Career Pathway Exploration

All new students entering Navarro College will be sent a career assessment. 

This procedure will take you through a series of assessments and interest questions, designed to determine results in the 14-key aptitudes utilized in the working world. The results include a review of your personal strengths, suggested environments where you will succeed, detailed information on possible careers that match your skills and interests, majors that map to those careers, and much more.

You can meet with your College & Career Success Coach once you complete the career assessment to review your results or assist you in choosing a program of study.

Many students are undecided about their college major or career choice. If you feel this way, you are not alone. Deciding on your academic and career pathway can be very stressful. For any questions or requests to complete the career assessment, please call (903) 875-7397 or email the Academic Advising Staff.

 

Here’s what to expect when completing the career assessment:

  • The assessment takes about 1 ½ hours to complete the Core Assessment.

  • Make sure you’re in a quiet, comfortable place where you won’t be distracted by television, music, pets, or your cell phone. Please tell anyone who may be around you that you need quiet and privacy. 

  • For your results to be accurate, you’ll need to provide your honest effort – no calculators or cheats! Do the best you can. 

  • Some exercises will come easy; others may be difficult or even frustrating. Knowing what’s hard is just as important as knowing what comes naturally.

  • To help you pace yourself we built in 10-minute breaks after some of the exercises. Take advantage of those breaks. You deserve them!  It is even okay if you need to come back and finish the next day.

  • Please make sure you don’t press the back button or close your browser during an active exercise. If you need extra breaks, take them in between exercises.

  • Make sure you read the directions completely before beginning each exercise

 

 

Career Pathway Tools

Texas Reality Check

This website lists occupation and the salary information to ensure you understand the lifestyle your future career can provide. This tool is helpful because it allows you to plan and assess your future by showing you how much your living expenses will cost in relation to the amount of money you are expected to earn.

Go to Texas Reality Check website

 

16 Personalities

This website is based on Carl Jung’s and Katherine Brigg’s personality indicator, Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Understanding your personality and the personality of others, can assist you to navigate the world around you. It can also help connect personalities to careers.

Go to 16 Personalities website