Exploratory

Explore your possibilities

Exploring your career options is a great way to ensure fulfillment with your future career choice and has shown to lead to higher job satisfaction after college. It is completely normal to explore; how are you supposed to know what you want to do without trying it out first?

Explore with your Career Coach

Ways to explore majors

Major Guides

Each major has its own Major Guide that touches on common careers associated with the major, related skills, and suggested clubs/organizations to look into.

Exploratory Courses

Take one of the many career courses offered at IU to help learn about careers and different industries.

Learn about Yourself

Use Self-Assessments to learn more about how your Values, Interests, Personality, and Skills relate to your major and career goals.

Explore Programs

Explore all of the majors, minors, and certificates that IU offers and filter based on interests to see what is out there.

Ways to explore careers

MyNextMove

Explore career options, take occupation assessments, and learn about jobs.

Informational Interviews

Talk with professionals in your desired field to understand more about their experience.

Vault

Learn about job details and watch interviews from professionals in their field.

Networking through LinkedIn

Use LinkedIn Learning (FREE to IU students) to start building your professional network. Some ideas of people to add are: your career coach, professors, classmates, friends, or floormates.

Ways to explore through experience

Student Clubs / Organizations

Search through the many student organizations on BeInvolved to meet peers with similar interests and stay up-to-date on a specific field.

Part-Time Jobs

Think about how you develop skills and competencies through your part-time job.

Volunteer

Apply the skills you have learned in one of many non-profit groups or organizations partnered with IU through IU Corps.

Internships

Internships can tell you a lot about a field of work; particularly what you like and dislike about a field/company/industry.

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Other episodes to consider:

  • Episode 3: Do what you Love (but is that enough?)
  • Episode 13: The Art of Networking
  • Episode 17: Can I Change My Mind?