Career Development
Center
  Occidental College
 1600 Campus Road,
Coons 109
 Los Angeles, CA
 90041-3314

 Email: careers@oxy.edu
 Phone: 323.259.2623
 Fax: 323.341.4900

Guide to Career Decision-Making

Self-Knowledge

The Occidental Career Development Center is one of the places you can turn to for help in clarifying your self-knowledge. There are many resources available to help make clear each of the three main self-knowledge areas.

Looking at You - A critical part of learning how to make career decisions involves looking at oneself and answering the following questions: 

What kind of activities am I interested in?

What sort of values do I have that motivate me to work?

What kinds of skills and abilities do I possess or need to develop?

What other options are available to help me clarify my self-knowledge?

The answers to these "I stated" questions are important ones because they provide useful information for making career decisions and solving career problems throughout one’s life. This self-knowledge helps both expand and narrow the options that we are considering at any given point in life.