Career Counseling

Advising, Career, Exploratory Studies Center

ACES Career Counseling services are here to guide you and provide valuable resources throughout every step of your professional journey. Whether you're exploring career options related to your major, searching for a job or refining your professional skills, our dedicated career counselors are here to help you succeed. Don’t wait—explore our resources today and start working toward the future you've always dreamed of!

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Identify Life & Career Direction

Understand Yourself and Others

Overcome Barriers

Implement Life & Career Goals

Finding Your Life Work

A UW student participates in a job fair at the University of Wyoming as part of career counseling.

Focus 2 Career

This tool provides personality assessments, values and interests questionnaires to help identify career options and focus areas that align with your strengths and passions.

A UW student participates in a job fair at the University of Wyoming as part of ACES job counseling services.

What Can I Do With This Major?

What Can I Do With This Major? is a job search resource that explores the career options available based on different academic majors.

A UW student shakes hands with a potential employer at a UW career fair as part of ACES career counseling.

Career Competencies

Through the SOAR program, UW offers resources to help you develop the skills and attributes that employers in your field highly value and seek in candidates.

CandidCareer+

Find videos from current industry professionals, explore job trends, participate in virtual experiences, and more in the new CandidCareer+!

O*Net Online

Detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, employers, HR professionals, students and researchers.

BLS occupational outlook handbook

Find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.

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Where Majors End Up

A Sankey Diagram of what students do after graduation by major.

Career OneStop

This Department of Labor website assists students in finding career, training, and job search resources just for you.

Career Exploration Tools

At the ACES Center, a core part of our mission is to help UW students discover and pursue their passions, ultimately leading to a fulfilling career. We understand that many students may not have a clear picture of their future career when they first begin their academic journey and that’s perfectly normal! Our expert career counselors are here to guide you through this process, offering personalized advice and valuable resources to help you find the path that’s right for you.

When you schedule an appointment, we will help you walk through the 5 steps of the career counseling process:

1. Identify Your Life & Career Direction

2. Develop Self & Social Understanding

3. Overcome Your Barriers

4. Implement Your Life & Career Goals

5. Finding Your Life Work