Introduction to the CFNC Career Center
Research shows that people are happier if they make concrete progress toward their goals. The CFNC Career Center is designed with that progress in mind. Its components can help you discover your dreams as well as determine, pursue, and attain your goals.
General Career Training Information
There are many ways to train for a career. Some careers require education beyond high school. Other careers allow for on-the-job training. Below is a quick guide to the different types of training that are required for various careers.
- On-the-job training: Short- to medium-term training (less than 1 year) or long-term training (more than 1 year of coursework and training, which might need to be accomplished on your own time, e.g., you might need to attend night school while employed full time during the day)
- Postsecondary vocational training: 1-2 years of training beyond high school (e.g., noncollege-level business school, noncollege-level nursing school, and all branches of the military)
- Associate's degree: At least 2 years of education beyond high school (or GED)
- Bachelor's degree: At least 4 years of education beyond high school (or 2 years beyond associate's degree)
- Master's degree: At least 1-2 years of education beyond bachelor's degree
- Doctoral or professional degree: At least 2-3 years of education beyond bachelor's degree
Choosing a Career
Until the 20th century, people did not have much choice in their career paths. Children typically followed in their parents' footsteps, regardless of their own desires. Fortunately, today people have the freedom to choose their own paths in life. We are provided with a seemingly endless list of careers from which to choose. Because there are so many choices, the decision can seem daunting. Instead of having this decision made for us, we must now decide based on our own dreams, interests, and talents.
Considering all of these and deciding which career would most fit into our lives is sometimes overwhelming. The Career Center module is designed to help students with all aspects of their career decisions, taking into account talents and interests in the
Career Key, and helping you match these interests to a particular career in the
Student-Career Matching Assistant. Once you have a few specific careers in mind, the
List of Careerscan give you a summary of what those careers entail, what skills and education levels are required in those fields, approximate salary for each career, and schools and majors that can lead you to those careers.