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Career Planning

Compass

Career Readiness Competencies – (skills to develop while in school)

Suggested Decision-Making Questions

Occupational Information and Career Research

View occupational and career research resources
  • (career information, employer database, and Oregon labor market information)
  • Oregon Career Information System – CIS (career and education information, career/self-assessment exercises)
    Important: You must create a portfolio in order to save your assessment results.
  • PCC students – Access via the MyPCC “My Courses” tab. In the Plan My Career channel, click on Oregon CIS
    • Accessing CIS outside of MyPCC Portal: Go to . On the right side, click “Don’t have an account? Sign up here”. Enter school username: portcomcol and school password: dunk.purse. Enter your personal info and create a unique username and password.
    • To access your personal account in the future from off campus: Go to and enter your username and password.
  • DOL Dept. of Labor
    • O*NET has multiple “doors” to accessǰ
    • New mobile-friendly O*NET OnLine: Use your phone or tablet to visit the new mobile-friendly! Quickly find, search, or browse across 900+ occupations based on your career exploration or job analysis needs. Then learn about the requirements, characteristics, and available opportunities for your selected occupation. Updated features include:

      The new site also provides easy access to other O*NET sites, including theand the My Next Move websites (,,).

    • DOL sites for Career Planning and Occupational Research:
  • – Tool for linking to Internet Career Planning Sites or
  • – a variety of career exploration tools: mostly free self-assessment (not free), connecting careers to majors
  • Career informational interviews stories.
  • – UK-based but good career info

Labor Market Information

Self Exploration – Assessments

See career assessments
Values/Strengths
Miscellaneous

 

Personality Assessments – similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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  • Additional Information about
  • is also a common personality inventory

Additional Resources

College Choice Information

  • US Dept of Ed.
  • US Dept. of Ed.