2025 Career Discovery Series
Are you a student who is unsure about your career direction? You’re not alone! The Career Discovery Series is designed to guide undergraduate students through the process of career exploration and discovery. Join us to gain the resources, strategies, and actionable steps you need to identify a career path that aligns with your values, personality traits, and goals.
Through engaging workshops, self-assessments, and an inspiring alumni panel, you’ll learn how to navigate your unique career journey with confidence.
What You'll Gain:
- Self-Insight: Understand your values, personality, and interests and how they connect to career options.
- Practical Strategies: Discover tools and resources to explore careers, learn about industries, and uncover what you can do with your major.
- Tangible Actions: Develop an actionable plan to guide your career journey.
- Networking Opportunities: Hear from successful UCI alumni and connect with peers who are also exploring their future.
Register now and gain the clarity and confidence to explore your possibilities!
Week 5
In-Person: How Can I Find a Career That Fits Me?
Date: Monday, February 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: DCP Training Room
In-Person: What Can I Do With My Major?
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: DCP Training Room
In-Person: Using AI to Explore Careers
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: DCP Training Room
Week 6
In-Person: Test Drive Your Future
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Location: DCP Training Room
In-Person: Career Success Stories - UCI Alumni Panel & Networking
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Time: 4:00 – 5:15 PM
Location: DCP Training Room
Hear from UCI alumni speakers from the following companies:
Why Attend?
This series is perfect for students who:
- Are unsure of their career direction.
- Want to learn how to align their major and interests with career options.
- Are looking for practical tools and resources to guide their career journey.
- Are ready to take the first step in exploring meaningful and fulfilling careers.
Resources to Explore
Focus 2 Career: A free self-paced career and educational planning assessment tool. It will enable you to self-assess your career-relevant personal qualities and explore career fields and areas of study that are most compatible with your assessment results.
Steppingblocks: UCI students, faculty, and staff can immediately access UCI alumni data and rich employer insights to analyze a range of career paths based on job title, company, location, major, school, and more.
Vault: The Vault's Job Guides provides over 125 eBooks covering nearly all industries (from A to Z) featuring Wikipedia-like entries for dozens of jobs within each industry, for approximately 5,000 job entries total. Entries emphasize preparing for a career and getting your foot in the door. Note: Access available to all on campus. Off-campus access requires VPN (active UCInetID).
Forage: Bite-sized 5-6 hour virtual work experience programs that give students a genuine career advantage with Fortune 500 companies.
Micro-Internships with Parker Dewey: Micro-Internships are short-term, paid, project-based assignments that are similar to those given to new hires or interns. Participating in micro-internships helps you explore different career paths while building your portfolio, expanding your network, and developing your skills as you seek the right full-time role.