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Developmental Career Tasks for the College Student

FRESHMAN: QUESTIONS
We see freshmen as individuals needing to ask a myriad of questions about careers and how their unique gifts fit a particular occupational field. They do not need to be decided about a major at this point in time. They need to do the following:

• Start a career information file to later develop into a professional portfolio
• Begin examining their life purpose and mission
• Familiarize themselves with Career Services and its Web site
• Take formal and informal assessments to learn about work values, interests, skills, and personalities
• Look at the possibilities for university membership in organizations, ways to volunteer, gather information at job and career fairs
• Talk with faculty and students about particular majors; use the catalog
• Become familiar with the entire scope of what the world of work has to offer