Exploring Majors & Careers | Quick Tip Sheet

This worksheet is designed to help you learn about majors and careers. By following the prompts and resources in this worksheet, you will:

• Explore majors and career options by using assessments, university resources, and career exploration tools to identify areas that align with your interests, skills, and goals.
• Evaluate majors and career paths by researching academic requirements, career opportunities, job outlook, and employer expectations to make informed decisions.
• Develop a personalized plan for choosing a major and exploring careers through networking, experiential learning, internships, job shadowing, and campus resources.
• Increase your confidence in making academic and career decisions by identifying next steps and creating an action plan to move toward your educational and professional goals.

By working through this worksheet, you’ll learn how to find information about majors at URI and the careers that are related to them.

How to Use This Resource

To access the Quick Tip Sheet, click the button labeled “View Resource” at the bottom of this page. The Quick Tip Sheet will open in a Google Doc.

Select File > Make a Copy to save an editable file to your own Google Drive, or File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx) if you’d prefer to work in Microsoft Word.