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The first step in planning your career is to know your values, your interests, and the things you’re good at. It's time to get to know yourself. Take one or more of the quizzes to help plan your career path.
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How to Choose a Career That Fits You
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Why Career Planning Can Work for You
Career planning is a lifelong process that can help you manage important life and work decisions. Consider your priorities, options, and strengths to build a plan that gets you where you want to go.
Follow These 4 Steps to Plan Your Career
Career planning helps you make decisions throughout your career, whether you are just starting or planning retirement. Follow these 4 steps to plan your career.
Get to Know Yourself
Knowing what to do after high school starts with knowing yourself. Take the first steps by understanding your values, interests, and abilities.
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Know Yourself
The first step in planning your career is to know your values, your interests, and the things you’re good at. It's time to get to know yourself. Take one or more of the quizzes to help plan your career path.
Explore Your Occupational Options
When planning your career, it’s important to explore the occupations you’re interested in. You might even discover opportunities you didn’t know you have.
Explore Options
The second step in planning your career is to explore the occupations you’re interested in and maybe discover some new ones. Find the tools you'll need.
How to Make Big Career Decisions
Making big decisions is about taking control of your life. Here’s some advice on how to make important career decisions with confidence.
Make Your Decision
The third step in planning your career is to make your decision and evaluate your career options. Follow these suggestions to help identify the best option for you.
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Take Action to Achieve Your Career Goals
By now, you’ve decided on your next career move. You also know there will be challenges. It's time to make sure your career move will be a success.
Take Action
Get where you want to go. It can be exciting to identify a career direction and create a plan to pursue it! At the same time, where you are right now can seem like a long way from where you want to be. These 5 steps will help you take action and shorten the distance between you and your vision of the future.
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Set SMARTER Goals
Your dreams for your future can be powerful motivators. But, to achieve them, you need to set goals. By taking the SMARTER approach, you’ll be better equipped to face challenges and make changes in your life and career.
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Know Yourself
The first step in planning your career is to know what you value, your interests and the things you’re good at. It's time to get to know yourself. Take one or more of the quizzes to help plan your career path.

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Find Your Fit

Connect your interests, skills, and abilities with occupations that might be a good fit for you. Each quiz you complete makes your top occupational matches more targeted to you.

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Interests Exercise

In this exercise, you'll rank your interests in 50 activities. Based on your results, you'll be presented with links to related occupational profiles.
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Abilities Exercise

What are you good at? See how many skills and talents you have by rating these activities. Then discover the careers that best suit what you can do.
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Core Skills Exercise

Knowing which of the 9 core skills you are best at will help you plan a career you'll enjoy and excel in.
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Understand Your Interests

Learn how the 5 types of interests are defined, where they come from, and how you can use them to spot occupations that might be a good fit for you.

Skills Quiz

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Your skills are the things you've learned to do well arising from talent, training, or practice. They are an important part of who you are. According to the experts, the average person has up to 700 skills ready to be used at any time!

Traits Quiz

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Traits are the behaviours and characteristics you bring to an occupation and a workplace that make you who you are. Examples of traits include dependability, flexibility, curiosity, respect for others, cheerfulness and self-reliance.

Work Values Quiz

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To find a career that fits you discover what’s important to you. You’ll gain valuable insights into who you are.

Identify Your Experiences

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Choose experiences where you did something and were proud of the result. It doesn't matter what anyone else thought about the experience or even if anyone else knew about it. The important thing is that you did it and it made you feel proud.

Preferred Working Conditions Quiz

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Pick the way you want to work: Shift work or regular hours? In an office, at a warehouse or on the road? Explore these choices so you can find the occupations that fit your career.

Vision Exercise

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If you can envision the life you want to live, you’ll find it easier to make the choices and decisions that are right for you. Take a few minutes to concentrate on the big picture.
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Preferred Knowledge Quiz

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Choose the subjects that you like and dislike to find occupations that match the things you enjoy learning about. 
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Understand Your Abilities

Learn how the 9 types of abilities are defined, where they come from, and how you can use them to spot occupations that might be a good fit for you.

Multiple Intelligences Quiz

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Everybody is intelligent in different and diverse ways. Even if you have the same kind of intelligence as another person, the way you use your intelligences will be unique to you and your work. This quiz will help you discover your unique style of thinking and understanding in order to identify which learning strategies work best for you. Also discover occupational options that reflect your strengths.
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Learn More About Yourself

Identify and record your personal career assets like abilities, accomplishments, and interests. Get to know your core skills and traits and be able to apply them to a new job or even a new way of working.

Holland Codes Quiz

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Holland Codes uses questions about work activities that you like or dislike to identify your strongest personality traits.
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Make Your Decision
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