Freshmen

Career Exploration Activities

Explore potential careers on your own:

Take a brief online interest inventory:

Learn more about your "Holland Code" and how your personality type can be used to investigate career options:

Use your "Holland Code" (3 letters) from the "O*NET Interest Profiler" and the "Know Your Personality Type" activity to match your interests with careers:

Career Interviews

Click here to read a variety of local employee interviews about their career. One thing you'll notice is that many of their stories include a chance encounter or unexpected event that led to a career opportunity. Many of them also mention the importance of role models and job shadowing experiences.

Naviance Student Activities

  • log into Naviance Student
  • take the Career Interest Profiler assessment
  • take the Career Cluster Finder assessment
  • create a multi-year plan to draft your future high school courses
  • research colleges you're interested in
  • explore careers, career clusters, and career pathways
  • watch "Road Trip Nation" videos of people in their careers
  • update your Activities Record (in upper right corner, go to About Me, My Stuff, My Surveys, Activities Record)
RCPS Electives