First-time users, call Career Services at 601-266-4153 to set up a Focus account.

FOCUS offers personalized career planning and career guidance information services for students and adults in career transition. FOCUS will help you broaden your career horizons and map out career and educational goals and plans. This system is based on established career counseling principles. It provides you with a complete picture of your interests, values, personality, skills, and leisure activities using self-assessment questionnaires, interest inventories, and personality testing. After you have assessed your personal attributes, the system searches its career and occupational information database to help you identify and analyze occupations and career paths that match your personal characteristics. Once you have a set of career plans, use it to search for colleges, universities, technical institutes, and training programs to support your plans.

Use the FOCUS Career Planning and Career Guidance System to:

• Assess your interests, skills, personality, values, and recreational activitiesDiscover occupational and educational options that are best for you
• Map out your career and educational goals and plans
• Explore and analyze career information
• Search for colleges, universities, technical institutes, and training programs
• Plan a job search strategy