Career Counseling: Assessments & Exploration
Career Counseling
Confidential career advising is available to assist you with self-assessment, career exploration, decision making, and job preparation. Sign up for an appointment on Handshake.
Learn More About Yourself Through Career Assessments
Career assessments can help you identify your unique interests, strengths, personality, and values. While no test will provide you with definitive answers about what job or career to pursue, they can be very helpful as part of a general self-analysis or can confirm your chosen direction. The following assessments are free of charge and will generate detailed reports that you will review with the career counselor. Contact Career Services for links and access codes to the below instruments, or see some resources you can access without codes.
MB Strengths Finder
Discover what you naturally do best, learn how to develop your greatest talents into strengths, and use your personalized results and reports to maximize your potential through this talent assessment
Strong Interest Inventory
Gain insight into your interests to help you consider potential careers, further education, and workplace motivation.
MB Type Indicator
Understand your own value and individual differences in directing and receiving energy, take in information, make decisions, and approach the world.
Further Exercises To Explore Yourself
There are also a number of exercises to help you understand yourself better. You can engage in self-exploration to identify your strengths and values. Download the following exercises, work through them at your own pace and discuss your findings with your peers.
Career Exploration Programs and Websites
- Type Focus is an online career exploration program that helps you discover how personal preference relate to careers. The program also provides comprehensive occupational descriptions in a user-friendly application that you can return to as often as you would like and use at your own pace. To obtain the access code, please contact Career Services.
- What can I do with my degree? See Options with GU-Q Majors to explore the destination of Georgetown University graduates in each major 6 months after graduation, learn the typical skills you will attain and find links to professional bodies and information sources.
- Search LinkedIn, or learn about GU-Q Alumni