Explore Your Options
Having to connect a major to a career field can be difficult for many students mainly because ones education can be used for a wide variety of career paths. Although your major does not lock you into a particular career or determine what your career will be, looking at additional resources for you to begin exploring your options is important. Choose any of the links below to find information on different career pathways for different majors, employers that hire in those fields, strategies, and related career titles. Explore your options.
- What can I do with this major? Thinking of a major but not sure what you can do with it? This website can provide information on different areas of employment for your major, employers that hire in those areas, and useful strategies. The downloadable pdf files are great takeaways for each major and provide useful information.
- What can I do with a major in... This website is very helpful in connecting actual job titles to majors. Click on any major to get a list of job titles most associated with that major and it will then direct you to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to get information on that career.
- MyFuture.com. This website will allow you to explore careers by field of study, industry, type of work, or career trait. In addition to gathering a wealth of information, this website also military friendly. You can search military careers and find out which careers are civilian and/or military.
- My Next Move allows you to explore occupations and related information including job openings, salry information, employment outlook and much more!
- Bureau of Labor Statistics website allows you to search through a list of all occupations alphabetically. Find everything from salary information to advancement opportunties all at once.
- Inside Jobs offers thousands of unique career profiles that are fun to read and include videos, salary ranges, and work environment information.
After you have acquired information, you need to begin the process of making decisions and developing goals. Dedicate some time to complete Waterloo's Career Development eManual. This website will take you step by step and make you reflect on your decision making process.
