Career Exploration and Planning Resources
Build your career readiness at your own pace with self-guided guides and tools from the Engage Center for Experiential Learning and Career Readiness. These resources support career exploration, choosing a major, resumes and cover letters, mock interview practice, networking, job and internship search, experiential learning opportunities, and more. Browse our resources below.
Focus 2 Career Platform
FOCUS 2 Career is an interactive career and education planning platform that helps students explore their majors and career options that align with their goals by identifying their interests, values, personality, and skills while also assessing their career readiness based on NACE standards.
What you can do in FOCUS 2 Career:
- Complete self-assessments focused on your interests, values, personality, and skills
- Explore majors and career options that align with your assessment results
- Research occupations, career pathways, and educational requirements
- Explore how academic majors connect to career opportunities
- Assess and strengthen your career readiness competencies
- Develop an action plan to support your academic and career goals
- Build a personalized career portfolio to track your results, goals, and career exploration
Login to Focus 2 Career (Instructions Handout)
Career Info Resources on the Handshake Platform
Use the broard range of guides and tools in the Handshake Resources Library to strengthen your key career readiness and experrierntial learning skills:
- Explore careers and majors (career pathways, major-to-career connections)
- Career guides & handouts for quick self-help as you plan and prepare
- Resume and cover letter support (drafting, refining, tailoring)
- Interview preparation (tips, practice, and readiness strategies)
- Networking support and professional communication strategies
- Job and internship search strategies and planning tools
- Experiential learning exploration to help you gain real-world experience
What Can I Do With This Major?
Not sure how your major connects to career options? What Can I Do With This Major? helps students explore common career paths associated with academic majors and understand how skills gained in the classroom translate to the workplace.
Use this resource to:
- Explore career options linked to your major
- Identify employers and industries connected to your field of study
- Learn about skills, job functions, and career outcomes
- Discover job search strategies related to your major
- Support informed decisions about career paths, internships, and graduate school
This resource is especially helpful for students who are exploring career options, considering a change in major, or planning next steps.
Explore What Can I Do With This Major?
LinkedIn Learning Platform
LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform offering thousands of on-demand courses and video tutorials to help you build your career readiness skills and enhance your professional development.
Use LinkedIn Learning to:
- Build technical, professional, and leadership skills
- Strengthen skills related to communication, teamwork, and career readiness
- Explore content in areas such as technology, business, creative fields, and data
- Learn at your own pace with short, flexible modules
- Add completed courses and certifications to your LinkedIn profile
LinkedIn Learning is a great way to complement your academic experience and demonstrate continuous learning to employers.