Center for Career Exploration
Center for Career Exploration
Brown’s model of career exploration gives students the skills they need to successfully prepare for and navigate a lifetime of evolving career opportunities and pathways. We help translate those skills into personal and professional success.
Center for Career Exploration
Brown’s model of career exploration gives students the skills they need to successfully prepare for and navigate a lifetime of evolving career opportunities and pathways. We help translate those skills into personal and professional success.
Charting Pathways to Meaningful Careers
Building confidence to explore a wide variety of career options is a key element of the distinct educational experience for students at Brown.
From exploring new classes and declaring a concentration, to participating in extracurricular activities and campus employment or internships, Brown students learn how to apply their experiences to their career journeys. And thanks to an expansive mentoring and professional community of alumni and families, students develop a robust network in which to seek guidance and identify experiences that can lead to fulfilling jobs.
A reimagined, student-centered approach
Formerly known as the Center for Careers and Life After Brown (CareerLAB), in summer 2023 the center relaunched as the Brown Center for Career Exploration, with a renewed commitment to supporting students at all stages of career development.
With new staff, industry-specific advising and expanded mentoring and professional networks, the Brown Center for Career Exploration encourages students — and alumni and friends — to view the process of a career as a lifelong journey centered on continual reflection, connection and exploration.
Just as students navigate their academic paths through the Open Curriculum, they are also the authors of their own career journeys, partnering with a vast network of partners across the University to realize their goals and reach for new ones along the way.
How Brown Prepares Students for Success
Learn firsthand how the Brown Center for Career Exploration gives students the skills they need to navigate a lifetime of changing career opportunities and pathways.
How We Can Help
Connections That Count
Our advising team is here to listen and offer guidance based on the experiences we have seen working with other Brown students, employers, and alumni. On average, more than 2,300 undergraduates make an appointment with us each year.
Planning & Connections
Professional Pathways
Brown students use the Open Curriculum to explore more than 80 concentrations that lead to hundreds of career fields. The pathways into those fields aren't always clear. Our Pathways team can help you learn more about how to explore and get started in some of these fields.
Pathways & Outcomes
Open Opportunities
Try out different roles to see what is the right fit for you. And then, try another one. Our career counselors can help you narrow down the wide number of choices.
Jobs & Internships
476
workshops, employer and alumni events held in 2021
81%
first years and sophomores used our services and resources
$5M
total funds awarded last year to students through SPRINT, our experiential learning program
Let’s Talk
The sooner you connect with our team, the sooner we can assist you with all of your opportunities. Get to know our office through meeting with a peer advisor or attending one of our events.