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Career Assessment

Learn More About Yourself and Your Options . . .

Career Assessment is a process to aid you in zeroing in on career options and a major that is right for you. Career Services offers several assessment options that focus on assessing your interests and abilities.  You'll learn more about yourself, your options, and what careers are best suited for you.  

FOCUS 2 - A Career and Educational Planning System 

FOCUS is an internet-based program offering individual assessments that can help you decide on a career, major or graduate program that is right for you.  It provides information about salaries, hundreds of occupations, and job market trends.

FOCUS will help you:

  • Use the assessments to learn about yourself and find occupations that fit you
    FOCUS will suggest job families, and identify occupations based on your assessment
  • Plan your education
    Cross reference majors and occupations, find schools and scholarship information
  • Plan for work
    Information on  job boards, internship opportunities, and website links

Access FOCUS

BSU Students
Log into MyBSU and click "Focus" in the left navigation.

Prospective Students
If you are not currently a BSU student, contact our office at 218-755-2038 or 1-800-657-3726 for instructions on how to access Focus.

StrengthsQuest

Strengths Quest - Developed by the Gallup Organization, StrengthsQuest uses StrengthsFinder assessment to assess your innate top five talents and offers online resources to assist student in using their talents in career exploration.  All students who enroll in First Year Experience Seminar will participate in StrengthsQuest and be given the opportunity to meet with a career counselor to interpret the results. 

Self Directed Search

If you have not decided on a major the Self Directed Search (SDS) booklet will help you learn about yourself, your job choices and your career.   Most students find that completing the Self Directed Search is helpful and fun.  The Self Directed Search is based on the premise that most people can be loosely classified into six different groups (through codes developed by John Holland).  These groups are six different personality types labeled:

  • Realistic
  • Investigative
  • Artistic
  • Social
  • Enterprising
  • Conventional

Stop in to Career Services to take the Self Directed Search to see which category you fall into, and to determine jobs for you to consider for your career. 

Review Your Results

Career Services offers individual appointments with a Career Counselor to review the DISCOVER and Self Directed Search results in more detail. Contact us to set up an appointment either by calling 218-755-2038 or email career@bemidjistate.edu.