Career Exploration and Planning Tools

While there are many ways to engage in GRAD 360° events, we encourage trainees to begin their transformation by using a career exploration tool.

Select a tool below to begin the process of exploring your values, skills, and career interests.

Leadership at the 3MT event

myIDP

(Free!)

The Individual Development Plan (IDP) concept is commonly used in industry to help employees define and pursue their career goals. In 2003, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) proposed an IDP framework for postdoctoral fellows in the sciences. Expanding on that framework, myIDP is a unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of PhD students and postdocs in the sciences.

myIDP

TypeFocus

(Free!)

This tool will assess your personality based on your preferences available via the Career Center website. The password and ID are available only to Clemson students. Your 4-letter personality preference can give you insight into: What career choices fit with my personality? How can I improve my chances for getting a job? How can I get along with people better? What are my learning style strengths? We encourage students to make an appointment with a counselor to review their TypeFocus results. Students can call the Career Resource Center at (864) 656-0440 to schedule an appointment with a career counselor.

TypeFocus

ImaginePhD

(Free!)

ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

Humanities and social sciences PhD students and their mentors have long recognized the need for more resources to help bridge the knowledge gap between doctoral education and the realm of career possibilities. ImaginePhD is designed to meet this need by allowing users to:

  • assess their career-related skills, interests, and values
  • explore careers paths appropriate to their disciplines
  • create self-defined goals
  • map out next steps for career and professional development success
ImaginePhD

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

($15.00)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument measures personality preference on four scales; Extraversion - Introversion (E - I), Sensing - Intuition (S - N), Thinking - Feeling (T - F), and Judgment - Perception (J - P). This Indicator lets you examine your style of communicating, making decisions, and planning – and relate your style to work environments. Students may come by our Career Resource Center, 316 Hendrix Student Center to take this assessment during our office hours. Students must make an appointment with a counselor to view the results of their assessment.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

(Free!)

Based on John Holland’s Six Career Personality Types, The Newly Revised Strong Interest Inventory is a tool that can help students to evaluate their work interests. This assessment can show how your interests compare to those of professionals in hundreds of occupations. Students can either come by the Career Resource Center, 316 Hendrix Student Center to take this assessment during our office hours or they can take the assessment online by clicking here for instructions. ALL students must make an appointment with a career counselor to view the results of their 14 page assessment. If you need an alternate format for reviewing the strong interest inventory results, please request this when scheduling your appointment so your career counselor can be prepared with the most appropriate format for reviewing your profile. To make an appointment, Call (864) 656-0440.

Strong Interest Inventory

GRAD 360° provides content as a service to Clemson University graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Some GRAD 360° events and content may not be in accord with every trainees’ personal priorities, opinions, or beliefs. A very broad range of topics, content and perspectives is required to serve the professional development needs of every member of our graduate student and postdoctoral scholar populations, diverse in every aspect. The content, views, opinions, and positions expressed by the presenters of GRAD 360° events are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Graduate School, Clemson University, or any of its units or employees.

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