The first step in planning a future career is with a career plan. From here you can learn what majors match up with your career plans, find what jobs interest you, or browse a selection of valuable career planning links. These resources will help you explore options and find the career choices right for you.
Understanding who you are and what you want to become is the most important step in identifying your career direction. A counselor can assist you with clarifying your career interests, skills, values, and personal decision-making style. To that end, we offer a variety of instruments that include:
The Pathways workbook is designed to help students through the process of career and life direction. A collaboration of the Career Center, Advising Center, and Center for Vocational Reflection, Pathways is designed around five developmental stages: Explore, Assess, Focus, Confirm, and Implement. It provides students with activities and suggestions that will help them with their direction and sense of purpose.
The workbook also centers on the values of a Gustavus education. Excellence, Community, Justice, Service, and Faith. We encourage students to engage themselves while they are here and in their lives beyond Gustavus, working toward a just and peaceful world.
