STARR career center workshop

After our calc exam, Suling and I went to room 2-190 for the STARR career center workshop for first year and sophomores on Nov. 1, 2017. Going into the workshop, my only thought was to get it over with, retain some information, and write my blog post for FRO. Upon our arrival to the workshop, we were given folders and in it was only a few pieces of paper. In the workshop, I learned that there are many career options for each major. While some majors lead to more specific jobs, like accounting, other majors such as political science can branch out to many jobs. Later on, I also learned that there are six general occupational themes: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. I realized that I was mostly social, enterprising, and conventional. Social people prefer to work with people by informing them, helping, developing, and enlightening. Enterprising people prefer to actively manage, influence or lead people and conventional people are detail oriented people who prefer to work with data and dislikes a lack of structure and ambiguity. I want to major in business management and that falls in the enterprising theme. Since these six themes are placed in the shape of a hexagon, right next to enterprising, is social and conventional which makes business management   closely related with the theme of enterprising. In business management, I am extremely interested in hotel management which makes sense why I am mostly in the social theme and then enterprising. Towards the end of the workshop, we were told about the strong interest inventory vocational assessment online. I was extremely interested in taking the test however, we would not be able to access the results on our own but go to the next week’s workshop. I would not be able to do that since I have class and only didn’t on Nov. 1 because it was an exam day and I finished the exam. So I didn’t take the assessment even though I am still curious of what major and career would fit me best.