Career Center Director: Johnny Smith
  Extension 243, Email: jsmith@isothermal.edu

Health Sciences Counselor: Susan Hendrick
  Extension 441, Email: shendrick@isothermal.edu

Secretary: Patricia Smith
  Extension 244, Email: psmith@isothermal.edu

The area of Career Development has a well-established program that assists students and adults in the community in choosing and moving toward a career that is right for them.

• A Career Resource Area staffed by a counselor associate and secretary
• Career development counselors to assist in the process of career decision-making
• Interest testing
• Strong Interest Inventory
  • Uses 325 items to measure person's interest in a wide range of occupations, leisure activities, hobbies, school subjects and types of people.
  • Compares person's interests with interests of people happily employed in wide variety of occupations
  • Requires about 30 minutes to complete
  • Cost $5.00
• Computer Assisted Programs
• Self- Directed Search provides extensive personalized report that includes:
  • Holland's theory of careers
  • Description of personality types
  • Client's scores and how they relate to different personality types
  • Comprehensive list of careers which match client's Holland Code from 1,321 possibilities
• Please Understand Me: provides insight into temperament with a printed report
• Who Do You Think You Are: The Berkely Personality Profile is a do- it-yourself personality test.
• NC Careers: North Carolina's state-supported Career Information Delivery System (CIDS).
• NC Career Explorer, also known as CX Online, features five daily articles focusing on career information, skill development, labor market trends, emerging employment opportunities and recreational activities.
• Career Information
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook: provides quick access and printout capabilities to the extensive information in the Handbook
  • Corporate Job Outlook
  • Federal Job Opportunity List
  • Career Choices Newsletter
• Listing of current job openings utilizing the NC Job Service and National Job Bank
• Undergraduate and Graduate information
  • Catalogs
  • Applications
  • Peterson's Guide to Four Year and Two Year Colleges
  • The College Blue Book: Information and applications for CLEP and SAT
• Videos, relating to job search preparation, successful interviewing, negotiating the job offer, self-help, and job attitudes and habits.
• NC Transfer Counselor's Network to assist in future educational planning
• Mini-Workshops
• Interest Inventory assessment
• Resume writing and interviewing skills
• Career and life planning

Career Web Sites