Career Assessments
FOCUS is a self-paced, online career and education planning tool for use by Geneseo students and alumni. It will enable you to self-assess your career relevant personal qualities and explore career fields and major areas of study that are most compatible with your assessment results. Students who use FOCUS make better decisions about their goals and plans and learn how to self-manage their careers.
Why use FOCUS? Career planning with FOCUS leads to the following advantages for students:
While in college:
- More goal focused and motivated
- Higher academic achievement
- Fewer transfers and switching of majors
- Graduate on time
After Graduation:
- Better entry job with higher income
- More satisfied, more productive in their career
- Less career change, faster achievement
How to Create Your Student User Account in FOCUS
To create your personal account in FOCUS, the Online Career and Education Planning System
- Click on FOCUS and enter the following Access Code: knights
- Select "If you need to create a new account, click here."
- Enter the following Access Code: knights
Enter your personal information being sure to select a user name and password that you will remember easily.
To log on to your personal FOCUS account at another time
(You do not need to create another account to reuse FOCUS, your original account remains active and will store all your results each time you use it.)
- Click on FOCUS
- Enter your user name and password (do not create a new account)
The system is cAsE SeNsITIvE! So if you capitalize your password when you are registering, you will need to always capitalize your password when your are logging on as well.
On the FOCUS main menu, FOCUS will guide you through the career planning process and save all of your results. You may use FOCUS as often as you wish anywhere, anytime (24/7) on any PC or MAC. You can use the FOCUS Main Menu tools in any order and repeat any assessment. Once you have completed an assessment, a check mark will appear next to that assessment on the Main Menu.
Special Instructions:
- You must complete an entire assessment for FOCUS to save your results
- Use the buttons within the FOCUS program; do not use the BACK browser button
Strong Interest Inventory
The Strong Interest Inventory® assessments provide time-tested and research-validated insignts to help you in your search for a rich, fulfilling career. The Strong empowers you to discover your true interests so you can better identify, understand, and often expand your career options.
The Strong generates an in-depth assessment of your interests among a broad range of occupations, work, and leisure activities, and educational subjects. To reveal your interest patterns, it presents results on a variety of complementary themes and scales:
- General Occupational Themes map out broad interest patterns to describe personalities and preferred work environments.
- Basic Interest Scales provide more specifc information about your areas of interest.
- Occupational Scales relate your interest patterns to those of satisfied workers within the occupation.
- Personal Style Scales describe your preferred style of working, learning, leading, risk-taking, and team participation.
This is a free assessment for Geneseo students and alumni. Please call 585-245-5721 or stop by Blake A 104 to make an appointment to see a counselor and decide if this is the right test for you.