For access to any of these free resources, log in to your Trinity Recruiting account. If you have trouble logging in, contact careers@trincoll.edu or 860-297-2080.
One way to start thinking about your post-graduate options is to utilize various assessments. There are many different types of assessments that help you look at your passions and your personality in new ways. These assessments enable you to envision new patterns and connections between all of your interests. In addition, an assessment can help you determine the types of experiences to engage in and skills you should seek to build from internships, summer jobs, graduate school, or a full-time job.
We offer two tools for assessment and exploration:
Do What You Are
- An online assessment that produces a detailed summary of your personality type. These results will help you increase self-awareness, boost your effectiveness, and help you make more informed decisions about your future. Understanding your personality is the first step in discovering a career that will make you happy and fulfilled.
FOCUS 2- Guides you through a reliable career and education decision making model to help you choose your major and make informed decisions about your career. Combines 5 self-assessments, career and major exploration, action planning and decision making in one comprehensive product. Customized with Trinity’s majors, your assessment results are matched to career options and majors/programs offered at Trinity. To learn more about what FOCUS 2 can do for you, review this PowerPoint presentation.
Our career advisers are available to assist you with analyzing the results of all assessments and develop an academic and career plan outline that charts a course for you at Trinity.
Once you understand the many aspects that make up who you are, you can begin to research different industries that might be a good match for your preferences. The following are other online resources to utilize for this next step.
Candid Career
- An easy to use website that hosts a library of thousands of informational video interviews from professionals in a wide variety of careers. Dedicated to providing the inside scoop on careers so viewers will be informed and ready for what lies ahead. Similar style to YouTube videos, 3-5 minutes in length.
Career Insider by Vault
- Job seekers, students, and professionals utilize this comprehensive resource for career management and job search information, including insider intelligence on salaries, hiring practices and company cultures.
Going Global
- Provider of both country-specific and USA city-specific career and employment information. Unlimited access subscription database features 33 Country Career Guides, 43 USA City Career guides, corporate profiles and more than 600,000 internship and job listings within the USA and around the world.
Spotlight on Careers
- Created by career development professionals from over 30 selective liberal arts colleges in the Liberal Arts Career Network. On this site you can explore a range of careers that often appeal to liberal arts students. Within each career category you will find an overview of job titles and trends, advice from alumni who have chosen that career, and links to more specific resources to help you begin your internship, job, or graduate school search. You will also learn how your liberal arts degree will prepare you to enter one of these careers.
For access to any of these free resources, log in to your Trinity Recruiting account. If you have trouble logging in, contact careers@trincoll.edu or 860-297-2080.