TypeFocus

TypeFocus is an interactive tool that has helped thousands of individuals plan and validate their next steps using the integration of self reflection and the exploration of career options. The TypeFocus program uses self-assessment of your personality, interests, values, and skills to generate customized reports, which help people understand themselves better so they can choose more effective career strategies.

The TypeFocus program is designed for all students and alumni and can assist you in any step of your career journey.

For freshman students in their first two semesters at Southeastern, follow up with your First-Year Success Advisor regarding your results and how to use those to narrow in on a focus area.

For 3rd-semester Freshmen through Seniors, meet with your ACE coach to review your results and assess your strengths, explore occupations and Southeastern majors, and set goals.

For Seniors and Alumni, confirm your next steps and become career ready! Meet with a career counselor in the Office of Career Services to confirm your career direction, measure your career readiness, and further your understanding of what it takes to succeed on the job!

TypeFocus has been a leading developer of online personality type and career assessment resources since 1997. Created with your career needs in mind, TypeFocus offers a step-by-step program to meet and exceed them.

1. Self-assessment
   TypeFocus’s self-assessment uses multiple career assessment criteria such as personality, interests, values, and skills to help students/alumni know themselves more completely, and provide an overall understanding of an individual’s natural strengths and preferences.
2. Explore Your Options
   Based on your assessment results, students/alumni will discover which occupations suit them best through occupation exploration.
3. Create Your Career Roadmap
   By setting goals, students/alumni are able to decide where they want to go and create a succinct plan on how to get there, when they create their career roadmap.
4. Are You Career Ready?
   Integration of the NACE 8 Core Competencies into the Typefocus program, allows students/alumni to measure their career readiness based on the standards set forth by the collaboration of employers and universities across the country.
5. Get the Job You Want
   By focusing on their strengths, students/alumni are able to improve their success, gain confidence, and get the job they want.
6. Success on the Job
   Lastly, success on the job is created by understanding the secret to long term success, which is simply to meet the needs of your employer.