Office of Career Services

Career Services offers several assessment programs to Georgia Southern students that evaluate the student's interests, skills, and values and match them to careers best suited to their personality. A Career Advisor is available to interpret the results of the assessment with the student and assist students in making educated career decisions. Please call our office at 912-681-5197 or email us to schedule an appointment or instructions to take assessments online provided Career Services.

The following assessments are available on campus, in most cases free of charge to students.

Note: * Indicates a required consultation.

	FOCUS provides students, adults in career transition, and those planning for a retirement vocation with personalized career and educational planning. It has been used in career service centers nationwide for over 10 years. Self assessment tools guide you through the career planning process that first helps you broaden your horizons, and then, narrow down your occupational and educational choices.
Available through: Career Services
	The Georgia Career Information Center, through its Georgia Career Information System (GCIS), provides current and accurate occupational and educational information to schools and agencies throughout Georgia in order to help young people and adults make informed career choices.
Available through: Career Services, Counseling and Career Development Center
	Research-based assessments of career-relevant interests, abilities, and job values help individuals consider career options that are a good match for them. ACT's World-of-Work Map organizes occupations into six clusters, parallel to Holland's Hexagon, to help users focus on preparing for career options that fit them best.
Available through: Counseling and Career Development Center
	The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® personality assessment tool is a written instrument that "indicates" a person's preferences. The four preferences result in a person's psychological type, sometimes called personality type. Awareness of preferences helps people understand and value others who think and act quite differently.
Available through: Career Services, Counseling and Career Development Center
	Whether you are looking for a college major, beginning a job search, or thinking about a career change, the SDS will provide valuable career information. Reports contain: a description of each of the 6 RIASEC types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional); RIASEC types that most closely match your interests; an explanation of how you can use your code in your individual career planning; a list of the occupations, fields of study, and leisure activities that are consistent with your code; and next steps for you to follow in your career exploration and decision-making process
Available through: Career Services, Counseling and Career Development Center
	The Strong Interest Inventory measures your interests in a broad range of occupations, work activities, leisure activities, and school subjects and is effective in assisting you to determine your best career path.The inventory also measures interest in careers requiring advanced technical or college training. Three increasingly more detailed levels of Holland coding is provided, including 6 General Occupational Themes, 26 Basic Interest Scales and 109 Occupational Scales.
Available through: Career Services, Counseling and Career Development Center