Career Exploration

Self-assessment

• Majors & Careers and Career Assessment Options (Career Center)

• A Harvard career counselor explains self-assessment (Chronicle of Higher Education)

• What Color is Your Parachute: Assessment links

Career options

• Business

• Consulting

• Development & Fundraising

• Education & Training & Online Education

• Entrepreneurship

• Finance

• Government, Think Tanks, & Public Policy

• International work

• Internet & Information Technology

• Market Research

• Museums & Libraries

• Non-Profit Management

• Writing & Publishing

• Rackham: Careers Beyond the Classroom: Alumni Survey (login required)

Researching options

• Researching a company or organization (Career Center)

• Trade and professional literature

• Informational interviewing (Career Center)

• Internships or volunteer work (Career Center)

Networking

• UM Alumni Association Career Center: choose Alumni NetWorks to find information about volunteer career coaches (for association members). Category searches are occasionally misleading (i.e., search under "writers" brings up no results, however a search under "telecommunications" bring up one).

• Networking on the Network, a guide by Phil Agre (Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA) to networking over the internet.