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Freshman Year

• Locate and explore the Counseling Center.
• Locate and explore the Career Center.
• Begin an assessment of personal interests and skills.
• Make an appointment with a counselor in the Counseling Center.
• Explore various majors that interest you.

Sophomore Year

• Explore career opportunities related to academic areas of interest.
• Choose a major or re-evaluate your present choice.
• Consider career-related activities (e.g., summer employment, part-time work, volunteer jobs, student organizations) to help you explore beyond the academic environment.

Junior Year

• Continue to explore career opportunities related to your major.
  
• Talk to people who are working in fields you think you'd like. What do they do? (Information Interview)
• If graduate school is an option, take entrance exams (GRE, GMAT, MAT, LSAT, etc.) and start application process.
  
• Inventory skills and abilities that you have developed appropriate to the world of work.

Senior Year

• Go to the Career Center to check on the campus recruitment schedule.
• Initiate a job search with the Career Center; identify potential employers, research employers and companies, network, develop or refine résumé(s), and interview.