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Career Exploration

The best careers are those with purpose, where you can combine your values, strengths, and skills to impact something you care about. How do you discover your purpose? By exploring — yourself! Identify the things you value and love to do; then, you can find a career to put those values and skills to work.

You can use different strategies to explore your skills and strengths and how you might apply them to a career.

Reflection: Our career journey begins with knowing ourselves. Self-assessment is discovering and prioritizing your motivations, needs, interests, values, and skills. Once you get some insight into yourself, then you have a clear starting point. You only need one for the journey to begin! Need a place to start? Take Career Coach Assessment to learn about yourself and career suggestions based on your interests. Assessments can provide you with personal insights that can be helpful in considering your career and professional development, but they should not be seen as prescriptive or directive.

Research industries online: You can find many job roles across industries. In the Labor Market Insights, you can discover which industries are in demand, have the largest employment, are experiencing declining employment, pay the most, and more. Sharpen your job search or career planning by learning where industry growth and decline are occurring.

Gain Experience: There are various opportunities to explore a job role, industry, or organization. Understanding the day-to-day and experiencing employer culture first-hand is an invaluable way to make more informed decisions.

  1. Complete virtual Experiences
  2. Shadow a professional in the field
  3. Request an informational interview
  4. Apply for a part-time job or internship

UX vs. UI: What’s the Difference?

User experience design is a newer, exciting career path that’s creative and technical and directly impacts how users interact with a product. Within this area, there are two main concepts: UX vs. UI. Both areas aim to make a user’s …

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Guide to Working at Google

Google is a multinational technology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. While most people have used Google at some point in their lives, few have experienced what working at Google is really like. To help you learn more about what …

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What Does a Marketing Analyst Do?

Marketing analysts help companies make data-driven marketing decisions. Also called marketing research analysts (or market research analysts), these professionals work in nearly every industry, powering a company’s marketing team through data analysis. But what does a marketing analyst do, actually? 

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Labor Market InsightsIn partnership withLightcast logo

Explore occupations by career categories and pathways and use real time labor market data to power your decision making.

First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Resources

Career Coach

Career Coach is a web-based service that helps identify strengths, explore in-demand careers, and find the right program to achieve …

Designing Your Dream Career

Illustration by Marian Blair

In this free paced, four-part email course, you’ll learn to:

Identify the skills you need to …

Candid Career Video Library
Career Assessment

Seeking career assessment, resume builder, elevator pitch, and interview practice?

Members of the BRCC community can access SkillsFirst

Members of …

Louisiana Believes

Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Believes is built on the premise that Louisiana students are just as capable as any …

U.S. Army’s Career Navigator

Career Navigator is designed to help everyone learn the benefits of a U.S. Army career.  This app allows civilians to …