Career & Major Exploration

Investigate Careers

Learn about specific career paths and work environments by reviewing these online resources. These tools can help you you research occupations and narrow your options. Talking directly with professionals is the best way to get insight about possible careers you may want to pursue.

Discover Your Options

  • Focus 2 is an assessment that matches your interests, values, skills and personality to possible occupations.
  • MyNextMove is an interactive tool that helps students learn about career options by highlighting asks, skills, and salary information for 900+ careers.
  • Candid Career features short video clips of industry professionals sharing job descriptions, their background, and helpful career advice.
  • What Can I Do With This Major? helps you connect majors to careers and industries. The site highlights typical career paths, hiring employers, professional associations, and career development strategies.

Connect with Professionals

The best source of career information is from people already in those professional roles. You can research their career journey, learn about the pros and cons of a job, and make meaningful connections to help you on your journey.  In addition to your friends, family, and co-workers, use these resources to identify new contacts.

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Gain Experience

Career Communities

The Career Communities resource helps you explore possible career paths in broad industry areas. Browse blogs for career advice, research career paths, review resources for job and internship leads, and watch videos featuring unique occupations.

Career Communities

Looking for some help?

Speak with staff to get resource referrals and discuss how your skills and background can lead to unique career paths.

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Career Explorations Class

SSC 2100 is a one-credit hour course open to undergraduate students of all majors and grade levels who may be at any point of the decision process regarding majors, careers, and life direction.

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Unsure what to do next?

Career Counseling

If you are feel overwhelmed or unable to move forward, please reach out to a Career Counselor to schedule an intake appointment and talk about your career options. Career Counselors have a holistic approach to address career, academic, and social concerns.

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