Reflection: Know Yourself
Professional Identity Assessments
The first step in the exploration process is knowing yourself through individual reflection. Our online resources below can offer a starting point to help you build a foundation and uncover ideas that can guide you in exploring majors and career paths further.
The Professional Identity Assessment Series allows you to understand what skills, interests, and values are important to you in order to further guide your exploration of LAS majors, internship searches, and career paths of interest.
Professional Identity Interests Assessment
Understanding your interests and personality traits are key ingredients, in addition to skills and values to major exploration. Use the reflection assessments in the tabs below to guide decision making.
Professional Identity Interests Assessment
Use this assessment to explore your interests further and consider how your primary interests are complimented by various majors and career paths.
The O*NET Interest Profiler can help you find out what your interests are and how they relate to the world of work. You can find out what you like to do.
Professional Identity Skills Assessment
Your skills describe what you like to do and what you do well. Skills can be learned and strengthened over time. Your interests should always go hand and hand with your skills, as interests serve as a motivator to use and develop over time. Take this skills assessment and review each skill to consider the range of major or minor roles you would like certain skills of interest to play now and in the future.
Professional Identity Values Assessment
Work values help us understand what is important to us in terms of job satisfaction and help us see how career options incorporate what you think will be important to you in professional roles within the world of work. Use this values assessment to help you make connections between your work values, occupations, and professional goals.
Major Exploration Resources
The Major Exploration resources can help you gather ideas on starting points to explore majors and support your decision-making process.
Major Exploration Resources
Check out these resources to gather new ideas and ways to test out fit with major choices!
What can I do with my LAS Major?
Discover what liberal arts and sciences majors are available in LAS and to narrow your list of majors that may be a fit to explore and support your interests.
Road Trip Nation
Road Trip Nation helps students explore careers through real stories, interviews, and journeys from people who have turned their interests into meaningful work. It is a great tool for major exploration because students can see how different academic paths connect to a wide range of careers and learn that career journeys are often non-linear
What can I do with this major?
What can I do with this major? helps students connect academic majors to possible career paths by showing common job areas, employers, and strategies to build experience while in college. It is especially helpful for exploring how a major can lead to multiple career options and identifying next steps such as internships, professional associations, and related resources.