Discover Your Purpose and Achieve Your Career Goals
- Explore
- Discover the services and resources available to you
- Activate your Handshake account
- Take career assessments to learn more your personality, interests, values, skills, & strengths and what career options to consider.
- Check out What Can I Do with this Major?
- Join student organizations
- Begin building leadership skills through BOLD
- Build your career readiness skills
- Participate in WELL Core –Work WELL
- Gain experience through strategic part-time work
- Take the FOCUS career readiness assessment
- Prepare
- Upload your resume to Handshake for review
- Learn how to tailor your resume & practice your interviewing skills
- Increase your on-campus involvement
- Have career conversations
- Complete internship prerequisites
- Apply for an internship and consult your internship coordinator for course credit
- Study abroad or away, participate in service-learning, missions, or volunteer work
- Review your academic plan and your career plan
- Connect
- Intern and gain relevant experience
- Practice marketing yourself
- Attend Work WELL programs
- Network and contact your Career Development Specialist if you need help – that’s what we’re here for!
- Seek industry advice/mentorship and begin researching organizations
- Reflect on your experiences and plan your next steps
- Stay open to new opportunities!
- Flourish
- Solidify your where you want to begin your career
- Determine where you want to go next
- Grow and maintain industry relationships and
a personal support system - Get involved in relevant professional associations and organizations and off-campus activities
- Apply for positions of interest
- Negotiate for what you need and accept the job offer
- Consider options for continuing education
- Give back to Belmont and your community