Self Discovery and Career Exploration
Self-assessments help you gain an understanding of your strengths, skills, and interests. Career exploration tools map those strengths and interests to meaningful careers and provide insights that can make you a marketable candidate to employers.
Self-Assessments
Self-assessments help you identify your unique strengths, skills, interests, and personality so that you can make informed career decisions. UMass Career Services utilizes a range of self-assessment tools to guide you throughout your academic career.
Career Exploration
Career Exploration is the process of researching and learning about modern work opportunities and then evaluating how those opportunities would match with your own personality, interests, and skills.
'What Can I Do With This Major' features nearly 100 major profiles with information on common career paths, types of employers that hire in the field, and strategies to maximize opportunities.
Careeronestop is a U.S. Department of Labor resource that allows users to explore careers, salary and benefit information, education and training, as well as career development resources.
The Career Cornerstone Center is an excellent resource for those exploring career paths in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, healthcare, and medicine.
Maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor, this site allows you to explore different professions and learn about the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions.
O*NET, the Occupational Information Network, is a database of worker attributes and job characteristics developed by U.S. Department of Labor. It provides details on aspects of occupations, including: skills, abilities, interests, work style, and knowledge.
