The CDC offers individual career counseling and job search advice to help answer your individual questions about your educational and career goals. Talking to a counselor is easy. You may:

• Schedule an appointment at any time
• Drop-in for a brief counseling visit.

Some specific topics about which students often have questions are:

• resume development
• interview preparation and strategies
• plant visits
• offer negotiation
• individual job search plan

However, we can also provide information and advice on more general questions, such as:

• Should I go to graduate school? Which school is best for me?
• Is there life after Caltech?
• What can I do on a leave of absence?
• What do I want to be when I grow up?

Another component of career counseling is the Vocational Test Package. Students taking these instruments will gain a better understanding of themselves. This information should be helpful when making job search and career choices.

The following career instruments are available through an appointment with a career counselor.

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator reports your preferences on four scales. There are two opposite preferences on each scale. The four scales deal with where you like to focus your attention, the way you like to look at things, the way you like to go about deciding things, and how you deal with the outer world.
• Personality Type Preference Indicator provides information on personality, cognitive, and interest scales that provides a picture of individual behavior.
• The Strong Interest Inventory compares your interests in different areas to a general sample of people employed in a wide variety of occupations.
• The Skills Sort allows you to quickly and easily identify the skills which may be central to your career satisfaction and success.
• The Values Sort helps you identify values which may be central to your career satisfaction and success.