Assessments and Resources
The Career Center utilizes a variety of student assessments and resources to help
students with their Career Development and Job Skills needs. These tools and assessments
are the ones our center most frequently use and they include:
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RIASEC - Interests Assessment with Report of Related Careers
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Strong Interest Inventory - Strengths Assessment with Career Exploration and Planning
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Big Interview - Resume and Interviewing Software Utilizing Generative AI
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Handshake - Online Job Board & Internship Search
For more information on these assessments and tools, please come to the Career Center or contact us at cuyamaca.career@gcccd.edu.
Additional Career Exploration Resources and Password Protected Assessments
In addition to the assessments and resources listed above, there are many additional career exploration resources we encourage you to explore to help you better understand your interests, goals, and career options.
Free Career Resources
Discover and identify your interests, skills, work values, and match careers based on your individual financial needs.
Browse careers, programs or take a career assessment to discover San Diego and Imperial County-based career paths that match your interest. Search results will include occupations, wage information, and related trainings.
Learn about local community college programs within San Diego County, related career pathways, and salaries.
Find wage and employment trends, occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions, millions of employer contacts nationwide, and an extensive career resource library online. Including Career Videos grouped by career cluster, with over 300 videos in Spanish.
This is not a government-run site but it does have the information about federal jobs and internships that are currently available, and career guides.
This is a mobile app for your phone, available in English or Spanish. It lists all California Community College Programs, including career pathways and salaries.
Find your category of major and explore related careers with their “What Can I Do With This Major?” section.
This is a FREE Government site with no passwords required. Discover what your interests are by completing an interest assessment and how they relate to the world of work. This site is also available in Spanish. My Next Move also offers a version tailored to Veterans.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook
Learn about information on career outlook and salary. Click on the occupation field you are interested in and you will find a description of the career, educational requirements, salary and outlook. Figures on salary and outlook are national figures.
Princeton Review Career Research
Browse career profiles in the search engine under “Find a Career” to find out about a typical day in the life of someone in your chosen occupation, future planning, quality of life, and related majors.
Select a program of study and view the earnings of recent California community college graduates who received an award in a specific program of study. Salary Surfer provides comparative information on earnings to help students make important decisions about investing time and money in a college education.
Find out what salary you will earn in your chosen occupation. The salary wizard calculates your salary based on geographical area. Links to job boards are included.
Password Protected Sites
The Career Center has a variety of student assessments and tools to help students
with their career development and job skills needs. A counselor can assist with providing
an interpretation of your results. Please contact the Career Center for access to
the following password protected sites:
AchieveWORKs Assessments
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Personality Type- Learn more about your strengths, challenges, communication strategies, and careers related to your preferences and type.
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Learning and Productivity- Create a preference profile and learn more about study strategies based on your learning preferences.
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Multiple Intelligences-Based on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence theory. Create an intelligence profile, learn about your challenges, and careers and majors related to your strengths.
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Skills- Identify and develop skills to be successful in the workforce.
Career Cruising
Career Cruising is a tool for you to learn more about your skills, values and interests through assessments.
This program allows you to search a database of careers, colleges, and majors. Career
profiles include educational requirements, occupational information, salary, outlook,
and videos and interviews by professionals in each field.
Roadtrip Nation
Learn from video game designers to lawyers, sports journalists to STEM professionals, and everything in between. These stories form the basis of Roadtrip Nation's career exploration products—including an educational curriculum, personalized online tools, video content, bestselling books, and live events. Together, these tools create a diverse and relevant collection of resources showing young people the vast scope of careers and possibilities.
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