Self-Assessment

Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI)
The MBTI was developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs and based on the work of Carl Jung. The MBTI asserts that individuals have a preferred method of how they take in information and how they make decisions. This assessment will help you determine your preferences within four different categories. The MBTI is completed on-line, using access information provided by your career counselor.  You will then meet with your career counselor to interpret your results and relate them to career decisions.

Strong Interest Inventory
The Strong Interest Inventoy is one of the most established and frequently used of all career assessment inventories.  It is based on the career theory of John Holland. He believed that people and work environments could be classified into six different categories: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. His theory states that if people choose careers that match their type (Holland Code), they are more likely to be both satisfied and successful. The Strong is completed on-line, using access information provided by your career counselor.  Once completed, you can make an appointment to review the instrument in our office.

SkillScan Card Sort
The SkillScan Card Sort helps you identify your natural strengths and key transferable skills for use in your career development. It will help you identify occupations that use your desired skills, determine which skills you would like to acquire or further develop, understand how your skills are important to employers, and describe your skills to an employer both on your resume and in an interview.

Career Research

The Career Planning page on our web site has several resources including:

What Can I Do With This Major?
Learn about various career areas within numerous majors, typical employers for each career field, and strategies for breaking into each field, and view related web site links. This program profiles more majors than Centre offers allowing you to cross reference career fields of interest. This information helps you understand what career opportunities you have with a particular major. Access this program by clicking on the above career planning link. Free copies are also available in the Career Services library.

Wetfeet.com
Career Services has partnered with Wetfeet.com to provide a more efficient way to do research. Wetfeet.com profiles industries as well as companies.

Print Resources
Major and occupational information is available in our career library (located in the newly remodeled Davidson Room in Old Carnegie).

Our Career Planning Booklet (available in Career Services) provides you with self-paced exercises and activities to help you assess your interests and skills. Once you have completed these exercises, it is recommended that you review your results with your career counselor.

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Each student is assigned to a career counselor for personalized attention throughout their time at Centre. Students meet with their career counselor at least once a term. Students with last names beginning with A-L are assigned to Natesha Smith. Students with last names beginning with M-Z are assigned to Joy Asher. Career counselors can help with anything career-related including choosing a major; gathering career information; and applying to jobs, internships, and graduate school.

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Our web page includes many useful resources such as:

eRecruiting - an on-line system that enables you to search for jobs (full-time, part-time, and summer) and internships, apply to employers recruiting on campus, and schedule interviews with those employers.

Career Planning (see above for details)

Academic Internships - information on academic credit internships and Centre Internship Plus plus downloadable internship contracts and internship interest forms.

Job Search - information on full-time and summer jobs, international and diversity employment, government jobs, jobs by region and career field, and company and salary/cost of living information.

Graduate School - links to graduate and professional school resources, graduate exam and test prep information, scholarships and financial aid.

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Numerous books (over 450) are available on a 2-day check-out basis.
Click on any of the categories below for a complete listing of books in that section:
Career Planning (major and career information)
Company Directories
Education
Government
Graduate School
How To's (Resume, Interviewing, and Etiquette Information plus Industry-specific Guides)
Internships and Summer Jobs
International Employment
Job Search
Jobs by Locale
Subscriptions to Career Related Resources

Additionally, job and internship vacancy announcements are available in our office (as well as on eRecruiting)

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Internships - Career Services handles all internships, both academic credit and non-credit internships. Available internships are listed on eRecruiting and can be accessed by calling 5283. Centre Internship Plus is also available, on a limited, competitive basis, during the summer and Centre terms.

Externship Program - competitive program in which students are paired with alumni for a 2-3 day shadowing experience during the break between CentreTerm and spring term.

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Job Search, Resume Writing and Interviewing Programs and Special Events

Resume and Cover Letter Critiques

Mock Interviews

eRecruiting (our on-line job posting system) and hard copy vacancy announcements

On-Campus Interviewing

Resume Referrals to Employers

Spotlight Job and Internship Fair - annual job and internships fair sponsored by all of the private colleges and universities in Kentucky. Spotlight 2009 will be held on Tuesday, February 24 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm at the Lexington Center (adjacent to Rupp Arena). Information is dispersed early in the beginning of the calendar year. If you have questions about Spotlight, call Career Services at 238-5283. You can also view employers attending and their current job openings at https://asp.symplicity.com/spotlight/.

Assigned career counselors

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Graduate School Programs and Special Events

Personal Statement Critiques

Print Resources including graduate school, law school, and professional school guides and catalogs; and books on getting into graduate school, writing admissions essays, and financing your graduate education.

On-line Resources including links to graduate, law and professional schools; graduate exams and test preparation; and financial aid and scholarships.

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Career Services offers all the same services to alumni as we do to students. We are happy to help alumni with all of their career needs. Simply call us at (859) 238-5283 or e-mail Joy Asher or Deb Jones.

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