Career Exploration involves discovering and investigating various career options to determine which align with one's interests, skills, values, and goals. It involves researching different industries, occupations, and roles to better understand what each entails and what opportunities are available.
Missouri Connections
The Interest Profiler helps you identify your interests and how they relate to careers you want to explore. Connecting interests to careers is one way to find a career you will enjoy!
Career clusters are one way to group career choices. Careers with common features are in the same cluster. Clusters can be used during career exploration to find your best career match.
Work Importance Locator helps you find careers that match your work values. Work values include achievement, work environment, and work relationships. Working in a place that matches your values will make your career more satisfying.
The Workplace Employability Skills Self-Survey can help you evaluate your employability skills. Employability skills include professionalism, collaboration, and ethical practices, which employers look for when hiring.
For the Interest Profiler, Career Cluster Inventory, Workplace Importance/Values survey, and Work Employability Skills survey, log into your Missouri Connections account and click the Self-Surveys tab.
If you need your login information for Missouri Connections, please contact Mrs. McAfee.
My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. The site has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 careers.