Explore Careers
Career exploration is essential for making informed choices about your academic and professional future. It allows you to identify your skills, understand industry trends, and align your goals with meaningful opportunities. Your dedicated Exploration Career advisor will guide you every step of the way with personalized advice, tools, and resources to help you feel confident about your future.
Career Exploration Appointments can be scheduled via Handshake:
Career Exploration Resources
Resources for Career Exploration - Start Here
What Can I Do With this Major?
Whether you are exploring majors or looking for more information about your chosen field of study, "What Can I Do With This Major?” is a valuable tool designed to help you connect your major and interests to career paths. This resource details the typical industries, career areas, and employers associated with each major and covers strategies aimed at making you a more marketable candidate after graduation. “What Can I Do With This Major?” is a free, virtual resource available to all Ohio State students.
Vault
Vault Career Engagement Platform: Fisher has arranged for undergraduates to have free, unrestricted access to all Vault has to offer, including:
- Downloadable Career Guides
- Employer profiles and Vault rankings
- Discussion boards
- Vault's job board, which matches employers and recruiters with top talent
- If you have not registered with Vault, click on "Create My Account" and use your OSU email address to get started.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook contains US Bureau of Labor Statistics information, organized by specific jobs.
O*NET OnLine
Browse O*NET Online for different occupations updated frequently by U.S. Department of Labor and learn about the work context, skills and values for all occupations.
Forage
The Forage has free job simulations to become familiar with career paths like consulting, investment banking, and marketing at companies like J.P. Morgan, Accenture, Lululemon and more.
Fisher Undergraduate Job Shadow Program
For Fisher Undergraduate Students
The Fisher Undergraduate Job Shadow Program is an opportunity for undergraduate business students to spend time with industry professionals at an employer’s site, see how Fisher specializations apply in a professional environment, and discover possible career paths. This program takes place at a variety of different company locations in the state of Ohio during The Ohio State University breaks. Contact Noella Mascarenhas at Mascarenhas.27@osu.edu with questions.
Undergraduate Job Shadow Program Details
Dates and Deadlines:
| Academic Break | Dates | Application Deadlines |
|---|---|---|
| Fall Break Job Shadow | October 15th and October 16th, 2026 | Applications open during August - September |
| Spring Break Job Shadow | March 15th - March 19th, 2027 | Applications open January - February 2027 |
BUSADM 2600: Career Exploration Course
This is a great opportunity for students to learn about business specializations from Alumni who are currently working. We bring in speakers from each specialization to discuss what they are doing, why they selected their major, why their personality and skill set fit with their major/career, etc. This 1-credit hour course is taught online during Fall and in-person during Spring semester each year. Questions? Contact Noella Mascarenhas at mascarenhas.27@osu.edu.
What Can I Do with each Specialization?
Specialization Career Information
Research career options for your Specialization using the following PowerPoint presentations. Each presentation covers career areas, sample job titles, career paths, companies that hire from the Specialization, salary information, professional organizations, and more!
FOCUS2 Career Assessment
This collection of assessments aims to guide students’ career interests based on their personality, skills, values, work interests and leisure interests. Students can explore their results tied to majors/minors offered at Ohio State University and to occupations listed on the Occupational Outlook Handbook links. Please contact Noella Mascarenhas via email at mascarenhas.27@osu.edu to learn more about taking this assessment and schedule a follow up appointment after the assessment. It is recommended to set up a career exploration appointment via Handshake to discuss the results and support you with your career exploration needs.
Job Boards by Career Field
Adapted from The Ohio State University, Arts & Sciences, Center for Career Success.