The news has highlighted that from entry level graduate to experienced job seeker people are looking for new employment!
Your degree and transferable skills are keys to your next job opportunity!
Match Degree Program to Another Career
Our Explore Careers and College Major Programs has two programs that help you to explore careers using two methods –
- Explore Occupations by Job families
- What Can I Do If I Majored In
Explore Occupations by Job Family
To research the careers using Explore Occupations by Job Family, go the Explore Occupations by Job Family
- Look on the Main Menu page under Explore the Possibilities section.
- Click on the Explore Occupations by Job Family link.
See some of the Job Families –
- Architecture & Engineering
- Arts, Entertainment, Sports, & Media
- Building & Grounds Maintenance
- Business & Financial
- Community & Social Service
- Computer & Mathematical
- Construction & Extraction
- Education & Training
- Farming, Fishing, & Forestry
- Food Service
- Healthcare Practitioners & Technical
- Healthcare Support
- Installation, Maintenance, & Repair
- Legal
- Life, Physical, & Social Science
- Management
- Office & Administrative Support
- Personal Care & Service
- Production
- Protective Service
Open the job family that interests you. You will find a few different occupations.
For example, Education & Training occupations are -
- Agricultural Sciences Professor
- Anthropology and Archeology Professor
- Aquarium Curator
- Architecture Professor
- Archivist
- Area and Cultural Studies Professor
- Art, Drama, & Music Professors
- Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
- Biology Professor
- Business Professor
- Career / Technical Education Teacher
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
- Chemistry Professor
- Communications Professor
- Computer Science Professor
- Criminal Justice Professor
- Curriculum and Assessment Director
Click on an occupation. An Occupational Details web page appears.
The different sections in the career profile are –
- Occupational Overview
- Earnings
- Outlook
- Training
- Job Tasks
- Work Interest Profile
- Values
- Skills
- Education Requirements
- Professional Associations
What Can I Do If I Majored In …
The What Can I Do If I Majored In covers information about some of the following college majors –
- Agriculture and Related Sciences
- Architecture
- Area, Ethnic and Gender Studies
- Basic Skills and Developmental/Remedial Education
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Business, Management and Marketing
- Citizenship Activities
- Communication and Journalism
- Communication Technology
- Computer and Information Sciences
- Construction Trades
- Culinary, Entertainment, and Personal Services
- Education
- Engineering
- Engineering Technologies
- Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics
Go to the What Can I Do If I Majored In Tool.
On the What Can I Do If I Majored In, click the desired major.
As an example, clicked on Education.
Related Majors appear. You go down the list until you find the right major, for example Counselor Education - School Counseling and Guidance Services.
The Counselor Education page appears. On the page, there is a college program/ major description. You can save or print the description.
Under the program title and description, there is a list of potential careers matched to the desired major. Scroll down, view, click or save the desired occupation, for example: Career, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors.
Scroll down to the Educational Requirements. You will again see desired college majors –
- Counselor Psychology
- Counselor Education – School Counseling and Guidance Services
- Education
- Psychology
- School Psychology
For example: Counselor Education - School Counseling and Guidance Services.
A program that prepares individuals to apply the theory and principles of guidance and counseling to the provision of support for the personal, social, educational, and vocational development of students, and the organizing of guidance services within elementary, middle and secondary educational institutions. Includes instruction in legal and professional requirements, therapeutic counselor intervention, vocational counseling, and related sociological and psychological foundations.
References
There are excellent web sites that provide match careers to your degree. University web sites list web pages that match majors/ degrees to the following areas –
- Common Career Paths
- Employers
- Strategies
- Common Employers
- Getting Started and Advancing Steps
- Professional Associations
- Occupational Outlook
- Employment Opportunities
- Related Resources
The most common reference resource is https://whatcanidowiththismajor.com/ from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
- Facing entry-level job crunch, new grads question the value of a degree (Washingtonpost.com)
- Young Graduates Are Facing an Employment Crisis (Wall Street Journal)
- New grads are struggling to find jobs and they’re being locked out of the labor market because of 3 key factors (Fortune)
- New Grads Are Facing Major Challenges Finding Work. Here’s Why (Inc.)
- Layoffs, Job Market Trigger Record Low For Employee Confidence Index (Forbes)
- The Jobs Market Is Starting to Fall Apart (Wall Street Journal)
- Thousands of laid-off government workers are flooding a shrinking job market (Fortune)
- What Can I Do With This Major. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, https://whatcanidowiththismajor.com/ 2023 This web site is used by many universities!
- What Can I Do With A Majors UC Berkeley. Career Engagement https://career.berkeley.edu/start-exploring/majors-to-career/what-can-i-do-with-a-major-in/, 2025
- What Can I Do With This Major? University Career Center, University of Michigan, Youtube video!
- What Can I Do With This Major? Youtube Video University of North Texas video
- What Can I Do With A Major In...? Loyola University Maryland https://www.loyola.edu/department/career-center/resources/major-career-exploration/majors/
- What Can I Do With A Major In? Middle Tennessee State University, 2025 https://www.mtsu.edu/career/majors/
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