Explore Interests, Skills and Majors
Career exploration: We'll guide you
Four-year action plan: You can talk to us knowing exactly what you think you want to do, or you could come to us for help having not a single idea. Our four-year action plan will help you think about what to do and when.
Career planning is a life-long process. You may not even realize it, but from an early age you develop the interests, skills and values that will affect your future career choices. These experiences may come from joining a club, participating in a sport, interning, a summer job, earning a college degree, etc.
We can help you to fine-tune your individual process. Working off a basic four-step career development model, our counselors will work with you in your individual process wherever you are now to whatever goal you desire.
Step 1: Self-assessment
Step 2: Identify and explore careers
- Whether you know it or not, you have chosen, or are in the process of choosing, your major based on the interests and skills you identified above. What did other alumni do with their UVM majors? Let UVM alumni share their majors and ultimate job paths.
- Explore the UVM Career Connection — a network of over 2,600 alumni, parents and friends friends who volunteer to talk with students or other alumni about careers.
- What other jobs/careers relate to your major or interests? Visit our Career Services Library to research careers related to majors or your interests. The collection includes books, files, directories, catalogs and listings of Web resources to help you explore. The library is open during regular office hours.
Step 3: Take action, gain experience and develop expertise
Step 4: Evaluate your progress
- Are you satisfied with your experience (e.g., internship, work-study, occupation, etc.)?
- What new things have you learned about your interests, skills, & values?
- Does this career path work for you?
- What's next?
And the process repeats ....
Last modified January 30 2009 09:19 AM
