Assessment & Career Exploration

Become an ACE with your Career Planning!

A Program of Career

Counseling to Help You:

• 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.