Career Services
Major and Career Exploration
Career basics: From Self Exploration to Life After College
Activities by year - Develop Career Competency (pdf)
Freshmen First Steps: A checklist for your first year (word doc
Plan your major (Links to the Registrar's major planners)
What can I do with a major in…?
Assessment tools to evaluate your career interests and values.
Vault Another helpful library. Use Vault to learn about industries, career profiles, and general advice. (Note: If you have any questions regarding downloading this information, please contact Career Services at x7550.)
Alumni network Search for and network with alumni who share your interests and skills.
Road Trip Nation: Apply for a grant to fund your career-related roadtrip.
Career Services library books: Browse or search for reading material to support your career exploration, job search, or graduate school application. Most of our 500+ books can be checked out for one week.
Resources for…- Persons with disabilities
- Lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgendered
- Spanish speakers (links to a job search page with bilingual opportunities)
Do your research!
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook (Information on training, earning, prospects, working conditions, and daily responsibilities of hundreds of professions.)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Profiles on a variety of occupations, organized by industry.
- Oregon Labor Market Information System (OLMIS): Search more than 700 occupational titles for job openings, wage information, licensing information, and employment forecasts. Also features tools for the active job seeker, including listings, employer contact information, and articles on interviewing, resume and cover letter writing, etc.
- America's Career InfoNet: Occupation, Industry and State Information for the nation. Includes a skills profiler, an exercise which compares your skills with that of a desired occupation to determine compatibility.
- Oregon Clusters: Industry clusters are groups of similar and related firms in a defined geographic area that share common markets, technologies, worker skill needs, and which are often linked by buyer-seller relationships. Learn about the interconnectedness of your desired field(s) and find out about opportunities to network.
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