Listed below are a few resources to help you along in your career exploration, decision-making and planning journey. You may also schedule an appointment with a career counselor in Career Services, who can help you to more fully assess your values, skills, and talents, introduce you to different careers, and help address questions that arise along the way.

Career Planning Guide
Helpful Resources in Career Services and SII / MBTI Inventories
Researching Careers

HELPFUL RESOURCES IN CAREER SERVICES

Individual Counseling
Stop in or give us a call to set up a time to meet one-on-one with one of our counselors. We would be thrilled to talk with you about making career choices.

Strong Interest Inventory and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Click here for full instructions to complete the SII and/or MBTI online assessments.

The Strong Interest Inventory® (SII) is a great career assessment tool for individuals seeking guidance and direction on major and/or career exploration, decision making and planning. It is free to Beloit College students and alumni. The assessment allows you to reflect on your interests and skills, and learn about possible career, educational and leisure option compatibilities based on your personal characteristics. The SII includes online questionnaires regarding your interests and skills, which take approximately 45-60 minutes to complete. They can be completed from any computer with Internet access. The SII assessment also requires at least one follow up session with a staff member in the Liberal Arts and Practice Center. In the follow up session you will receive a copy of your SII results, go through a comprehensive interpretation of those results, and discuss needs, options and the next steps in your career planning process.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) is a personality assessment that offers insight into an individual's personality attributes and strengths and weaknesses inherent to them. The MBTI may provide information useful for exploring career areas and industries that fit your personality type. The online questionnaire will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete, and requires at least minute follow up session with a staff member in the Liberal Arts in Practice Center to provide you with a copy of your MBTI results and provide a full interpretation of those results.

Externships/Job Shadowing
If you are unable to commit the time to an internship, this is the next best thing. An externship is the opportunity to shadow someone on the job. Only by actually seeing or experiencing what someone does firsthand will you get a real sense of what is involved. We have many community and alumni connections and can help you get set up with a practicing professional.

Alumni Networking
Connect with Beloit College alumni through Alumni Networking for:

• Learning about alumni careers
• Informational interviews - conversations about career experiences, choices, graduate school, etc.
• Externships (job shadow opportunities)
• Finding summer housing
• Learning about and connecting with internship or job openings

Prior to making the contacts, we encourage you to talk with a career counselor in Career Services and review our Networking Guide to learn about professional etiquette, networking best practices and strategies.

Internships
Learning by doing is a critical piece in making career decisions. Take a look at the Internship section of our site for a description of our programs.

Career Services Library
We have hundreds of books, many designed specifically to help you research various careers, industries, and options in your major field of study. From describing a typical day on the job to outlook and salary data, these books can be very helpful.

What Can I Do With This Major?

What Can I Do With This Major?
This page contains a list of majors with corresponding career fields for each. It also includes ideas for typical employers, things you can do to prepare before graduating, and a list of related links to professional associations and job search sites.

Departmental Websites at Beloit College
Before you leap off campus, be sure to check out your major/minor departmental website for great resources.

JobWeb
Maintained by the premier career development organization in the U.S., the National Association of Colleges and Employers, this site is a treasure trove of career-related assistance including articles, advice, and related links.

Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
The OOH is the federal government's outstanding on-line database on career guidance including descriptions for just about every career you can think of, employment outlook, salary and more.

O*Net
Another government site similar to the OOH but with descriptions of hundreds of more jobs (sacrifices depth for breadth). This is the on-line version of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), a career standard.

CareerOneStop
Contains both research and self-assessment information. When arriving at their homepage, click on Explore Careers.

CareerZone
Access great information on hundreds of career fields categorized by broad occupational cluster or by Holland Code.

JobShadow
A collection of responses to interview questions from professionals in various careers that offer insight into the careers, as well as strategies for preparing for and entering the careers.

The Princeton Review
This site includes information on careers, what you can do with various majors, and lists for each major.

Wall Street Journal's JobStar Central
Lots of great information categorized by major and industry.

Prentice Hall
Contains good information on choosing a major in terms of what you can expect for coursework, career directions etc.

What Color is Your Parachute
Richard Nelson Bolles, the author of this annually updated best selling book on career choice and job search, offers on-line assistance for those in the self-assessment and career research phases of planning.