1. Curricular integration of career assessment in first year experience courses
Steven Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Education/Student Development
Northwest Vista College

2. Student development course
Required Course, Suggested First Semester
Career Exploration
Information Literacy
Academic Learning Strategies
Campus Resources
Degree/Transfer Planning

4. Mission
To help students as much as possible make sense of their talents, how they may be optimally applied to the world of work.
To help students create a picture of the most likely future career success – offering them options.
To save time of students, and money of everyone.

5. Career assessment instruments
History
School Counseling (K-12) – Originally (early 1900’s) Career Focused
Same Time as Intelligence Test Development
Person-Environment Fit (Frank Parsons, E.G. Williamson, John Holland)
World War II
Oldest, More Researched
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Strong Interest Inventory

6. structure
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Strong Interest Inventory

7. Assessment and professional titles
MBTI
SII
Common Professions
Feeling
Social
Teaching, Nursing, Helping Professions
Intuition
Artistic
Graphic Design, Game Design, the Arts
Judging
Conventional
Accounting, Nursing
Sensing
Realistic
Engineering, Mechanical
Investigative
STEM, Mathematics
Enterprising
Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing

8. Assessment, professional titles, Academic Strategies
MBTI
SII
Common Professions
Academic Strategy
Feeling
Social
Teaching, Nursing, Helping Professions
Study Groups, Lecture Interaction
Intuition
Artistic
Graphic Design, Game Design, the Arts
Unstructured Notes (Graphics)
Judging
Conventional
Accounting, Nursing
Cornell Notes (Lecture and Text)
Sensing
Realistic
Engineering, Mechanical
Hands-on, YouTube videos
Investigative
STEM, Mathematics
Degrees of Freedom
Enterprising
Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing
Leadership

9. Course/Transfer Planning
FYE Course structure
Career Assessment
Course/Transfer Planning
Academic Strategies
Assessment Instrument, Consultation
Major/Institutional Search, Course Sequencing
Individually Crafted Strategies

10. Your perspective