Embrace the Future
Your life. Your plans.
Welcome to the Hallettsville High School Career Center, where high school students can begin planning their future NOW! Begin with the "Interest and Skills" section to discover what career you might be suited for. Then, decide which path is right for you: trade, military, or college. Each section offers information and numerous resources to help you plan for your future career NOW!
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!
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.
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