Career
YouScience:
Because BCS focuses on preparing your students for college, we are committed to helping them set a path for current and future success. We are constantly looking for opportunities to improve our offerings, and one such opportunity is now coming to fruition.
We are excited to announce that this year all juniors and seniors will be able to participate in YouScience. This is an aptitude assessment that measures students’ aptitudes (what they do naturally well) and combines them with their interests (what they love to do), to give them personalized career and education recommendations. Moving forward, all students will participate in aptitude testing in their junior year.
This testing service, as well as result reporting and interpretation, will be provided by BCS without an additional charge. After testing, there will be follow-up discussions regarding interpretation of results. These results will aid each student in the choice process for determining the college that provides the major/career path best suited to their abilities and interests.
One of our own seniors, Martha Hughes, commented on her experience with the process, “I found the aptitude test to be very helpful and the results confirmed that my aptitudes match up with the skills that it takes to be an engineer. I am more confident in my decision to major in engineering.”
Tere Hager, BCS parent and elementary librarian, says “It is a great opportunity to have aptitude testing offered at BCS. If you go have the testing done by a private company it can be quite expensive. Aptitude testing can be helpful for kids who have no idea what they want to pursue in college, as well as students who have many interests, but need to narrow their interests. In our case, our son had an idea of his major and future occupation and the aptitude testing confirmed that his plans were in keeping with his strengths. It was great to have that confirmation and I think it really built up his confidence as a student knowing that he was on the right track.”
We look forward to many more positive experiences and are excited to provide this for our students.
Additional Resources:
Self-Directed Search: The Self-Directed Search® (SDS®) is a career interest test that asks questions about your aspirations, activities, skills, and interests in different jobs. From the responses, the SDS produces your personal three-letter Summary Code, which you can use to find occupations and fields of study that match well with your personality.
John Holland’s Typology: The Holland Occupational Themes is a theory of personality that focuses on career and vocational choice. It groups people on the basis of their suitability for six different categories of occupations. The six types yield the RIASEC acronym, by which the theory is also commonly known.
Myers-Briggs: The goal of the MBTI is to allow respondents to further explore and understand their own personalities including their likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, possible career preferences, and compatibility with other people. No one personality type is “best” or “better” than any other one. It isn’t a tool designed to look for dysfunction or abnormality. Instead, its goal is simply to help you learn more about yourself.
CollegeBoard: Take a validated personality assessment to get a detailed report on your personality type. Explore a list of suggested careers and majors that fit your personality and strengths. Search for colleges by location, major, cost, and much more. Find out what students and professionals have to say about their choices. Get tips on applying to college and succeeding in high school and beyond. Create an online portfolio for college and career planning
O-NET OnLine: Take the skills test and look at occupations that match the results
Khake: Click on the “skills” at the bottom of the page. Scroll down in the right hand column to “skill and interested assessments.
Road Trip Nation: From video game designers to lawyers, sports journalists to STEM professionals, and everything in between, we’ve sought out untold stories and shared them. These stories form the basis of our career exploration products—including an educational curriculum, personalized online tools, video content, bestselling books, and live events. Together, these tools create a diverse and relevant collection of resources showing young people the vast scope of careers and possibilities.