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🧭 Career Exploration: Start Within

🧭 Career Exploration: Start Within

Whether you hope to align your passions with a certain career or just need a job to help you get settled, this guide will help you explore the possibilities and narrow down your options. You'll identify your strengths through recommended personality tests and find resources for exploring different careers. Curated by An Ha, who graduated college with no idea what to do and is currently in love with UX Design.

Need Help Introspecting? Update Your Resume!

Take the time to update your resume. Reflect on your past experiences while getting that necessary task done. (Two birds one stone!) Identify the ones you've enjoyed to assess your preferences moving forward. To get started, check out the topic page titled 'Level Up Your Resume'

Ikigai: The Combination of Purpose, Life, and Work

Ikigai is a Japanese concept that translates to "a reason for being" or "a reason to live." Like this graphic, it is often represented as the intersection of four elements: what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can

Join Discord's #Job-Search Community

When you're ready to start looking, join ASU for Life's Discord channel dedicated to #job-search to explore more with the support of a community. You'll need to create a Discord account. You don't have to use your full name. For more, see

Enroll in "Designing Your Career"

Stanford University created this free self-paced 5 week online course to help learners discover their possible vocation through design thinking. Learn more and enroll here. Designing Your CareerWelcome to the Designing Your Career module. Whether you’re exploring what you might want to do next or you’ve already identified

Be Guided by Your Curiosity

Listen to Shelby Lawson share her career journey that started with her curiosity about the lack of diversity in the fitness industry.

Try this Interest Profiler test

Similar to the Guardian’s personality, this tool also categorizes your interests, but it then also provides specific careers based on level of preparation. Created by the US Department of Labor, the O*NET Interest Profiler is a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's

Consider Your Interests

When you're invested in your work, you're more likely to be engaged and motivated, leading to better performance and job satisfaction. Aligning your interests with your career can lead to a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose, because you're contributing to something that you