What You Will Find and What You Can Do in the Career Center

Here's what you can do in the Career Center:

• Discover which types of careers suit your personality by completing the Career Self-Assessment
• Determine which careers map to your interests by using the Career Matching Assistant
• Explore a wide range of careers in the List of Careers
• Store and track the results of your career exploration in your MyMentor Careers

Reasons to Use CollegeforTN.org and the Career Center

Research shows that people are happier if they make concrete progress toward their goals. The CollegeforTN.org Career Center is designed with that progress in mind. Its components can help you discover your dreams as well as determine, pursue, and attain your goals.

General Career Training Information

There are many ways to train for a career. Some careers require education beyond high school. Other careers allow for on-the-job training. Below is a quick guide to the different types of training that are required for various careers.

• On-the-job training: Short-term to medium-term training (less than one year), or long-term training (more than one year of coursework and training which might need to be accomplished on your own time, e.g., you might need to attend night school while employed full time during the day)
• Postsecondary vocational training: One to two years of training beyond high school (e.g., non-college level business school, non-college level nursing school, and all branches of the military)
• Associate's degree: At least two years of education beyond high school (or GED)
• Bachelor's degree: At least four years of education beyond high school (or two years beyond associate's degree)
• Master's degree: At least one to two years of education beyond bachelor's degree
• Doctoral or professional degree: At least two to three years of education beyond bachelor's degree

Choosing a Career

We are provided with a seemingly endless list of careers from which to choose. Because there are so many choices, the decision can seem daunting.

The Career Center module is designed to help you with all aspects of your career decisions, taking into account talents and interests in the Career Self-Assessment, and helping you match these interests to a particular career in the Career Matching Assistant. Once you have a few specific careers in mind, the List of Careers can give you a summary of what those careers entail, what skills and education levels are required in those fields, approximate salary for each career, and schools and majors that can lead you to those careers.