What Is the Career Center?

What You Will Find and What You Can Do in the Career Center

Here's what you can do in the Career Center:

• Discover which types of careers suit your personality with the Career Key
• Determine which careers map to your interests with the Career Matching Assistant
• Explore a wide range of careers in the List of Careers
• Store and track the results of your career exploration in your myGoHigher Careers

Reasons to Use GoHigher Kentucky and the Career Center

Research shows that people are happier if they make concrete progress toward their goals. The Career Center is designed with that in mind. It can help you discover your dreams and determine, pursue and reach your goals.

General Career Training Information

There are many ways to train for a career. Some careers require education beyond high school. Others call for on-the-job training. The levels required include:

• On-the-job training: Short- to medium-term training (less than one year), or long-term training (more than one year of coursework and training that might need to be done on your own time while you hold a full-time job)
• Postsecondary vocational training: One to two years of training beyond high school (non-college level school and all branches of the military)
• Associate's degree: At least two years beyond high school or GED
• Bachelor's degree: At least four years beyond high school or two years beyond an associate's
• Master's degree: At least one to two years beyond a bachelor's
• Doctoral or professional degree: At least two to three years beyond a bachelor's

Choosing a Career

You have a seemingly endless list of careers from which to choose, so the decision can be hard.

The Career Center will:

• Help you with your career decisions
• Take into account your talents and interests in the Career Key
• Help you match these to a career in the Career Matching Assistant.

Once you have some careers in mind, the List of Careers can tell you what those careers involve, what skills and education levels you need, the approximate salary for each career and the schools and majors that can lead you to those careers.