Career Development
Career Services
FOCUS 2 CAREER guides you through a reliable, intuitive career, and education decision making model
to help you choose majors offered at ULM, explore occupations, and make informed career
decisions. You will be engaged in the career planning process to help you plan for
and achieve career success throughout your lifetime.
Creating your Focus 2 account:
Step 2: Fill out the one page form and click continue.
Focus 2 consists of 5 valid and reliable assessments: Work Interests, Personality,
Leisure Interests, Values, and Skills. You will be given results once you have completed
each assessment. Once you have finished all assessments, you can see your results
from all 5 assessments combined. See below:
As you explore the occupations you are matched to based on your results, make sure
to save those occupations of particular interest. Each occupation will show you what
you would need to major in at ULM in order to lead you to that career path. Make sure
and save your majors of interest as well.
You can also utilize the "Explore the Possibilities" section to view what you can
do with certain majors, review occupation descriptions, and compare 2 occupations
side by side. See below:
In addition to the 5 self assessments, you can complete other items to add to your
portfolio at the end.
Below are 2 portions where you can rate your career planning readiness and identify
your academic strengths. See below:
The last section you can complete for your portfolio is the "Take Action" section
where you will fill in information about your past, current, and future education
plans as well as your professional/career development. See below:
After all assessments and additional information have been completed, you can build
a portfolio to see all of your results in one place. You can include as much or as
little from your results in your portfolio. See below: