Assessment & Career Exploration

• Better understand your interests, personality, values, gifts and needs
  

• Become more familiar with how you make decisions and what factors might speed your progress
  

• Use this self-understanding to make progress in your career planning

ACE will be
helpful if you 

• Seem to be going around in circles whenever you think about your career
  

• Aren't sure where to start in planning your career
  

• Feel torn among several possible career directions
  

• Feel restricted in your career planning by the expectationsothers have of you
  

• Find it hard to have much enthusiasm for any career direction
  

• Have good intentions to work on career planning but keep putting it off
  

• Have been unable to identifynew career options after giving up a long-held career goal
  

• Some of what you want from your career seems to conflict with other values or needs that you have
  

 

What is ACE?

The ACE program can help you take a
step back, reflect on who you are and
what is most important to you, and
address glitches in your decision making
process. This program of confidential,
individual career counseling is a collaborative
offering of the Career Center and
Counseling and Psychological Services
(CAPS).

How do I participate?

Make an appointment with a CAPS
counselor for an initial career counseling
meeting. One or more subsequent
appointments may then be scheduled
depending on your needs. Career assessment
tools, such as tests for interest patterns
and normal personality traits, may
be used in your counseling. When you
complete the ACE program, you can continue
your career planning by using
counselors and resources in the Career Center.

Collaboration between CAPS and the Career Center

Since ACE is a collaboration of the
Career Center and CAPS, staff from the
two offices may confer about your situation
at times in the interest of giving you
good service. This exchange of information
would apply only to your work
in the ACE program, not to any other
services you might receive from CAPS.

 

OFFERED BY
Counseling and Psychological Services
(CAPS)
IN COLLABORATION
WITH THE
Duke Career Center

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