Exploring Careers

Assessing Your Interests and Values

  • Watch the following video on the Five-Step Career Decision Making Process which includes:
    1. Self-Assessment
    2. Identify and Research Options
    3. Evaluate and Prioritize
    4. Take Action and Try Options
    5. Reflect and Re-evaluate

Consider both the Job Function and Industry 

  • When researching various career pathways and jobs, it’s important to look at both the industry and job function.
  • Industry refers to a field, often named for its primary product/service, such as the Aerospace or Technology Industry.
  • Job functions are the roles within an industry, such as an engineer or marketing expert, and are often found in all industries.
  • For example, Jane is a finance manager at Google, so she is in the technology industry, but her job function is finance.
  • The job function is the expertise you build and is transferable throughout your career, across industries.

Career Pathways

  • Explore a broad range of career paths and interest areas. Students are not limited to just one career pathway and OCS recommends exploring broadly across several fields. Select Explore Careers at the top menu to view over 20 specific pages on industries and graduate school with events, articles, job postings for that particular topic.

Skills Evaluation

  • Use the Skills Discovery Tool below to identify the most important skills needed for a specific job title, industry, or occupation.

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EHS Summer Marketing Ambassador-Intern Position

Internship Dates: May 22, 2025 – August 10, 2025 (15-20 hours/week)

Compensation: $16 per hour, free housing in NYC provided by Educational Housing Services during the Summer 2025 semester, and two Unlimited Ride MetroCards (or similar) to help cover transportation …

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Summer Experience Checklist

Congratulations on securing your experience! Now it’s time to plan your experience to make the most of your professional development.

Before Your Experience
Set Goals

Goals will assist with initial conversations with your supervisor, and serve as a guide in …

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Skills Discovery ToolIn partnership withLightcast logo

Explore occupations by career categories and pathways and use real time labor market data to power your decision making.

First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

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YC Career Outcomes

The Office of Career Strategy collects information about Yale College graduates. This tool allows users to search outcomes by year and major. Please visit Statistics & Reports for more information on our data collection.

Helpful Tips for the Interactive Tool:

  • There is no Enter or Submit Button, results will appear automatically with your selections
  • The default search setting is ‘All Years’ or ‘All Majors’ and shows results across years and majors
  • You may choose specific years or majors for more granular results. Uncheck the selected major(s) to reset your search.
  • The tool returns results with at least five responses, for small majors, choosing ‘All Years’ is more likely to show results
  • To ensure confidentiality, results are reported in the aggregate and more granular data is not available through this tool.
  • First Destination Summaries are based on the knowledge rate of graduate outcomes six months after graduation according to National Association of Colleges and Employers guidelines.
  • If you require additional information contact the Office of Career Strategy

Most Recent Class Overview

Knowledge Rate Success Rate Mean Starting Salary Top Five Industries
90.3% of those graduating between July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023 94.0% employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation $89,622 among graduates employed full-time in the United States Education, Financial Services, Technology, Consulting, and Healthcare

 

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  • Top Employers
  • Employment Industry and Function
  • Size of the Organization
  • Starting Salary
  • Time of Year Offer Received
  • Internships, Research, and Study Abroad Experiences
  • First Destination Locations
  • Top Universities
  • Advanced Degrees Pursued

First Destination

First Destination refers to the postgraduate plans of Yale College graduates six months after graduation. The pursuits of Yale graduates include employment, graduate school, independent research, military service, and more.

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