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The career decision making process includes four main sections that each contain several ideas and suggestions that will help you attain your goals.

Step 1: Self awareness

Exploring your values, interest and skills can provide you with insight essential to your career exploration and job search. Online assessments are available through Career & Employment Services and also in the Counseling Department.

Step 2: Researching options

After having a better idea of who you are, you can begin to research options that surfaced through your self exploration. This is where you can learn more about majors or career fields including specific schools, salary and job outlook information, working conditions, required education and more. By using a variety of resources including Eureka, taking a Career Class, conducting informational interviews, and meeting with a Counselor, you can begin to narrow down the options to get you closer to your goal.

Step 3: Setting goals

Setting goals is an important step to reaching your academic and professional hopes. The key to setting goals is to keep them specific, realistic, attainable, time specific and to write them down. Consider both short-term and long term goals and the specific steps needed to get to each. In addition, considering potential obstacles to those steps and what you will do to overcome them is also important.

Step 4: Searching for a job

This final step is often the step that everyone thinks of when it comes to careers: the job search. It is here that you should have your resume and cover letter critiques, practice interviewing, utilize online job search tools, participate in networking and prepare yourself for salary negotiations and accepting jobs.

Knowing who you are and what you like to do...knowing the wide range of working environments...planning your education and training...these are the steps that will ensure your success!

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