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Additional Career Resources

Monday, June 23, 2025

Interview Resources

  • Interview Me - Improve your interview skills by practicing with real-time mock interviews.
  • Google Interview Warmup - A quick way to prepare for your next interview. Practice key questions, get insights about your answers, and get more comfortable interviewing.
  • Jobscan - Jobscan helps you optimize your resume for any job, highlighting the key experience and skills recruiters need to see.
  • NovoResume - Use these 45 ChatGPT Prompts to help you prep for Job Interviews.

Microcredentials

Career Readiness Microcredentials are verifiable credentials that highlight specific, in-demand professional skills sought by employers. Earning these digital badges allows you to effectively demonstrate your competencies, enhance your résumé, and bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world career success, giving you a distinct advantage in today's competitive job market.

  • WorkReady Academy Microcredentials - Enable students to build the foundational skills required for success in the modern workplace.
  • DISC Personality Assessment - Alison offers a free personality test, based on the DISC model, to help you quickly understand your behavioral and communication preferences (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness). This self-assessment provides valuable insights for improving personal and professional interactions.
  • Emotional Intelligence - Alison offers a free Emotional Intelligence course that teaches you to understand and improve your EI, covering its models, workplace application, and strategies for growth. Upon successful completion, you can obtain a shareable digital, paper, or framed certificate to showcase your new credential.
  • Ed Applied - Ed Applied offers a free Emotional Intelligence course designed to help you understand and manage your emotions effectively, transforming them from obstacles into assets. This course teaches how to identify, understand, and apply emotional intelligence to enhance decision-making, improve relationships, and boost overall effectiveness in all aspects of your life.
  • Mastercard Career Readiness Certificate Program - Unlock your full career potential with Mastercard's exclusive Career Readiness Certificate Program! Undergraduates can sharpen their interview skills, refine their resumes and LinkedIn profiles with recruiter insights, and gain invaluable mock interview experience with Mastercard professionals. Complete the program to earn a certificate and gain privileged access to upcoming internship and new graduate roles.
  • 16 Personalities - The 16Personalities assessment is a free online personality test, known as the NERIS Type Explorer®, that provides insights into your personality type based on five broad personality aspects. It helps you understand who you are and why you do things the way you do by detailing your strengths, weaknesses, and potential.
  • Big Five - The Big Five assessment, available as a free, open-source test, is a scientifically validated psychological model used by over 4,000,000 people to understand their personality across five key domains: Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. This 120-question test takes about 10 minutes to complete and allows users to compare their results with others.
  • True Colors - The True Colors personality quiz helps you quickly understand your core motivations and communication style by identifying your dominant "color" – Blue, Gold, Green, or Orange – offering insights into how you interact with the world personally and professionally.

UpSkill Resources

Upskilling is the process of learning new skills or improving existing ones to stay current and competitive in your career. It's about adapting to evolving job markets and technology by acquiring new competencies that enhance your value and open doors to new opportunities.

  • Alison - Alison offers a vast array of over 5,500 free, self-paced online courses covering diverse subjects like IT, health, business, and personal development. These certificate and diploma courses provide accessible, job-relevant training to enhance skills, strengthen resumés, and boost confidence, helping students gain a competitive edge in the evolving job market.
  • Alison Learning App - Download for iOS and Android.

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National Career Readiness Certificate (WorkKeys)