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Introduction: Finding Your Career Path Through Self-Exploration

The first six modules in this text covered important issues in digital literacy, computer hard-
ware and software, and digital citizenship. Here, in Module 7, you will find useful resources
and tools to help you explore your personal interests, identify your skills, and prepare you for
your career search.

Joe, who has a wife and three children, lives in Ohio and was recently laid off from his long-
time factory job. He came to Ashford University to resume his education and prepare for a
new career. Before reentering the work world, he recognized the importance of doing some
self-exploration to figure out what he really wanted to do for a living and how he could lever-
age his education to get him there. He used the resources in this module to create a career
profile of himself and identify his personal strengths, weaknesses, and skill sets.

Like Joe, we hope you will find some useful ideas and tools here in Module 7 that will make
your life easier and enhance your career opportunities. New websites are being created daily,
and the links in this module will change over time. Change is inevitable in the fast-moving
world in which we live today. But consider this module a guide to the valuable, interesting,
and fun resources available to you today—most of them free—to help you meet your goals.

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Finding your career path can be a journey of self-discovery. This module is intended to serve
as a guide.

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