Career Planning

Career Planning by Area

• Career Planning for Business Majors
• Career Planning for Humanities Majors
• Career Planning for Science Majors
• Career Planning for Social Sciences
• Career Planning for the Arts

Education

• Educational Computing & Technology Certificate at UMD
• What do I Put in a Teaching Portfolio?
• What Else Can I do with a Degree in Education?
• What is edTPA? [Education]
• What Tests are Needed to be a Teacher in Minnesota?
• Why Make a Teaching Portfolio

Government

• Joining the Peace Corps
• My Potential Plans After Graduation: AmeriCorps
• Score a Career with the US Government, Part 1 [USAJobs]
• Score a Career with the US Government, Part 2 [Using the Resume Builder on USAJobs]
• Score a Career with the US Government, Part 3 [Pathways Internship Program]

Post-College

• 5 Lessons Learned While Being in the Real World for Over a Year
• APIA Leadership: Beyond the Boat
• Bad Grades Don’t Mean a Bad Employee
• Finding Adventure in the “Transition Phase”
• Now That Spring Semester is Over…  [Starting the job search]
• Post-College Uncertainty? Oh Yeah, It’s Real
• The Top 3 Things to Take Away From “10 Career Tips for 20-Somethings”
• Tips for Success in Your 20s
• Where do You See Yourself in 10 Years?

Advice and Tips

• 10 Pieces of Advice for the Class of 2014
• Achieving Your Career Goals
• Advice on Transferable Skills from a Theatre Major
• Career Advice From Tabletop Gaming
• Career Moves You’ll Regret
• Change is Hard
• Dare to be You
• Don’t Get Stuck: A College Student’s Guide, Part 4 [Research Careers]
• Find Your Fit [in a major or career]
• Finding Inspiration in Your Field of Study
• Getting Ahead as an Introvert
• Going Above and Beyond
• Have It Your Way [Picking a Career Right for You]
• How to Use the Graduate Follow-up Report
• Learning From a Not So Great Experience
• Learning From Mistakes (aka: Insightful Moments)
• Lessons Learned from Transferring to UMD
• Life Lessons in Anthropology
• Mentors: We Can’t All be Superhuman
• Putting the Assessments All Together
• Reaching Your Goals (Even When You Don’t Feel Like It)
• Self-Reliance: The Key to Success
• Senior Year: Anything Can Happen
• The Big “I” Word
• The Last Semester (Pt 1): The Bottomless Abyss that is Life After Graduation
• The Last Semester (Pt 2): Light at the End of the Tunnel
• The Three C’s to Success
• The Truth About Career Success
• Tips for Success in Your 20s
• Tips on Grammar
• Your Motives for Doing What You Do [Career Values]

Pop Culture Career Lessons

• 10 Lessons We Learned from The Office
• A Guide To Being a Woman in the Workplace, by Leslie Knope
• Bringing the Magic to Life: What Harry Potter Taught Me About Myself
• Bringing the Magic to Life: What Harry Potter Taught Me About Others
• Bringing the Magic to Life: What Harry Potter Taught Me About Success
• Career Advice from The Wolf of Wall Street
• Career Lessons from Lord of the Rings
• Career Planning From Your Favorite TV Shows
• Classic Songs that Describe Your College Experience
• Disney Career Lessons
• Everything I Need to Know About Finding a Job I Learned from Weird Al Songs
• Game of Thrones Characters Choose Characters
• How to Make Your Life Legen-wait-for-it-DARY!
• Lessons Learned from Disney
• Pop Culture Career Lessons
• Senior Year as Coffee Drinks

Other

• 5 Lessons of Career Development
• Career Planning Process: Explore Options
• Career Resources for Veterans
• Finding a Career in Student Affairs
• Finding Current Trends
• From the Desk of a Peer Educator [from the Student Life Parent Newsletter]
• How I Figured Out What I Want to be When I Grow Up
• I Have No Idea What I’m Doing, But I Know I’m Doing it Really, Really Well
• Other Career Blogs to Check Out
• Services for Veterans
• TEDTalks for Your Career
• The Road to the Dream Job
• Working with Nonprofit Organizations