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Career/Major Exploration
What Should I Be Doing?
1st Year
Self-Assessment:
- Meet with an academic advisor to learn about self-assessment strategies. You may choose to take an inventory to help identify your career-related interests, values, skills and personality traits.
- Select courses that give you an opportunity to check out possible majors to determine what you most enjoy studying.
- Keep an eye open for career related special events announcements throughout the semester.
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Career Awareness:
The more you know about careers the better. Be sure to learn about the connection between majors and careers. There are many resources in the Career Services Exploration Center and online that provide lots of information about hall the career fields that are out there.
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Career Exploration:
It is never too early to test out your preliminary career choices through direct observation and involvement. Develop opportunities to “shadow” persons in careers of interest to you. Try to arrange an “informational Interview” with a neighbor, relative, friend, parent of a roommate – anyone – who has a job that you are curious about, ask to spend some time on the job with that individual.
2nd Year
Self-Assessment:
- Become involved in one of the multitude of activities on campus
- Continue to meet with an Academic Advisor. As a result of your classroom and extracurricular activities, have you cultivated new interests and career possibilities? Be sure to visit with an academic advisor once a semester to help monitor the connection between your changing interests, choice of major and selection of career.
Career Awareness:
Keep exploring. There are a lot of careers “out there”. Continue to research potential careers, majors and transfer schools.
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Career Exploration:
Arrange to do volunteer work, obtain a part-time or summer job in a situation where you can see for yourself what some careers are like.
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