Interested in exploring your unique work interests, personality, values, and leisure interests and how they relate to your possible future career plans? FOCUS 2 is a self-guided assessment available free to UTD students. Use the link above to log in or create an account. Be sure to use your UTD email address and the access code, utdcomets.

The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment provides robust insight into your interests, so you can consider potential careers, your educational path and the world of work. Built on psychologist John Holland’s theory, it’s backed by more than 80 years of research into how people of similar interests are employed, and what motivates individuals in the workplace. It delivers effective and powerful results that contribute to your success. Schedule with a career consultant to get set up for the Strong Interest Inventory Assessment today.

Through a series of questions, the MBTI assessment helps you identify your natural preferences in four areas of personality, which sort you into one of 16 distinct MBTI personality types. Understanding these types gives you objective insight that you can use to enhance your professional and personal relationships, as well as your direction, focus, and choices. Schedule with a career consultant to get set up for the MBTI Assessment today.  

Discover the challenges that you want to work on. SparkPath was founded to help students create extraordinary careers by exploring the real-world challenges that inspire them. By changing mindsets through innovative programs, coaching, and career tools, SparkPath helps the next generation discover their values, interests, and talents and visualize how they can make a real and unique contribution to the world.

Go to app.mysparkpath.com and click “Sign Up” to create a student account with your UTD email and insert the unique code (utdallas2024).

Designed for international students, Interstride unlocks an almost limitless and robust support for the career journey of international students. Log in using your UT Dallas email address and SSO.

A great resource for first-generation college students! CareerSpring provides resources such as personalized career advice from numerous industry representatives, networking reach, and tools to help map out your career.

Use access code: UTD

Free online database that contains hundreds of occupational definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses, and workforce development professionals to understand today’s world of work in the United States.

The OOH provides information on what workers do; the work environment; education, training, and other qualifications; pay; the job outlook; information on state and area data; similar occupations; and sources of additional information, for 324 occupational profiles, covering about 4 out of 5 jobs in the economy.

Discover some potential career paths associated with several popular majors using the What Can I do With My Major resource. Don’t see your major listed in the resource or need more in-depth guidance? Set up an appointment with a Career Consultant to learn more about major exploration and careers for any major.

Develop skills for your career with Micro-Internships through Parker Dewey. Micro-Internships offer an incredible opportunity for students across all majors to delve into professional assignments, showcasing and enhancing your skills in real-world scenarios. These short-term, paid projects, similar to tasks assigned to new hires or interns, are a great way to build a strong skill set and expand your professional network. *International students at UT Dallas are not eligible to participate in micro-internships due to visa restrictions. *Academic credit is not available.

Learn direct from leading companies and gain valuable career skills by completing virtual work experiences on Forage.

SeekUT presents straightforward and understandable data that tells you what real UT graduates are earning – based on campus and major – one, five, and ten years after graduation. It also tells you what Industries are employing UT graduates in Texas along with predicted job openings.

Use Payscale to ensure pay accuracy. This salary calculator uses salary market data to generate a personalized dashboard in response to a questionnaire. This tool can help you negotiate salary as well as show you areas to consider improving to secure higher pay.  

Salary.com is a compensation suite. Real-time analytics provide a reliable record of employee pay levels, best practices, trends and policies related to compensation processes. You can leverage this tool to discover what factors contribute to your earning potential, and to see national median salaries for different occupations.

Explore median salaries for a desired occupation using OOH. Compare median salaries for a role across different industries. This tool can help you assess a salary in a job offer as well as help you decide which industry to target for the role of your choice.