Exploratory

Join the Exploratory career interest area in Handshake:

1. Log in to Handshake
2. Click on your name in the top right corner of the screen
3. Select 'Career Interests'
4. Navigate to the question 'In what career interest areas are you most interested?'
5. Select the 'Exploratory' career interest area
6. Click the 'Save My Career Interests Button'

Explore offerings in departments, programs and centers such as these:

• Academic Bulletin
• Case School of Engineering
• College of Arts and Sciences
• Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
• Weatherhead School of Management
• Office of Undergraduate Studies
• SAGES
• Your navigator 

• Career assessments
• CareerOneStop: a collection of videos on hundreds of different careers
• MyPlan
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• O*NET Online
• Vault Guides
• "What Can I Do with this Major?"

Experiential education opportunities

• Career Connections spring break shadowing for first and second year undergrads
• Civic engagement
• Co-operative Education
• Education abroad 
• Entrepreneurship / starting a business
  • CWRU LaunchNet
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Practicum Program
• Undergraduate research

Find jobs and internships

• Handshake
• CareerShift
• Glassdoor
• Indeed
• Internships.com
• Idealist
• LinkedIn
• USAJobs

• CWRU graduate programs
• Graduate and professional school planning with Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education
• GradSchools.com
• Graduate School Admission Process for STEM
• Peterson's
• Writing Personal Statements for the Social Sciences
• Gap Year Options

Networking the best way to tap into the hidden job market—an immense underground marketplace where jobs open up and then are filled through word of mouth and personal referrals.

There are many ways to network at CWRU:

• Alumni Career Network
• Career fairs
• CareerShift
• Events with employers
• Informational Interviews
• LinkedIn

• List of professional associations by industry from JobStars USA
• Professional association finder from CareerOneStop

For a full list of student clubs and organizations that match your interests, visit CampusGroups.

• College Majors 101: gain major insights from over 150+ majors
• Most popular college majors
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: furnished by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, this guide is the government's premier source of career guidance featuring hundreds of occupations
• O*NET Online: a tool for career exploration and job analysis
• Statistics on undergraduate degree fields: a report from the National Center for Education Statistics, last updated May 2019
• Read about outcomes and data for CWRU students