Many students come to college without clearly defined career goals.
The first step toward academic and career success is to select a field that matches a person's skills, interests and values. The Strong Interest Inventory tm and the Self Directed Search tm can help the student identify interests and match them with possible occupations. The following descriptions help to further define each of these themes and how they relate to different types of people. The chart below matches in a general manner the different themes of interests with programs of study offered at Montgomery College. However, both the programs of study and individuals usually contain more than one single theme.