Career Match Exercise

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1 Career Match Exercise Your Career Matches are based on your unique assessment results. jobzology uses a patent-pending predictive algorithm to show you careers that align with your interests and values. This means that your recommended careers will be jobs that are more likely to be a good fit based on whether or not you would enjoy that career and find it fulfilling. To begin exploring your career matches, go to jobzology.uncc.edu and login to your account Click on the Assessments tab to view your results. Next, click on Explore Career Matches in the top right to begin exploring various career options. **If you have not completed your interests and values assessments, the Explore Career Matches function will not be available. You must complete your interests and values assessments to move forward. You will be taken to your career matches page where you can explore your fit to hundreds of jobs. You will have multiple pages of results, starting with your very strong matches, to strong, good, fair, and finally your weak matches. Your stronger results are always shown first with you weaker matches on the last few pages

2 Each tile shows a Title, Description, Subject Area, and most importantly, your Match Strength. Click on any career tile to learn more detailed information about that career pathway. The detailed description includes other job titles associated with this career (you might be more familiar with some of these titles), what a day-in-the-life looks like for this position, as well as what knowledge, skills, and abilities you must develop to pursue this career. On the right side of the page, you will find information about average salary, job outlook, the education requirements for the job in this career. You can also explore other related fields from this page as well.

3 Research and complete the following worksheet for 4 careers you find interesting.

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5 Occupations What themes do you notice? Do they all focus on a particular thing? Same educational suggestions?

6 Career Match Part 2: Discover New Career Options Clear/Backspace the Search Careers box and any other filters you may have applied so that all of your original job matches reappear. Narrow your results by checking the Degree option boxes on the left column of the page Scroll through all of your Very Strong and Strong career matches. You can filter your results to only display very strong and strong matches by selecting those filters on the left. o Be sure to scroll to the bottom of each page to view all career tiles. o As you read your Very Strong and Strong matches, stop to read any careers that you are unfamiliar with. If the description is interesting or unclear to you, click the career to read the detailed description. Below, list three careers (from your Very Strong, and Strong matches) that you had not previously considered. Include the subject area for that career, as well. Job/Career Name Subject Area Alternative Job Titles Brief Description Click on each of these jobs and write down the alternate job titles on the more detailed job description page. You might be more familiar with one of those job titles. After reading the more detailed job description write your own brief description of this career or any facts about it that were interesting to you.

7 Career Match Exercise Part 3 Interested in learning more about these careers? Schedule an appointment with your Career Advisor to learn explore your results more, explore informational interviewing and Job Shadowing options. o Click the Set Up Appointment button to set up an appointment in Hire A Niner with a Career Advisor. You can find this button on the Assessments and My Journey pages shown below.