What Can I Do With This Major?
- What can I do with this Major? Tutorial
- What can I do with this Major?
- This is an extraordinary resource for instructors to use with students, as it helps
bridge the gap between academic majors and potential career paths. There is an 8-minute
tutorial on how this program works. This program offers invaluable insights, such
as:
- Linking majors to various career fields and identifying potential employers.
- Strategies to boost marketability through skill development and extracurricular activities.
- Providing websites for further research.
- Employment Development Department Occupational Guides: Summary guides of occupations that include job descriptions, job outlook and wages, and qualification requirements.
- Employment Development Department Labor Market Info: The site also includes a self-assessment that identifies your interests and skills and includes links to other valuable information on conducting a job search and job trends.
Self-Scoring Assessments
Check out these great resources - no appointment necessary.
- Career Coach is an interactive assessment that offers a 6-question and 60-question career assesments and relates students’ responses to possible career areas of interest for further exploration. Students can use Career Coach to browse careers by job title or industry and they can browse MiraCosta programs. The Career Coach tool has been customized so that any career of interest can be linked to the MiraCosta program or programs that can prepare students for that career.
- My Next Move: This interactive tool helps students and job seekers learn more about themselves and their career options. The O*NET Interest Profiler offers personalized career suggestions based on a person’s interests and level of work experience. My Next Move has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. My Next Move is developed and maintained by the National Center for O*NET Development, under the sponsorship of the US Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration.
- California Career Zone: The California Career Zone site offers a brief assessment of interests based on Holland’s codes. It also has a 30 minute Interest Profiler that helps students explore vocations based on their interests. The Work Importance Profiler helps students explore their values in the workplace. All assessments are free of charge. There is a fun section called Reality Check that helps students explore their preferred lifestyle and the cost of that lifestyle.
Informational Interviews
Informational Interviews are a great way to gain inside information about a particular occupation. Make an appointment with a career counselor to learn more about this method of job exploration or view this site:
