Small steps now lead to big moves later.
For First-Year Freshmen • First-Year Transfer • First-Year Graduate Students
Start building your future with a simple, flexible plan. Use this step to explore your career interests, discover new pathways, and begin shaping your professional story.
What To Do
Open each item to find links, tools, and support to help you take action.
- Use our Career Adventure Checklist to identify career-relevant experiences you’d like to include on your college resume.
- Then use the Career Action Plan Template to map out your next steps and set target dates to achieve them.
- Log in to your Handshake account using your campus email address.
- Add your potential career interests to get personalized events and opportunities.
- Not sure what to enter? Use What Can I Do with This Major or take our Focus2 career assessment.
- Upload your professional photo; take one for free at our Career Photo Booth. Not sure what to wear for your photo? Visit our Career Clothing Closet for ideas.
- Draft your first professional introduction using our Professional Brand Worksheet.
- Reflect on what excites you, what matters to you, and how you want to contribute in the world of work—use it to introduce yourself to professors and professionals.
- Start building your professional style to show up with confidence at career events; get the look that reflects your future at the Career Clothing Closet.
We’re Here to Help
Career Guides
Get Support
Schedule a Career Exploration & Planning appointment with the Career Center using Navigate LA (Student Life & Wellness).
Call: 323.343.3237
Email: [email protected]
Visit: Between the Student Health Center and the University Gym
Hours: M-Th, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. and F, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.