About FOCUS

FOCUS is an online, self-guided, interactive program designed to help you select the right college major and plan your career based on your personal interests, values, skills, personality, and aspirations.

FOCUS always saves your results. You can use and reuse FOCUS as often as you wish, change your choices, explore options by playing the "what if" game. The FOCUS Automated Portfolio Builder records a summary of all your results.

Use FOCUS during several stages of your college years by identify the right major, explore career opportunities after graudation, contact professional associations in your preferred career field, and plan for advancement in your career.

FOCUS Main Menu Features

Career Readiness

• Career and Educational Goals: Allows you to enter your career and educational goals.
• Academic Strengths: Allows you to specify your academic strengths and weaknesses.
• Career Planning Status: Allows you to specify where you are in your career planning.
• Personal Development Needs: Allows you to specify your personal development needs.

Self Assessment

• Work Interest Assessment: Allows you to assess your work interests and explore matching occupations.
• Leisure Interest Assessment: Allows you to assess your leisure interests and explore matching occupations.
• Skills Assessment: Allows you to assess your skills and explore matching occupations.
• Personality Assessment: Allows you to assess information about their personality and explore matching occupations.
• Values Assessment: Allows you to assess your values and explore matching occupations.
• Combine the Results of Multiple Assessments: Allows you to combine the results from the assessments you have completed to help you narrow down your occupation results.

Explore the Possibilities

• Search by Name: Allows you to search for occupations by name.
• Search by Industry: Allows you to search for occupations by industry.
• What can I do with a major in...? Allows you to explore majors.
• Compare Two Occupations Side by Side: Allows you to compare 2 occupations of your choice.

Your Personal Portfolio

• Review and update your saved occupations.
• Review and update your saved majors.
• Review and print your portfolio.

Recommended Tools & Websites: Link to helpful websites.

Calendar of Events: See what career events are planned.