| A | B |
| Internal Career Design | Unique to you, matching your interests, abilities, personality, and values to an ideal career field for you. |
| Informational Interviews | Talking to peole about their career to get honest information about work. |
| Internship | Provides practical experience working in a specific career. |
| Career Day | An organized time tha allows you to listen to and interact with people in careers that interest you. |
| Career Fair | An opportunity to talk with many businesses about many careers at one time. |
| Work Values | The aspects about a career and the workplace that are important to you. |
| Job Shadowing | An informal assessment activity shere you spend several hours following a worker at his or her job location. |
| Ability Assessments | Measures how well you perform specific tasks now and whether you can master certain skills in the future. |
| Informal Assessment Experiences | Activities in which you talk to someone working in a career, observe someone working in a career, or work in a specific career yourself. |
| Formal Assessments | Written by psychologists and career counselors who research careers and career skills to create the tests. |
| Interest Inventories | Instruments designed to help you relate your interests to career clusters |
| Service Learning | Volunteering your time to help the community. |
| Personality Assessment | A tool that reveals the personal qualities that make you unique. |
| Self-assessments | Types of instruments based on what you think of yourself. |