Finding Your Career Path & Career Planning

First Steps

The first step in planning a future occupation is to find your career path. From here you can learn what majors match up with your career path, 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 choice right for you:

• Make "major" decisions
• Take the Strong Interest Inventory
• Talk with a career counselor
• Read about fields of interest
• Get information about occupations

Career Counseling

Understanding who you are and what you want to become is the most important steps 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:

• Strong Interest Inventory
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Self Directed Search
• Online tools such as What Can I Do With This Major?, eMentoring, and online Career Interest Tracking.
• Many other self-assessment exercises

Please schedule an appointment with a career counselor, who will talk with you about your current plans and may suggest instruments that will help you to make decisions about your major and career.

Pathways Booklet

Finally, 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.