College to Career: What does your path look like?
As a student in the College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences you’re on your way to achieving your professional and career goals: whether that be graduate school, employment in the private sector, creating impact in the public sector or non-profits, or launching your own business.
Yet, even if you have a sense of where you want to end up, what you’ll actually be doing – or how you’ll get there – can seem unclear. The CALES Career Center is here to help.
Explore your interests, map your path
Strong Interest Inventory: A $100 value available at no cost to U of A students! The inventory compares your personal interests to real people, in real careers who love what they do. A comprehensive and highly trusted career assessment, the Strong Interest Inventory will point you toward the majors, careers, and work environments where you are most likely to thrive. And, even better: your 40-minute online assessment is followed by a one-hour interpretation appointment (that you schedule) with a Strong Certified advisor from our colleagues in the A Center!
O*NET Interest Profiler: The O*NET Interest Profiler can help you find out what your interests are and how they relate to the world of work. You can find out what you like to do.
Picture Your Career Workbook: The exercises in the workbook are career hacks, of a sort. They are clever and quick solutions to your career problems and questions. And – even better – you create your own solution.
Labor Market Trends: Curious what an Agricultural Inspector gets paid in Indiana? Interested to know what the demand will be in 2032 for Personal Financial Advisors? Want to know the top employers for Environmental Restoration Planners? Find all that, and more, in Labor Market Trends.
