What are Your Career Needs?

Navigate our virtual career center or connect with our career counselors to help you:

  • Find a job or internship
  • Identify satisfying career options
  • Research and apply to graduate and professional schools
  • Perfect your résumé, application, personal statements, and cover letters
  • Improve your interview skills and techniques, including mock interviews
  • Inventory your interests, values, and strengths by taking career-related assessments like the Strong Interest Inventory, StrengthsFinder and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (free for students)
  • Generating the best letters of recommendation
  • Practice salary negotiation

Virtual Career Services

How does this work?

At this time, our office is not offering in-person appointments. However, we do offer the following options for connecting:

  • Phone call
  • Video-Conferencing with Google Meets or Hangouts
  • Email Consultations:

Pick a Major or Career

Picking a major can be the easiest or the most difficult decision a college student has to make. Career counselors can help you assess your interests and discuss options.

St. Catherine University offers liberal arts majors and pre-professional programs:

  • A liberal arts education teaches a broad range of skills that are valuable in many professions.
  • Pre-professional programs tend to lead directly into one specific career.

How to Choose a Major

Not sure what you want to study? Set up an appointment with a career counselor to explore your options and even take a personal interests or personality assessment to help you decide. The assessments that we provide free-of-charge to students include:

  • Strong Interest Inventory (SII): Learn what careers are enjoyable to people whose interests are similar to yours.
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Understand your personality type and as a guide toward careers that would utilize your personal strengths and attributes.

When picking a major, think about what you enjoy studying and doing. Stay away from thinking “I should” and think in terms of “I could.”

Investigate majors that interest you:

  • Take classes that spark your interests
  • Speak with faculty.
  • Conduct informational interviews with alumni or family friends about their jobs.
  • Use the resources below for in-depth major information and related career fields.

Discover Career Interests

It can seem like there is an unlimited number of careers. Set up an appointment today to speak with a career counselor about your options and find a good fit for you.

  • Conduct informational interviews with alumni or family friends about their jobs.
  • Volunteer or do an internship in your major.
  • Watch videos featuring working professionals in specific career fields.
  • Research positions and salaries common in your major.
  • Take the Strong Interest Inventory or Myers Briggs Type Indicator assessment to help guide you in the right direction.

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