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• About the UCC
  • Overview
  • Administration
  • Career Education
  • Career Networks
  • Student Employment
  • Peer Career Assistants
  • Getting to the Career Center
  • Career Services at KU
• Students
  • Overview
  • Career Courses
    • PRE 210: Career & Life Planning
    • Preparing for International Careers
    • LA&S 492: Job Search Strategies for LA&S Students
    • PRE 575: Internship Exploration
  • Peace Corps
    • Applying for the Peace Corps
    • Preparing for the Peace Corps
    • Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
    • Peace Corps Resources
  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • School of Education
  • School of Social Welfare
  • Edwards Campus
    • Edwards Campus Career Resources
  • Delta Epsilon Iota
    • DEI Volunteer/Event Reporting
    • DEI Scholarships
    • Volunteer
    • Professional Clothing Closet
    • DEI Accomplishments
  • Students with Disabilities
    • Workforce Recruitment Program
  • International Students
  • Certification Programs
  • Deciding Students
  • Student Alumni Association
  • LGBT Resources
  • Student Veterans
• Employers
  • Overview
  • Posting Positions
    • Part-Time
    • Internship
    • Full-Time Professional
  • Networking Events
    • Event Listing
  • On-Campus Interviews
  • Consulting Services
  • Employer Partners
  • Policies & Procedures
• Alumni
  • Overview
• Faculty/Staff
  • Overview
  • Request a Workshop
  • Internship Information
• Parents
  • Overview
  • Part-Time Jobs for Students
  • Parent Newsletter
• Career Resources
  • Career Assessments
  • Career Coaching
  • Careers and KU Majors
  • Cover Letters
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Full-Time Jobs & Internships
  • Government & Non-Profit
  • Graduate School
  • Internship Center
    • Internship Reporting
    • The Jayhawk Internship Experience
    • Find an Internship
    • Receive Academic Credit for your Internship
    • Internship Housing
    • Internship Group
    • Learn where other Jayhawks have interned
  • Interviewing
    • Practice Questions
    • OptimalInterview
  • Jayhawk Journey
  • Job Listings
    • Regional Job Listings
    • National Job Listings
    • International Job Listings
  • Job Search Strategy
    • Employer Research
    • Informational Interviewing
    • Networking
    • Salary Negotiation
    • Online Networking
  • Part-Time Jobs
    • Employers
    • Kansas Career Work Study
    • YES Tutoring
  • Professional Image
    • Online Image
  • Reference Letter Files
    • Information for Medical Reference Letter File
  • Resumes
    • Resume Dropbox
    • OptimalResume
  • Volunteering
  • Working Abroad

Click on the image to download the PDF edition of Jayhawk Journey.  The file is approximately 4 megabytes.

Being a Jayhawk means you are committed to learning, and open to experiences and ideas that will challenge and strengthen you. Along your career journey, you will discover new things about yourself and the world around you that will help you grow and develop both personally and professionally.

The University Career Center has developed this guide to help you identify your passions and turn them into meaningful career opportunities. Keep in mind that your career journey is a process and does not end once you decide on a major or occupation. Therefore, you may want to revisit this guide periodically to reassess changes in yourself and the world of work.

We have organized this guide into four parts, but it does not have to be completed in any particular order. Read through the descriptions and begin your journey with the area that best describes where you are in the career development process.  Throughout the guide you will be presented with a number of activities indicated by a green light:
Click on the image to visit the activities for the section you are on.  You must be logged into KUCareerHawk.com in order to access the online activities.


click on any of the following headers to take your journey

Your interests, skills, and values heavily influence the decisions you make. This part of your career journey involves gaining knowledge about yourself and understanding your personal characteristics and needs.

This leg of your journey involves gathering information about the many careers and occupational fields available to you.

In this part of your career journey, you will learn different ways to "test drive" careers you are considering and gain valuable skills for the job market.

This leg of the journey involves integrating the knowledge you gain about yourself and the world of work to help you develop a career plan to explore further.

About Us
University Career Center
The University of Kansas
110 Burge Union
1601 Irving Hill Road • Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-3624 • ucc@ku.edu