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Career Decision Making

This document provides guidance on making career decisions. It outlines several steps: 1) Explore your values, interests, and skills to understand yourself, 2) Learn about your educational and career options, and 3) Use what you learn about yourself and your options to engage in decision making and reflection. Completing assessments can help with self-exploration, while resources are available to learn about options and get advice from career advisors. Managing anxiety around decision making is also addressed.

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Career Decision Making

This document provides guidance on making career decisions. It outlines several steps: 1) Explore your values, interests, and skills to understand yourself, 2) Learn about your educational and career options, and 3) Use what you learn about yourself and your options to engage in decision making and reflection. Completing assessments can help with self-exploration, while resources are available to learn about options and get advice from career advisors. Managing anxiety around decision making is also addressed.

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Career Decision Making

The first step to solving a career problem is to bridge the gap between where you are and
where you want to be. Exploring your values, interests, and skills will help you find
educational and career options that match up with your goals. Whether you are choosing a
major, searching for a job, or applying to grad schools, our theory-based services can help
you develop and implement a plan for the future.

Know About Yourself


Knowing what is important to you (your values), what you enjoy (your interests), and what
you do well (your skills) will make it easier for you to make a career decision. Think of
values, interests, and skills as the three legs of a stool. You will sit more comfortably with
your decision if each leg is equally strong. The pyramid below is a simple way to remember
what is important in making career decisions.
Engage in some or all of the activities below to learn more about your values, interests, and
skills:

Use a Computer Assisted Career Guidance System (Choices, SIGI3, or FOCUS2) and
complete an interest, skills, or values assessment by creating a free account.
Complete the Self-Directed Search (SDS) with the help of a Career Advisor at the
Career Center. The SDS is an instrument designed to help you organize information
about your interests and abilities. After you complete the inventory, you will be able
to see how this information about yourself connects to occupations and fields of
study.
Complete the "Module III: Exploring Your Interests, Values, & Skills" activities.

Know About Your Options


Now that you have explored information about yourself, its time to connect that knowledge
to what you have learned about your options. If you have yet to explore your educational or
career options, visit here to get started.

Your Decision Making Process


Once you have a clear understanding of your options and self-knowledge, you can use this
information to reflect on your decision-making process.
You can go through a decision making exercise here

Thinking about Your Decision Making


Have you ever had stage fright before a big performance or experienced butterflies before
giving a presentation? These experiences are a natural reaction to stressful events in your
environment. Similarly, some people become anxious or overwhelmed when thinking about
career decisions they must make.

If you feel unsure about your career decision, a career advisor can help. The Career Thoughts
Inventory (CTI) is an assessment available to you at the Career Center that can help you learn
more about the way you think about your career choices and explore new ways of thinking
about this decision.

To learn more about cognitive information processing (CIP) theory in career service delivery,
visit the FSU Career Center's Center for the Study of Technology in Counseling and
Career Development (Tech Center).

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