Career Exploration

Grace Willerton, GCDF
Student Success Specialist, Sr.
gwillert@unm.edu
(505) 663-3402

 

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Picking a Major

Explore your personality, interests, values, priorities, skills, and other traits to see which career options will fit you best. Then discuss your options with your advisor to help you pick a major and start pursuing your long-term goals.
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Career Planning Process

Before you pick a career to pursue for the next 10-40 years, there are many important things to consider to make sure you are going to be satisfied and successful in it. The Career Planning Process walks you through 7 steps to ensure you are on the best path.

Career Planning Process
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Assessments

Student Services offers personal interviews, online resources, and informal assessments in a no-pressure environment to help you identify and sort through your interests, skills, and values related to future career options.

The Myers-Brigs Type Indicator (MBTI) can reveal your personal work style, preferences, and motivations. You can use the language of the results to describe your unique personality and strengths.

The Strong Interest Inventory (Strong) offers insights about your personal interests and how those align with people working happily in various careers. You’ll get descriptions of your preferred working, learning, and leading styles, along with a comparison of your interests to a large sample of workers who are satisfied in their jobs.

These assessments are FREE for students, faculty, and staff. They are also available to community members for a small cost.

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