them match your work types?  Use the following links:

Return to top of page

CONGRATULATIONS!  You have just completed the first step in a life-long process of career analysis.  You will use your findings to work with your Guidance Counselor and begin your college and career search.