Choose Your College Major in a Day - Softcover

Understanding your direction, your personality type and your strongest skills will help guide you in making that all important decision for a college major.Choose Your College Major in A Day will help you determine your personality type by administering an assessment that identifies majors for each type of personality. Included in this book is a checklist of skills to help you understand your strengths and a checklist of common high school courses to identify your favorites. It helps you locate the majors that dominate the list by asking you to make a top five list. Each major is defined with a description of how it relates to high school courses, specializations, a list of common course requirements, a typical career path, a list of related occupations, personality type skill, and economic information for related occupations.

Laurence Shatkin, PhD, has been a writer and researcher in the field of career and education information for 35 years. He was one of the developers of the SIGI PLUS career information system at Educational Testing Service, and he has developed and adapted similar systems for use in the U.S., Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. He is the author or co-author of several books on college majors and more than two dozen books about careers. He lives in New Jersey.