Explore Careers

Are you thinking about your career and long-term goals? Do you want to use what you studied here at UConn in your first job or a career? Are you considering if graduate school is the right option for you?

Here are a few quick steps to help you start answering these questions and learning how your UConn experience is preparing you for your career after college.

  • Take a self assessment to learn more about your interests and values and see a sampling of careers that may be a good fit for you
  • Join a Career Community to learn about career opportunities in a broad area of interest:
  • Attend career events like information sessions and career fairs where you can connect with employers and learn more about available roles
  • Speak to a professional through informational interviewing to learn about a day in the life on the job and to make valuable contacts for your job search.

You may benefit from meeting with a Career Coach to process next steps and get a personal guide for your journey. We can help you out no matter where you are in your process. Scheduling an appointment with a coach can be done through 12twenty.

Frequently Asked Questions 

Here are quick answers to the most common questions we get about Exploring Careers. For further questions about our responses or any other questions, schedule an appointment with a career coach and get a personal guide for your journey. We can help you out no matter where you are in your process. Scheduling an appointment with a coach can be done through 12twenty.

In most cases, you can pursue any career with any major/field of study. This may sound like a stretch, but career paths are often not linear, and many skills learned in one industry are transferrable to another. You may need to pursue some additional training or education, but majors/fields of study and careers are not mutually exclusive. 

Find out by visiting our undergraduate student outcomes data or looking at UConn alumni profiles on LinkedIn. Keep in mind that these data sets provide some examples but don’tnecessarily paint a full picture of career possibilities with your degree. 

You should finalize your career decision when you’re ready to. For some students, that may be before they even get to UConn, and for others, that may be years after graduation. Also, even after some students finalize their career decision, they change their mind. Everyone arrives at their career decision in a different way, and no path or timeline is better than another. By graduation, you should finalize a next step for your professional journey, but you don’t need to finalize your whole career.

No. Choosing a career path is a very personal decision, and it’s one that can only be made by you. Career coaches can share information about career options and ask youquestions to help you explore those careers, but at the end of the day, you’re the final decision-maker. 

Featured Resources

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Additional Resources for Grad Students

ChemIDP is an individual development planning tool for graduate students and postdocs in the chemical sciences

A career exploration and planning tool for the sciences.

Search jobs within and outside of higher education, engage with news, and access faculty compensation survey data.

Expand Your Career Options and Employer Insights are two signature events specifically tailored to graduate students (master’s and doctoral) and postdoctoral scholars. Both …