Career Exploration for Prospective Students
Need help clarifying your career goals? Undecided about your college major or program of study? Ready to explore the next steps in your career plan?
Wake Tech's Career Services Office has tools and resources available to guide you in the career decision-making process. We can support you in the development of a plan of action.
Take part in an exploratory session to explore pathways to the career that fits your interests. Get your questions answered regarding educational requirements, how long it takes to get a certification or degree, salaries offered in the field and how Wake Tech can help you achieve your career goal.
Career Exploration Courses
Pathways to Engineering Careers
Course ID: HRD-3004VX2 | Overview
Engineering is an exciting career because it combines scientific and mathematical knowledge with creative thinking. It offers job security with the opportunity to choose from a range of positions, educational requirements, and salary potential to match your interests and needs. Explore several career fields within the engineering industry such as civil, electronic, chemical, mechanical, robotics, and surveying. In this pathway course, you will also learn about Wake Tech course offerings that can help you achieve engineering career goals.
No active courses available at this time.
To be notified when this course becomes available, please use
Wake Tech's Notify Me service.
Pathways to Education and Human Services Careers
Course ID: HRD-3004VY2 | Overview
Education and human services are both passion driven careers that are always in high demand. They are careers that impact the world around us. They offer job security with the opportunity to choose from a range of positions, educational requirements, and salary potential to match your interests and needs. Explore several career fields within the education and human services industry such as early childhood education, elementary, middle, high school or special education teachers, mental health professionals, addiction and recovery counselors, gerontology, and case workers. In this pathway course, you will also learn about Wake Tech course offerings that can help you achieve education and human services career goals.
No active courses available at this time.
To be notified when this course becomes available, please use
Wake Tech's Notify Me service.
Pathways to IT Careers
Course ID: HRD-3004VZ2 | Overview
Information Technology (IT) is a dynamic industry that can offer job security and the opportunity to choose from a range of positions, educational requirements, and salary potential – to match your interests and needs. In this pathway course, you’ll explore career options in the IT industry, such as computer systems analyst, computer programmer, web developer, network operations center analyst, cybersecurity specialist, technical support analyst, and more. You’ll also learn about Wake Tech courses that can help you reach your career goals in IT.
No active courses available at this time.
To be notified when this course becomes available, please use
Wake Tech's Notify Me service.
Pathways to Healthcare Careers
Course ID: HRD-3004WA2 | Overview
Healthcare is one of the fastest growing employment industries. It offers job security along with opportunities to choose from a range of positions, educational requirements, and salary potential – to match your interests and needs. In this pathway course, you’ll explore career options in healthcare, such as nursing, medical assisting, phlebotomy, radiography, medical billing and coding, medical lab technology, pharmacy technology, and more. You’ll also learn about Wake Tech courses that can help you reach your career goals in healthcare.
No active courses available at this time.
To be notified when this course becomes available, please use
Wake Tech's Notify Me service.
You can also meet with our staff to get started on your career journey.
The following links offer resources to assist in your career exploration:
Planning tools
- What Can I Do With This Major? - Connect academic majors to careers and employers.
- College Foundation of North Carolina - Tools for transitioning to college, transferring and exploring majors and careers.
- NCCareers.org - North Carolina’s central online resource for job and career information.
- Pathful Explore Virtual Job Shadow - Take a virtual field trip and go behind the scenes with real professionals to view 1,000+ career opportunities.
Occupational data
- Career One Stop - Occupations, salaries, outlook and career videos.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook - Salaries, education and training requirements, outlook and employment resources.
Career assessment
- Career Coach - Data on local jobs, requirements, wages and outlook – and corresponding Wake Tech programs.
- Focus 2 - Self-assessment, exploration, decision-making and action planning. (NOTE: After creating an account, use "careers" as the access code.)
- O*NET Interest Profiler - Identification of career interests and how they relate to the world of work.
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