Career Exploration Paper

Students will submit a paper that integrates the following information into a coherent, clearly written explanation of your career exploration to this point. Students will include in their paper:

1. Assessments. Discussion of the use of personality, interest, and values assessments in making career decisions in general, and of what your individualized results on these assessments indicate about your possible career options. Include in your discussion the results from your assessments. MBTI: State your MBTI Type. Discuss if you agree or disagree with the assessment and why. If you disagree, which type do you think is more descriptive of your personality type. Self‐Directed Search: State your Summary Code. Discuss what you agree or disagree with the assessment and why. Values Survey and Work Values: State your Top Three Personal Values and your Top Three Work Values. Discuss why these values are important to you.

- MBTI test: ESTJ

- Self-Directed Search: ESC

- Values survey and work values: attached

2. Career Options. Based on your analyses of the career assessments listed above, list two career options that might be interesting to you. Look up the career options you have developed on O*Net On‐Line and the Occupations Outlook Handbook.

O*Net On-Line: ESC

3. College Major. Explore which college majors might be appropriate for your areas of interest, and include in the paper a short discussion about which majors or careers you are considering.

Majors: Finance and Supply Chain Management

The paper must be typewritten, double‐spaced, with subheadings for each subsection (bold items in the description above). Even though this assignment includes 4 sections, it is one essay. Be sure you write it so that it is cohesive and flows from section to section. Upload your paper, as a .pdf file or Word .doc(x), to the Career Exploration Paper folder on Dropbox on BeachBoard before the due date. No Title Page required.