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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

What Does it Take to be a Business Development Manager at Microsoft?

Eric is the National Business Development Manager for the US Partner Strategy and Programs at Microsoft. His advice to students is to ask themselves two-fold: what are your strengths and what are your passions? Truthfully answering these two questions will …

By Mary [uConnect]
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Is Capital Goods a Good Career Path in 2023?

When it comes to careers, you may not have considered working in capital goods. In fact, you might wonder what a career in capital goods is, or even what capital goods are!

Capital goods are items companies use to produce …

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Forage
Showcase your skills. Find your career fit.
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What Does it Take to be a City Planner?

Melissa is the Director of Planning for the City of Florence, Alabama. She oversees the development of city projects, from ideation through to construction. These projects can include any new construction, from parks to power plants. Using a classical approach …

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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 …

Drift Travel Magazine

Drift Travel Magazine is an online publication that offers readers the latest news on travel destinations around the world

United States Occupational Safety And Health Administration/Nail Salons

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ensures safe and healthful working conditions for workers by setting and enforcing standards and …

The National Center for Healthy Safe Children

The National Center for Healthy Safe Children offers resources and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, and local communities 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 …