Career and Major Exploration Resources

Career and Major Exploration

UA Career Services • DISCOVER Program: DISCOVER is an easy to use career planning and occupational information program that can assist you in making career decisions. This program can help you whether you are exploring academic majors, learning about occupations or conducting a job search
UA Career Services • Career Counseling: Wondering about your future? You are not alone. Your future career is only one aspect of your plans, but an important one. Start now to put the career pieces together in a way that makes sense for you...a career counselor can help.

UA Career Services • Strong Interest Inventory: This assessment measures your level of interest in school subjects, occupational areas, work and leisure activities, kinds of people, and various learning and work environments. Your interests are compared with people who are happily employed in a variety of occupations. The assessment will not tell you what to do, but will give you insight into academic majors and occupations that you might enjoy and want to explore.

UA Career Services • Career Exploration Professional Development Seminars: What career options are open to you? What can you do with a major in X? Learn about strategies and resources that will help you explore your skills and interests in relation to careers. Please join us! No prior sign-up required.
Center for Exploratory Students • for Transitional, Interdisciplinary and Exploratory Students: A university-wide program that assists all undergraduates with major/minor exploration. For students who have not yet chosen a major/minor, or who are unsure about their current major/minor.

Career Assessments

PersonalityType.com: Information related to personality types and careers.
Career Test for the Soul: It's good to get an objective assessment of our abilities. But the first thing a really effective outside expert or career test will do is help us take charge of our own decision making and challenge us to ask, for example: What is really important to me? What uniquely personal life values do I want to achieve in my career? Where am I and where do I want to go in my life journey? Career Test for the Soul will help you answer these questions.
My Future Work Interest Quiz: A quick, effective and FREE career assessment.
Texas Oscar: OSCAR is a product of the Texas Workforce Commission/Career Development Resources (TWC/CDR) and was originally developed under a grant from the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Take the quick trip or the full flight.
The Riley Guide: Self/Career Assessment Resources: A number of quick and effective online self/career assessments listed. The Riley Guide is a widely known and respected career resource web site.
True Colors Inventory: A quick, effective and FREE career assessment.
Keirsey.com: Take the Temperament Test and view the free mini report of your results. More detailed reports are available for a fee.
Work Preference Inventory: A quick, effective and FREE career assessment.

Major and Career Information

Job Web • National Association of Colleges and Employers: Picking majors, planning careers, assessments (with fees), occupations and salaries.
Brain Track Career Resourses: This guide offers data on hundreds of careers that typically require higher education for entry or advancement and features links to thousands of schools.

Quintessential Careers: A Career and Job Hunting Resource Guide: Information on choosing a college major, exploring careers, assessments, and job seeking.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington • What Can I Do With A Major in: Information about academic majors, careers, skills, and related web sites.
America’s Career InfoNet: Occupational information, labor market trends and a national employer database.
Idealist.org • The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers: Free online books offer advice and resources for anyone considering a career in the nonprofit sector. The publications are written by experts in the field.
Wall Street Journal • Career Journal: Career information, related sites, and online assessments (with fees).
Education-Portal - Researching Careers Videos: Online videos on specific careers.

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