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Career Exploration and the Self-Directed
Search Workshop
Learn how to use your self-directed search assessment results in your career development. You will receive strategies for gathering occupational information and using COD resources to assist in your job search. $10
To register, visit cod.edu/careerservices and click on Career
Advantage Workshops.
Berg Instructional Center (BIC)
• Tuesday, Jan. 12, 6 to 7:30 p.m. (BIC 3532)
• Wednesday, Jan. 27, 6 to 7:30 p.m. (BIC 3532)
• Thursday, Feb. 18, 6 to 7:30 p.m. (BIC 3532)
• Wednesday, Mar. 16, noon to 1:30 p.m. (BIC 3532)
• Thursday, April 7, 6 to 7:30 p.m. (BIC 3532)
• Tuesday, May 3, noon to 1:30 p.m. (BIC 3532)
• Wednesday, May 25, 6 to 7:30 p.m. (BIC 3532)
Combined Interest and Personality Inventories
Take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Strong Interest Inventory to discover how your personality and interests can guide your career development. $50
To register, go to http://registerblast.com/cod/exam and select Career
Exploration Workshops: Combined Interests and Personality Inventories.
Student Resource Center (SRC)
• Thursday, Jan. 7, 5 to 9:30 p.m. (SRC 3104)
• Wednesday, Feb. 3, 5 to 9:30 p.m. (SRC 3104)
• Tuesday, Mar. 8, 12:30 to 5 p.m. (SRC 3104)
• Monday, April 18, 5 to 9:30 p.m. (SRC 3104)
• Resumé and cover letter assistance to help you make a strong
impression on potential employers.
• Interview coaching to help you present your skills to an employer
and land the position.
• Internship opportunities to gain needed work experience
and the opportunity to explore your major.
• Social media workshops to teach you how to start branding
yourself in a new career.
The Career and College
Information Collection (CCIC) provides information on career development and occupational choices. This multimedia collection assists you in planning your career and employment goals.
My Next Move http://www.mynextmove.org
• Learn more about your career options
with this interactive tool.
• Use the interest assessment to explore
career options.
• Search tasks, skills and salary
information for more than 900 careers.
Illinois Career Information
System (CIS) http://ilcis.inforcareers.org
• This site is for anyone searching for
in-depth career resources. CIS offers
information on occupations,
programs of study and training, as
well as Illinois and national schools.
• Log in as a guest by choosing your
town name from a dropdown list
and adding ZIP code. (You must be an
Illinois resident to use segments of CIS.)
Sigi3 http://services.codlibrary.org/sigi
• Find work values assessments (plus
others for interests, personality and
skills) and information about
hundreds of occupations.
• First time users, create an account
choosing your ID and password. Click
start and fill in only the five areas that
have red headings to the left.
• Click link to occupations of interest
for occupation information, including
values data. See links to professional
organizations under “Find out More.”
O*NET http://www.onetonline.org
• Explore information on more than
1,000 occupations, including work
tasks, skills, abilities, and values.
• From the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
job outcomes and salaries by state
are accessible.