Career Development offers resources to help you discover your interests, values and skills as they relate to the world of work. More importantly, career counselors are available to meet with you one-on-one to discuss your interests and career goals. Let's talk: contact us to schedule a time.
Assessments & Resources
- Strong Interest Inventory - Online assessment to help you discern interests and prospective career options. Please contact our office to arrange an assessment.
- - Discover how majors relate to jobs with this in-depth resource.
Activities
- Career Counseling - Meet one-on-one with a counselor to talk through potential career and major options, obtain assessment results and create a plan for exploration
- Job Shadowing - Spend a day following an individual in a profession of interest. Experience the occupation and tasks first-hand
- Informational Interviewing - Interview several people in an industry of interest to gain multiple perspectives on a potential career
- Service Learning - Engage in volunteer work for credit with a population in need, which can offer critical real-world applications to academic training and valuable personal growth
- Volunteering - Gain valuable experience; corporations and non-profits alike may be receptive to offering you training in exchange for your time and manpower
- Internships - Gain real-world experience and a chance to determine if an occupation or an environment is the right fit for you
Career Exploration Information
- - Career exploration and job analysis
- - Career and job information
- - Projections for numerous occupations
- - Career and occupation information
Salaries & Trends
Our career team has compiled a list of external websites covering topics such as compensation, budgeting, and more that may support you in your job search and career planning.
- - Salary calculator to see how much you would need to earn in a new city
- - Agency within the U.S. Department of Labor; provides stats on employment and wages, labor demand and turnover, and the dynamic state of the labor market
- - Database of 6 million company reviews, CEO approval ratings, salary reports, interview reviews and questions, office photos and more, shard by company employees
- - Budgeting tool from a non-profit financial literacy organization
- - Learn about the job market and compensation trends
- - Bureau of Labor's guide to guide to career information about hundreds of occupations
- - Career and finance experts answer your salary negotiation questions
- - Multiple salary and employment related resources