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Welcome to the Student Life Skills website operated by the Natural and Social Sciences Department of the InterAmerican Campus. Student Life Skills (SLS) courses help the Miami Dade College student succeed in college. Provided in this site are links to or information about our SLS courses. We also provide links to assessment resources, career resources and study skills resources on this web page. You may click on the titles/hyperlinks below to go directly to your area of interest. |
 Career Resources
Learning Assessments
Study Skills Resources
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 CAREER RESOURCES |
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Choosing a Career
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The career exploration process is an active, creative effort to link your interests, talents, skills, values, and goals with possible occupations. You should know enough about your own personality, interests, abilities, and values to select several appropriate occupations. A number of occupational inventories are available which show how your interests compare to those of people who are already employed in a wide variety of occupations. |
SIGI 3 Career Assessment: http://www.facts.org/
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The SIGI 3 is based on John Holland’s trait measurement and matching model that assumes that career choice is related to personality traits. Holland's model includes six personal orientations and relevant work environments: |
Realistic people prefer physical, mechanical jobs (e.g., farming, engineering).
Artistic people like jobs where they can express their creativity (e.g., art, music).
Social people prefer jobs that involve interaction with others (e.g., teaching, nursing).
Enterprising people prefer jobs involving persuasion of others (e.g., supervisory positions).
Conventional people prefer jobs that are structured, predictable (e.g., jobs in business).
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To find out more about Holland's theory and determine which of the previous six personality
orientations you fall into, take the free Career Interests Game.
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The nature of the work
Working conditions
Job entry requirements
Potential earnings
Potential status
Opportunities for advancement
Intrinsic job satisfaction
Future outlook
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The Occupational Handbook is now online and can be accessed through
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http:// www.bls.gov/oco/
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You may also find information about Career Choices in the following websites: |
Florida Choices Planner
Glencoe's 16 Career Clusters
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LEARNING ASSESMENT |
Sometimes students have trouble learning new information. If that is true for you, you may want to learn more about your unique learning style. According to Suzanne Miller, developer of the Learning Styles Survey, your learning style is the way you prefer to learn. People who study learning styles believe that the way you learn doesn't have anything to do with how intelligent you are or what skills you have learned. Miller believes it has to do with how your brain works most efficiently to learn new information. Your learning style has been with you since you were born.
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Learning styles researchers suggest there is no "right" approach to learning, but rather that the best way to learn is to use an approach that is suited to your unique style. Once you determine the nature of your learning style, you are one step closer to becoming an effective learner.
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Below are links to the two best learning styles tests on the web. When you take the tests, your results will tell you what kind of "learning styles" you have. You should then link to the explanations pages so you can see what that means to you. Your ultimate goal is to use study strategies that are appropriate to your learning style(s). |
DVC Learning Style Survey for College, developed by Suzanne Miller
DVC Learning Styles what your style means
Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire (ILSQ), developed by Barbara A. Solomon
What the ILSQ "styles" mean
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OTHER ASSESMENTS |
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Anxiety Inventory can be found at Harold Bloomfield, M.D.'s website. |
http://www.glencoe.com/ps/career/peak/general/selfassess.shtml
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STUDY SKILLS RESOURCES |
Academic Tips
Student Survival Manual
Study Skills Help Page
Mind Tools
Time Management
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