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Major & Career ExplorationUniversity College

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Last updated 08-25-08

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Strategies for Success

• Students who have goals and a sense of direction in college are more likely to stay in school and graduate.

• Students who are committed to a well-explored career plan are more likely to succeed in their careers.


Major & Career Exploration • Wouldn't it be great to love going to work most days?

• What if you could turn a passion into a career goal and find a major that would lead to it?

• How motivated would you be if your university education could take you to places you have dreamed about?


Career Development at ASU

• You have the opportunity to make informed choices based on self-understanding, research, and reality testing.

• Matching interests to choice of major and career promotes satisfaction and success in career.


Power of Passion• Between 1960 and 1980, 1,500 business school graduates

were surveyed. • Category A graduates made money first, then did what they

really wanted to do later (1,245 graduates or 83% of the population).

• Category B graduates pursued their true interests, sure that money would eventually follow (255 graduates or 17% of the population.

• Twenty years later, there were 101 millionaires in that group of 1,500 business students.

• Category A graduates had 1 millionaire.• Category B graduates had 100 millionaires.

• Albion, M. (2000). Making a life, making a living. New York: Warner Books.


Major does not always equal Career

• Major: focus on one or more areas of study

• College Education: develop intellectual capacities, critical reading, thinking and writing skills, and learn sophisticated information competencies

• Career Development is a Lifelong Process


Model of Career Development

• Know Yourself

• Investigate Options

• Create a Plan

• Experience and Implement


Know Yourself

• Interests

• Skills

• Values

• Personality


Why take the Kuder Career Assessment?

• Interest Inventories are the most frequently used career tools today.

• Research supports match of interests and choice of major or career to promote career satisfaction and success.

• Helps in developing possibilities, does not overrule what you have been considering.

• Customized for ASU, interests connect to ASU Majors on the results pages (Step III).


• Reflect on what is the best fit for you

• Discuss with others

• Meet with Advisors and/or Faculty


• If you still aren’t sure, consult with a Major & Career Counselor.

• Sign up for UNI 194: Career & Major Exploration, a one credit, five-week course.

http://uc.asu.edu/majorexploration/602 496-0589

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Stay Calm, this is a process…

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