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Career Exploration Tools

Are you unsure of your career direction? UAS has several assessments that are available to all UAS students for free! Still confused? Book an appointment  to talk it through with our Career Services Manager.

Assesments and Resources

  • Answer a few questions about your interests, learn more about your personality traits, and get career matches that are right for you!
  • Career Coach is specific for the state of Alaska. It provides career assessments, education programs, and resources for exploration.
  • Use What You Can Do with Your Major to view typical career areas and types of employers that hire in the field you are studying, as well as strategies to make you a more marketable candidate. Continue your research through the websites provided towards the bottom of each page.

Note: you must use the link on this page to access the site for free.

Find out what your Personality Type is and why you (or your siblings, roommate, boss, etc.) exhibit certain behaviors/tendencies with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

  • You will gain insight into how you direct and receive energy, take in information, decide and come to conclusions, and approach the outside world.
  • Your natural preferences in these four areas sort you into one of 16 distinct MBTI personality types.
  • The insight you gain into yourself will allow you to better understand and value individual differences and how you are uniquely suited to some careers, and less to others.
  • Understanding these types gives you insight that you can use to enhance your professional and personal relationships, and inform your exploration of careers.

 

  • O*NET is a unique, powerful source for continually updated occupational information and labor market research. By using a contemporary, interactive skills-based database and a common language to describe worker skills and attributes, O*NET transforms mountains of data into precise, focused occupational intelligence that anyone can understand easily and efficiently.

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