Explore Your Interests / Self Assessments
This virtual online community is dedicated to helping individuals explore their interests and gain insights into potential career paths through self-assessments and guided activities. Below you will find tools that help identify strengths, passions, and values, enabling you to make more informed decisions about your professional future. Whether you’re uncertain about your next step or seeking clarity in your career journey, this community provides the resources and support needed to discover your ideal path.
Get Started
Understand different majors, what you want in a major, and how they fit into your long-term career plans
- Use What Can I Do with This Major? to research
- Record your thoughts
- For more help, make an in-person appointment at our office and ask to complete the “KU Majors Card Sort Activity” with a UCC Advisor.
Take a Career Assessment
Career assessments can help guide you toward majors and occupations that align with your interests, personality, values, and workplace preferences.
- Complete a free PathwayU assessment
- For a more in-depth assessment, contact a career advisor to take the “Strong Interest Inventory,” which gives your top 20 majors and careers based on your answers.
Connect with People with Similar Interests
- Use Rock Chalk Central to research student organizations that are aligned with your top majors and decide which ones you want to try attending. Mark the next meeting(s) on your calendar.
- Visit your professors during their office hours and talk to them about your interest in pursuing the major. Ask them about potential career paths and what people tend to do with the major.
- Research KU alum on LinkedIn and KUMenorting+ who are doing jobs that interest you. Use keywords like “Art Director,” and see what they majored in to get there.
Test your Career Ideas
- Meet with a Career Advisor to talk about relevant internships, part-time jobs, volunteering, and/or shadowing opportunities and how to find them
- Spend time reading job descriptions, then take note of the jobs that appeal to you
- Decide on a few opportunities that you would like to apply to, then meet with an advisor for help with your materials
