Career Exploration and Getting Involved
Explore Potential Majors and Career Paths
Step 1: Reflect
- Complete your PathwayU Assessment
- Think about your interests, abilities and goals
- How do these each play into your decision? How do they complement or oppose each other?
Step 2: Research
- Visit the UWGB Academic Catalog to explore majors
- Conduct informational interviews to learn more about careers
- Review current jobs postings to gain an understanding of the skills, education and experience employers are seeking
Familiarize Yourself with Career Planning Resources
Utilize Career Planning Resources
- Handshake
- Big Interview & Big Resume
- PathwayU
- Future Leaders in Manufacturing
- Career Planning Professional Toolkit
Get to Know Your Career Advisor
- Schedule an appointment with your career advisor via Navigate!
Getting Involved
Make Campus Your "Home Away From Home"
Your college experience will be what you put into it!
- Find your new favorite spot
- Library
- Study spaces
- Recharge lounge
- Outside seating
Be Involved, Make Friends & Go To Events
Why Get Involved?
The "why" is up to you! Stay involved to...
- Build a sense of community and meet potential friends
- Learn a new perspective
- Gain experience for your resume and/or future interviews
Ways to Get Involved
Student Organizations
- Student Government
- Pride Center
- Dance club
- D&D club
- Phoenix Film Phlock
- Explore Phoenix Connect to see them all!
Looking for more?
Create your won clubs by finding at least three other students and a faculty member to be the mentor!
Attend Events
- GB Welcome
- Beginning of Year Picnic
- Karaoke nights
- Halloween Homecoming
- End of the Year Celebration
- Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month
- Estamos Aqui in Green Bay
Student Engagement Center
Campus Cupboard
- Providing perishable and nonperishable goods to all students when in need
Volunteerism & Service Projects
- Day of Service (October 9, 2026)
- CUEGB
Balancing Expectations & Commitments
What commitments do you have outside of classes?
- Household responsibilities
- Caring for siblings or family members
- Spending quality time with others
- Financially supporting family
- Part- or full-time jobs on- or off-campus
- Sharing spaces with others
- Studying and homework
- Time spent traveling
- “You” time
Create a Plan for Your First Semester
- After registering for classes today, ask what free time will you have?
- How will you use your time in between classes?
- What will meals look like?
- How will you be commuting to and from campus?
- What do you need in your car?
- What do you need in your bag?
Campus Resources
- Multicultural Resource Center (MRC)
- Pride Center
- Student Services
- The Wellness Center
- Student Accessibility Services (SAS)
- Career Planning & Professional Connections
- Student Success Programs
- Dean of Students
- The Learning Center
- Study Abroad
- Student Engagement Center
- College Pads
- Green Bay Metro & GBM On Demand
- Phoenix Cares
- GB Alert
What's Next?
GB Welcome
- Manitowoc: August 27
- Sheboygan: August 28
- More ways to connect with incoming students
- Leave your mark on campus
- Reconnect with the goals you set today
how can we help?
Have additional questions about this session topic or need to request an accessible format? Please reach out to our GB Orientation team via email.