Stacy Voeller's FYE Major & Career Resources Web Page

Majors:

MSUM's List of Degrees/Majors

From the website Quintessential Careers:

• "Choosing a College Major: How to Chart Your Ideal Path" by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. 

• "What Can I do With a Major in...?" by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. 

• "Career Assessment Tools & Tests:  Help plan your future with these self-assessment and career discovery tests."
  Ansir's 3 Sides of You Self Perception Profiling System

• There are 14 core Styles of ANSIR® strength and 7 categories. What do they mean?
   
  The 14 core ANSIR Styles of strengths are grouped according to keenest intellect: the means by which one knows that something is true and right for them. The seven distinct "truth antennae are."
  

  • Physicals: keenest intellect comes from physical interaction.
  • Instinctives: keenest intellect is through muscular feedback (gut-smarts).
  • Logicals: keenest intellect is by means of rationalization.
  • Emotionals: keenest intellect comes from emotion sensitivity.
  • Practicals : keenest intellect is via solution-determination.
  • Intuitives: keenest intellect comes from emotion-based guidance.
  • Spiritualists: keenest intellect comes through self-reliance.
  Note the progressive broadening of awareness — from self, to others, to world. From the locus of my task-at-hand for physicals; to the inclusion of my and your rights for instinctives; to provable limits of knowledge for logicals; to as far as possible yet within reach of me for emotionals; to the breaking point for practicals; to the erasure and resetting of boundaries for intuitives; to infinity and for eternity for spiritualists.

  The 14 core ANSIR® Styles are not people. They are innate strengths and tendencies. Know yourself well enough to make best use of native abilities and acquired capabilities (competencies). Align your keenest intellect with the dominion (self/others/world) in which your strengths are armed for excellence.

  Get on a team (workplace/homespace) where your strengths are needed in order to • contribute purposefully • realize own value • be rewarded in a manner that is personally meaningful. Put together your own Style-complementary team. Successful enterprises ONLY do that for sakes of their mission-fulfillment. So can even must you for sakes of self-fulfillment. If you are not fulfilling your own life purpose, you are fulfilling somebody else's.

   

• Work Preference Inventory. Based on the premise that the process of values clarification is very important in career planning, the Work Preference Inventory gives you a small glimpse that helps you to clarify what you value in terms of work style to assist you in making more fulfilling and rewarding career and employment decisions. For best results, use Java-script-enabled browser.

• Personality and IQ Tests -- take a personality test and find out what others with similar personalities desire as an occupation. Plus lots of other interesting and unusual tests.

• "Online Career Assessment Tools Review:  Read our reviews of the major online career assessment tools for job-seekers."  If you are looking for some career direction, or perhaps just want to learn more about yourself and your personality, then taking one or more of these assessment tests can give you a better idea of your attitudes and interests as they relate to discovering more about yourself -- and possible career choices.  

• Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition"  Ways to use the Occupational Outlook Handbook site:
  (1) To find out about a specific occupation or topic, use the Search box that is on every page—enter your search term in the box.
  (2) To find out about many occupations, browse through listings using the Occupations links that are on the right side of each page.
  (3) For a listing of all occupations in alphabetical order, go to the A-Z Index and select a letter.

• Bridges.com:  At the top of the page, under the picture, in the blue box, make sure you click the  "site ID" tab rather than "professional account" which will come up first. Then enter 0002205 under site ID and dragon (case sensitive) under password.

From the University of Minnesota's University Counseling and Consulting Services:

• “A Major Decision Workbook”
  The first time many students’ think about the career development process is when they are faced with selecting or changing their major. Some students choose to immediately seek assistance in this process whereas others prefer to initially explore the possibilities on their own.

From Penn State's web page Major Decisions for students who are exploring majors:

• "Some Common Misperceptions about Choosing a Major."  Students often begin their exploration of majors with preconceived ideas about the best ways to go about choosing a major and about what impact that choice will have. Unfortunately, many of these ideas are misperceptions that can deter real progress.