Focus Career and Education Planning

The Focus career planning and guidance system is provided by Madisonville Community College as a service to our students, staff and community. Focus will help you broaden your 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.

Accessing Focus

• Register for Focus

  • Use the keycode capcenter when prompted

• Log in to Focus

  • For previously registered students

What Focus Does

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. The database contains information on nearly 1200 occupations and includes:

• A job overview
• Typical duties
• Education and skills needed
• Average earnings
• ... and more.

Use the Focus career planning and guidance system to:

• Assess your interests, skills, personality, values, and recreational activities
• Discover occupational and educational options that are best for you
• Map out your career and educational goals and plans
• Explore and analyze career information
• Plan a job search strategy

Registered users can logon at anytime from any computer to explore and seek information to help them make the right education and career plan.