What is career exploration?

Career Exploration is simply learning about various occupations and their "fit" with your unique career preferences, e.g. the skills, interests and values you want satisfied by your career. Engaging in career exploration happens after identifying your career preferences through self-assessment. This website offers multiple skills and interest inventories, then provides different path options based on your results. What does your future hold?

What is your ideal career?

Researcher Frank Parson developed the Trait and Factor theory that entails three actions to find a career that is best suited for an individual (O'Brien, 2001).

1. Examine your personality traits, interests, and abilties.

2. Research the job to inventory the needed character traits.

3. Analyze the personality traits of yourself against the job.

Click the button below to learn about your personality and what careers might match you best!

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Texas Reality Check

Will you be able to afford the lifestyle you want?

It's difficult to predict the future, but it's never too early to start planning for it. Texas Reality Check will show you how much your living expenses will cost, and the amount of money you will need to earn to pay for them.

Reality Check

Interest and Abilities Tests

It's never too early to begin thinking of your future career. What will it be? A four-year university? A two-year trade school? Maybe a certificate? Regardless of your path, the first step is to explore your abilities, interests, skills, and values. This site will help you begin planning your future, today.

What are your interests?

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