{"id":1473,"date":"2025-01-10T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/careersnew\/?page_id=1473"},"modified":"2025-01-10T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:23:01","slug":"focus-2-career","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/careers\/focus-2-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus 2 Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FOCUS 2 CAREER is an online interactive, self-guided career and education planning system designed to help you make decisions about your future career goals and education plans. Typically, students can complete the self-assessments in less than 1-hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FOCUS 2 CAREER system will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Assess your career planning involvement, career readiness competencies, work interests, values, skills, personality type and leisure time interests.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide a list of occupations, career fields, majors, and training programs that match your personal preferences and attributes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Help you plan a career and educational pathway that will support your personal needs and goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A good strategy is to complete all of the assessments, complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/careersnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2025\/02\/FOCUS-II-SELF-ASSESSMENT-WORKBOOK-2024.pdf\">Self-Assessment Workbook<\/a>, then discuss your ideas with your career counselor and academic advisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:28px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focus2career.com\/Portal\/Login.cfm?SID=737\">Focus II Login<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>CODE: HAWKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FEATURES OF THE FOCUS 2 CAREER ASSESSMENT TOOL<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Career Exploration &amp; Decision-Making<\/strong>: Students gain insights into career options and related majors\/programs at UMES, with assessment results linked to over 1,000 occupations featuring up-to-date, detailed information. Ideal for First-Year Experience programs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Career Planning Readiness<\/strong>: FOCUS 2 CAREER evaluates students&#8217; engagement in the career planning process and provides tailored activities to support informed career and education decisions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Self-Assessments<\/strong>: Research-based and reliable tools match students&#8217; interests and abilities to occupations and compatible majors at UMES.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Career Exploration Tools<\/strong>: Interactive features include &#8220;What Can I Do with a Major In&#8230;?&#8221; for UMES&#8217; programs, plus searches by job family, industry, and more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Take Action Plan<\/strong>: Students design personalized academic and career development roadmaps.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Career Portfolio<\/strong>: Students&#8217; assessment results, preferred majors, occupations, rankings, goals, and achievements are compiled into a comprehensive portfolio.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Real-Time Student Results<\/strong>: An intuitive administrative dashboard provides detailed user results, robust aggregate reports, multi-administrator access, and customization options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOCUS 2 CAREER is an online interactive, self-guided career and education planning system designed to help you make decisions about your future career goals and education plans. 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