Careers Now! Career Exploration Guide  

PVCC Career Counseling Services

For those undecided about their future careers or for those interested in learning more about their career development and decision making, Career Services offers individual career counseling, career/self assessment inventories to match your interests and personality with appropriate-fitting careers, small group workshops, and career development courses in career/life planning and in resume-writing. Please call (602) 787-6540 for more information or to schedule an appointment with a counselor; one hour appointments are available for career assessments, investigating careers, and making career decisions. You are also cordially invited to drop by the Counseling and Personal Development offices located in room B177.

PVCC offers several for-credit Counseling and Professional Development courses designed to assist students in exploring career pathways:

The career planning process involves the following steps. They are meant to be completed in sequence for best results:

Step 1: Self Assessment. Find out who you are--your strengths, interests, and values.  Then map this information to those "top 10/20" careers and occupations providing the most overlap.

Step 2: Explore Career Options.  Use Library and Internet resources to learn about your "top 10/20", how they compare against trends in the field, the educational requirements, salary expectations, and other key information.

Step 3: Decision Making.  Using one of our suggested decision-making tools, identify from those "top 10/20" the 3-5 career options that you are most interested in.  Then learn techniques for even deeper research into these areas including educational pathways.  You will emerge with a Plan of Action to turn your career vision into a reality!

Step 4:  Job Search & Development. Now that you've isolated your top career interests, use these resources to identify available jobs in your selected field(s) and the interviewing and resume writing skills needed to get hired.

If you want to explore further, look at the resources available on the Additional Resources, Career Exploration Activites, and Fast Facts tabs.  And remember, PVCC Counseling Services can help!

If you need help using any of the Library resources please contact:

Kande Mickelsen

Contact Info:
PVC Library
E-Building, Office E115
(602) 787-6691
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The Career Explorations LibGuide is brought to you by Sheila Afnan-Manns and Jonathan Barber in collaboration with Counseling Faculty Jim Rubin, Marianne Auten and Fred Wieck.