Your Career Development

Do you know the career for you based on your unique personality? There are books at the PCC Library that can help.

This is a personality assessment that many find useful in understanding their preferences - their unique personality.

Learn more about your work personality. Your Holland Code (career themes) can help describe work that might fit you. The Holland Codes is a system to classify jobs into job categories, interest clusters, or work personality environments. In the Holland Model, these categories represent work personalities.

We’re all searching for ways to live that are meaningful and true. Life Reimagined is a vision, a methodology, and a community that helps people rediscover what truly matters and focuses on what they really want to do.

OR CIS is a database system that provides national labor and education information, but localized to the state of Oregon. This system provides free career assessments (surveys that help you learn about your education and work preferences). Plus current information about college programs, occupations, and potential scholarships. PCC has a custom version available through MyPCC. Select My Courses in MyPCC and link to MAP (My Academic Plan).

O*NET is a free online database that contains hundreds of occupational definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses, and workforce professionals understand today’s world of work in the United States. This site links to a national database of occupations based on your career themes (Holland Code). Browse for careers based on your preferences for work environments and outcomes.

This is the website for the National Career Development Association. This site includes “many resources, services, and tools which assist users in exploring careers, planning for the future, searching for employment, and finding the additional training necessary to pursue a dream. Most of these resources are free, and several were developed in countries other than the United States.”