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Many
prospective and current students need some form of career
guidance as they plan for a successful future. The
Career Center at York Technical College is located within
the Admissions Department. Here, our Admissions
Counselors have the experience and training necessary to
assist you as you navigate through the career
decision-making process. We utilize several different
types of career counseling tools, including computerized
guidance systems and paper-and-pencil assessments.
Your Admissions Counselor will talk with you in detail about
your interests and goals, and then will determine which
career counseling instrument will be best suited for your
particular needs.
Our computerized
career assessment tools consists of SCOIS.NET and the
Kuder Career Planning System. SCOIS
stands for South Carolina Occupational
Information System, and it includes a brief
self-assessment that helps you consider your interests and
how they relate to various careers. It also contains
detailed information and videos to help you learn more about
hundreds of occupations.
The Kuder Career Planning System is an in-depth
career guidance tool that contains three assessments.
The first is an interest inventory that matches your
interests with career clusters. The second is a
self-reported skills assessment, in which you evaluate and
self-report your own strengths and weaknesses. The
third is a work values assessment, in which you consider
what is important to you in your "ideal" job - is it money,
or flexibility, or prestige, or creativity? Kuder
helps you tie all of this information about yourself
together to help you make a well-informed career decision.
It also contains detailed occupational information to help
you research those careers of most interest to you.
In addition to our computerized
guidance assessment,
we also offer the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) personality inventory and the COPS
interest inventory. These are paper-and-pencil assessments
that many students find helpful as well.
For more information about the Career Center,
please call the Admissions office at 803.327.8008 or
1.800.922.TECH (SC only). For
KUDER statistics.
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