Major& Career Exploration Resources

The following sites help you explore majors & careers and industries. Professional staff from the office of Career Services (214 Bartlett Hall; 319-273-6857) are glad to visit with you to discuss your interests and skills and see how they relate to careers.

Majors

Majors Handouts - The handouts (in pdf format) for selected majors and career areas provide information on topics such as selected resources available from the Career Services Library, web resources, possible work settings, occupational titles and employers.

What Can I Do with a Major In - This website helps you connect majors with careers. For each major that interests you, find an outline of common career areas, typical employers, and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities.

Career Cruising - Complete the Career Matchmaker section of this web-based career exploration program to match your interests to possible careers. You can also find detailed information on specific careers and interviews with individuals working in the field. Log in using your UNI ID number. Please contact the UNI office of Career Services, 319-273-6857, if you have trouble accessing Career Cruising from off-campus.

UNI Undergraduate Majors - Find what majors UNI has to offer you by inerest, academic department, or college.

UNI Academic Advising - It works with individuals who are deciding, changing majors, first-year students, and experiencing academic difficulties.

Careers

IWIN Careers - The Iowa Career Resource Guide from the Iowa Workforce Development provides information to assist individuals with career planning and aid them in making informed career choices.

Occupational Outlook Handbook - Search by keyword or index for information on training and education, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, working conditions, and related occupations.

O*Net Online - Find occupational information relating to tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, work activities and context, interests, work values, wages and employment and realted occupations.

Explore Health Careers - This is an interactive health careers website designed to explain the array of health professions and provide easy access to students seeking information about health careers.

Career Guide to Industries - Search by keyword or index for information on occupations in the industry, training and advancement, earnings, expected job prospects, and working conditions.

America's Career Infonet - Review occupational profiles including wages, employment trends, knowledge, skills and abilities, education and training, and link to other web resources.

CareerOneStop- Explore Careers - Find more about self-assessments, occupations and industries, employment trends, skills, and more.

Career Voyagers - Explore high demand occupations and find which industries are growing.

UNI Career Services Library (CSL) - For additional resources you can search the UNI Career Services Library or the Rod Library collection using a keyword search with the term major or vocational guidance.

Related Videos

Career Videos - Watch online videos showing people working in specific occupations. These short clips give details about career options that might help you to make an informed choice.

School To Career Videos - The Iowa Public Television (IPTV) School to Careers worksite offers information on over 140 occupations and more than 220 careers - all available in Iowa. Besides information on careers you can e-mail questions to the workers featured for each occupation and, for some of the occupations, you can watch a short video describing the work that is being done.

Career Videos (Careermag.com) - About 350 career videos organized by category and careers in that category.

 

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