We offer a variety of career assessments to help you learn how your interests, personality, and strengths may complement various occupations. Many assessments can be taken independently, but some will be interpreted alongside a career advisor.

Challenge Mindset Card Sort 

The Challenge Mindset helps us find purpose and impact. The SparkPath Challenge Cards will help you discover a career path based on exciting, real-world challenges—not just job titles. Use our school code: Viterbo2024 to sort the challenges and discover what interests you!

Pathway U

PathwayU is a platform that will help you determine what gives your life purpose through interest and values assessments that direct you to career clusters.

Transferable Skills Assessment

This assessment helps identify your top skills. Use your results to market yourself, identify potential career paths, build your strengths, or become aware of  skills you'd like to improve.

MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator)

The MBTI is a personality assessment designed to help you understand how personality preferences can affect academic, career, and lifestyle choices.

Check out these free MBTI assessments:

• Human Metrics: Discover Your Personality Type
• Sixteen Personalities: Free Personality Test 

Find descriptions of the personality types here.
Explore psychological type profiles here.

Strong Interest Inventory®

The Strong Interest Inventory is one of the most widely used career assessment tools in the world. It will help you identify your interests and see how these interests can support academic and career success. The tool uses themes from the Holland Codes to help you identify majors, workstyles, and careers that align with your work personality types. Contact us to take this assessment.

CareerOneStop Skills Matcher

This tool helps you create a list of your skills and matches them to occupations that use those abilities.

CliftonStrengths

CliftonStrengths helps you identify and better understand what you naturally do best It gives you clues as to the type of work environments and roles in which you are most likely to thrive. CliftonStrengths uses 34 Talent Themes to create your personalized Strengths Insight Report and Action Planning Guide. Contact Kristen Nyholm to take this assessment.

If you are currently exploring, don’t feel that you fit with your present major, or want to talk about crafting a path to career success, you will benefit from career advising. A career advisor is available to listen to your needs and administer assessments that will help you understand how your interests, personality, and strengths help shape your choice of major and career.

Schedule an appointment via Starfish. 

O*Net

O*Net (U.S. Department of Labor) collects, organizes, describes, and disseminates data on occupational characteristics and worker attributes for over 1,100 occupations.

My Next Move

This interactive tool for job seekers and students, from the U.S. Department of Labor, helps you learn more about their career options. The site offers tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook

This handbook, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, offers career information on duties, education/training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.

Career Outlook

This report, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, includes data and information on occupations/industries, and pay/benefits.

CareerOneStop

Career OneStop provides employment and career information with integrated tools to help you explore career paths.

Viterbo's Todd Wehr Memorial Library Career Resources

Our library offers additional information on careers/vocations, career choices, resumes, cover letters, interview process, and resources to get started on your job hunt.

Not sure where to start? Check out our Career Action Plan, which outlines recommended steps to take each year of college.  

An informational interview is a conversation you initiate with someone who works in an industry that interests you. You are the interviewer, rather than the interviewee.  Conducting informational interviews can help you determine if a particular career path is right for you and expand your professional network. Learn more about how to plan and conduct an informational interview.

Job shadowing provides you with an opportunity to observe professionals in their occupations. As you experience what the employee does in their daily work, you can ask questions similar to those in an informational interview. This type of experience provides insight into whether an occupation will be a good fit for your post-graduation plans.

Check out some of our job shadowing opportunities:

• Pre-health job shadowing
• Mayo Clinic Health System job shadow
• Gundersen Health System (GHS) job shadow – email GHS or call the GHS Medical Education main office at 608-775-2081
• Life in Harmony Music Therapy job shadow
• Aptiv (formerly Riverfront, Inc.) job shadow – email Aptiv
• UW–La Crosse Student Health Center Physical Therapy job shadow
• Scenic Rivers Area Health Education job shadow
• Organic Valley Job Shadow – email Organic Valley

What Can I Do with this Major?

Whether you're exploring majors or searching for information about your chosen field, this website will help you connect majors to careers.

Occupational Outlook Handbook Field of Degree

Each page provides a glimpse of workers with a particular degree and shows occupations, outlook, and more for people in that major. Click on a Field of Degree link to explore the information, which includes links to relevant profiles in the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Explore Viterbo Majors and Minors

Viterbo offers more than 50 academic programs. You can even choose to double major or select a minor.

Common exploration courses include: 

• CRMJ 150 – Introduction to Criminal and Community Justice
• ECAS 100 – Truth, Beauty, Goodness
• EDUC 150 – Introduction to Education
• MGMT 101 – Introduction to Business
• SOWK 210 – Introduction to Social Work
• UNST 110 – Major Exploration

LinkedIn

The Alumni feature in LinkedIn is a great way to explore majors and careers. Visit the Viterbo University LinkedIn page and click “See Alumni.” You can view 8,000+ alums and where they live, where they work, what they do, what they studied, what they are skilled at, and how you’re connected. You may use this information to explore various careers and set up job shadows or informational interviews.

If you need help setting up a LinkedIn profile to connect with alums, schedule an appointment with us.

UNST 110 – Major Exploration

This one-credit course facilitates life and career decision-making. Class activities encourage examination of personality characteristics and interests along with personal and occupational values. You will also delve into your abilities, skills, and aptitudes. Explore the world of work and requisite academic preparation, generate occupational and academic goals, and make knowledgeable and appropriate decisions. This course is designed for entering and undeclared students and is offered each semester.

UNST 310 – Career Professional Development Seminar

This one-credit online course is designed for upper-division students who want to prepare for internships or careers after college. You will develop greater awareness of how your interests and personality affect your career choice. Investigate possible career paths as well as develop application materials, create effective search strategies, and practice interview skills to prepare for the next steps in your career development. The seminar is offered each semester.

Visiting a Career Fair can be an excellent way to learn more about opportunities available in the area and to network with potential employers. For guidance on how to take advantage of a career fair, refer to our career fair guide. Check out current opportunities today on our events page.