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Developmental Career Tasks for the College Student

SOPHOMORE: RESEARCH
We see sophomores as individuals needing to dig in their heels to provide a firm footing for the next few years at college. It is a year when they need to move deliberately toward a career identity rather than away from it in confusion. They need to do the following:

• Learn more fully about career planning and decision making by reading a book, taking a course in it, or visiting with Career Services staff
• Consider concrete plans for an exploratory level internship experience
• Explore at least three career options in a major/s of their interest (and decide on a major)
• Learn to use the major career reference guides to research occupations
• Participate in opportunities to job shadow or do career information interviews
• Begin to look for people to serve as references
• Join a professional association as a student to become more familiar with the profession