Find the support you want and need in every step of your college and career journey.
TheCareer Exploration Center works closely with the Office of Academic Advising to offer you an integrated four-year journey. From self-awareness and academic exploration in your first year to pursuing career and graduate program opportunities, we're with you every step of the way.
Professional Development Goals
- Explore your strengths and interests and make connections to your academic and career journey
- Use blueprint to set goals and begin discovery
- Incorporate professional awareness and build a toolkit through your digital portfolio
Professional Development Journey
- Identify resources for experiential learning
- Complete SUM 120: Career Exploration lab - communication, career research, transferable skills
Professional Development Goals
- Join Career Communities
- Connect your academic experiences to future opportunities (internships, careers, cultural growth, mentored research)
- Deepen your self-awareness of your strengths to inform your selection of academic major
Professional Development Journey
- Attend Internship Search/Funding workshops
- SCALE prep (professional presence, communication)
- Build career literacy through meaningful work events, informational interviews, and majors exploration
Professional Development Goals
- Deepen transferable skills aligned with career goals
- Strengthen your professional experience and exposure with meaningful internship and mentored research experiences
Professional Development Journey
- Participate in career community-specific opportunities, networking, and recruiting
- Polish your professionalism through one-on-one coaching (practice interviews, cover letter review, 360 feedback)
- Pursue meaningful summer internship or mentored research experience
- Attend Internship, Job, and Graduate School Fairs
Professional Development Goals
- Pursue post-graduation jobs and graduate programs with professional confidence, self-awareness, and knowledge of opportunities
- Leverage your network and experience to reach your goals
Professional Development Journey
- Fine-tune your personal toolkit – resume, LinkedIn, cover letters and personal statements
- Polish your "personal selling" skills via senior career and post-Agnes success workshops
- Request graduate school application assistance
- Research options and create a post-college career plan
Throughout your four years, you can access:
- Career literacy programming, centered around regular Meaningful Work panels, speakers and Career Treks to local companies and organizations in a variety of industries and positions
- Professional development with staff and alumnae, professionalism workshops, resume review, practice interviews and role-playing
- Strengths-based coaching, including group workshops and one-on-one sessions with the Office of Internship and Career Development
- Interview-appropriate attire coaching with a career stylist through Dress for Success, a nonprofit partner of the Office of Internship and Career Development