OGPS Career Exploration Winter 2026

This series will guide participants through essential steps of career exploration: self-assessment, researching career options, and networking. You will gain valuable insights into your strengths, values, priorities, and aspirations, and learn actionable strategies for career discovery. By blending guidance, hands-on assessments, practical frameworks, and networking skill-building, this series supports you in making informed decisions and finding career paths that fit your interests. Through this series, you’ll develop the clarity, confidence, and connectivity needed to navigate your career exploration process and pursue fulfilling opportunities


Learning Objectives

By the end of this series, you will be able to:

  • Identify and articulate your unique strengths and talents through the CliftonStrengths assessment, and apply them to your professional journey.

  • Define your “Career Compass” by clarifying your values, skills, life needs, and mission, using these as guideposts for career exploration and evaluation.

  • Discover and utilize effective resources for researching career fields, analyze job descriptions for fit, and develop strategies to organize and assess your current skills.

  • Build and maintain professional relationships using best networking practices, conduct impactful informational interviews, and create a compelling professional brand.



Career Compass: Discovering Professional Purpose

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THSL 2955
OGPS Team

Through this workshop, you will define your own “Career Compass”—composed of your life needs, career skills, and mission statement—that can help you focus your career exploration and job search strategies. The self-awareness developed through the exercises here can help you clarify career fields, work environments, and a lifestyle that are the best match for you.  


Workshop Goals: 

  • Describe the career exploration framework.

  • Identify and articulate your values, skills, life needs, and inspirations.

  • Utilize the career compass framework to guide career exploration and evaluate career options.

  • Embrace that your values, interests, and needs change over time and that career exploration and evaluation is a life-long process.

Note: Lunch will be provided.


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