Lakeland College

Focus

FOCUS is a web-based, personalized career and education planning system. Use FOCUS to create plans so you can self-manage your career, be proactive, control your destiny, and take advantage of new career opportunities. You can benefit by using FOCUS to help determine career options, selecting a major, or clarifying your career choices.

FOCUS guides you through a process enabling you to:

• Assess your present career status and your planning needs
• Assess your work related interests, values, skills, leisure time activities, and personality type
• Discover and explore occupations and education programs that are compatible with your personal attributes, lifestyle and needs
• Map out your career and educational goals, action plans and personal development needs
• Search for jobs, graduate schools, training programs, scholarships, financial aid, and internships

You will need to have a User Name and Password to use Focus. You may get these from Career Services.

After you login successfully, continue to navigate through the program using the red buttons at the bottom of the screen. You may need to scroll down to see those buttons. The program will keep track of your progress by showing check marks for each phase on the Main Menu.

Using the red button marked Report at the bottom of the Main Menu, you may select the reports you desire to print. Exit the program by clicking the red button marked Exit and answer the questions. Remember to collect your printouts from the printer.

We encourage you to visit the program as often as you desire to gain career information.

Please contact Career Services, WAK 117 or 565-1255, to discuss your results or for assistance with the program.