Career Exploration

The Fullerton College Career Exploration Program in the Career Center offers a variety of ways to assist students with exploring careers and choosing a major. Depending on your needs in the exploration process, you can decide which works best for you. Listed below are the three tracks from which to choose to explore: Self-Exploration, Assisted Exploration, and Guided Career Exploration. Keep in mind, with all the factors that go into choosing educational and career pathways, we encourage students to meet with a career counselor to assist students in their major selection and career decision-making. Whichever way you prefer to do your career exploration, the staff are here to support you in your journey! Join Career Center Canvas to get access to all of our free resources.

Career Exploration Services

Self-Exploration

From career assessments to occupational and educational databases, this is exploration for self-starters. Join Career Center Canvas shell for access to a variety of resources. Be sure to start with the Hornet Career Journey to organize your exploration: Research, Network, Experience! Then, connect with a counselor to kickstart your educational journey.

Hornet Career Journey
Career Assessments
Occupational and Educational Databases

Assisted Exploration

The SuperStrong Journey is a three-step guide to making meaningful choices regarding your educational pathway leading to a career goal. This track offers support with career-decision making rather than just exploring on your own. You will make a college major selection and a semester Student Ed Plan will be created. These steps include:

Interest Assessment
Exploration Activity
Counseling Appointment

Guided Career Exploration

With guidance from our career counseling faculty, students complete career-related assessments (e.g. Strong Interest Inventory and/or Myers Briggs Type Indicator), receive assessment interpretation, explore majors and careers, and create a Student Educational Program Plan. This can be done by doing one of the following:

SuperStrong Journey

In just three simple steps, the SuperStrong Journey will provide you with a guide in making meaningful choices regarding your educational pathway leading to your career goal. This is perfect for first-year students.

Learn more about the SuperStrong Journey below.

SuperStrong Journey

Career Exploration Experience

Learn more about your interests and/or personality, how these impact career choices, work environments, and what majors might be best aligned. In this Career Exploration Experience Canvas, modules have been created for students to progress through a series of steps with guidance of a career counselor to explore careers and majors through to completing a purposeful Student Education Program Plan.

Learn more about the Career Exploration Experience below.

Career Exploration Experience