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Educational Psychology 110: Planning Your Major and Career

Activities and resources to support Charting Your Path to Success: Researching Your Major and Career Goals

Step 3: Identify your career and search terms

1. Write down careers that you are interested in from your O*NET Search (Step #2)

  • Examples: pediatric nurse, security analyst, digital media manager

Careers you are interested in: 

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2. Craft a keyword search strategy to use in Google and library databases. You will use this in Step 4 and Step 5.

  • Combine your career with the word ‘career’ or ‘career path’ or ‘career possibilities’ to create a search string 
  • Examples: pediatric nursing career, security analyst career path, digital media manager career possibilities 

Write your keyword search strategy: 

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(your career)                                                (career term)
 

See additional terms you could use in your search below. The ones listed are suggestions to help you get started. 

These are various terms that you could use in your search strategy. A simple word change can drastically change the search results that you see. 

career path career exploration career possibilities career education path
career pathway career options career choice job satisfaction
burnout work life balance career guide job guidance