At some point in your career you may come to a juncture where a need exists to reevaluate and reflect upon the current status of your career choice, career path or other external factors.

An effective Job Search can be exhausting and time consuming. Choosing a job that will assist you in launching your career and meeting your career goals should be your target.

At this stage in the GOALS Program, you have decided that you are going to graduate school and have narrowed down your list of schools that you are interested in! Now you are ready to launch your graduate school career!

Completing the previous stages should have enabled you to gain reassurance and confidence in your choice of career path, whether pursuing directly pursuing an occupation or attending graduate school.

Active Decision-Making equals making informed career decisions.

The focus of this stage is on stepping into potential career paths by:

Once you have conquered the question, who am I, then you’re ready to advance to the Options to Explore stage. This stage primarily encompasses researching information as it pertains to academic majors, career clusters, occupations, labor market data and company profiles to name a few categories.

Welcome to the GOALS Program, developed by the UIS Career Development Center.

Navigate now through the modules of the 5 Career Planning Stages of GOALS to:

Resources for students related to diversity

As part of the GOALS Program, diversity can be a key component of career development. Therefore, each of the GOALS stages provides useful links providing relevant information to a variety of special populations. If you have favorite links to include in the special populations area, please forward the to us via e-mail at careerservices@uis.edu

Self-Awareness is the initial step in the career decision-making process. If you are not informed about who you are, then how can you expect to make informed decisions based upon your characteristics and attributes?

Complete the Gain Self-Awareness Stage to find out about your: