Info for Students & Alumni

Planning Your Future

Your personal path to success starts with a plan. Our team can help you start mapping your future from the moment you arrive at Morehead State.

Four-Year Career Plan

Our four-year plan can take you from college to career:

• Freshman year: Explore interests, strengths, and majors will focusing on academic success and campus involvement.
• Sophomore year: Connect with career counselors, working professionals, employers, and others to confirm you’re on the right track.
• Junior year: Build experience with internships, volunteering, and other activities while networking and learning more about potential jobs.
• Senior year: Get hired with resume coaching, practice interviews, job-search planning, and other support from our team.

Download a four-year plan checklist with specific steps to take each year.

Career Competencies

 Are you career-ready? Employers say these eight skills will get you hired:

• Critical thinking: Assessing information, developing solutions, and testing ideas.
• Leadership: Managing projects and coaching others to reach common goals.
• Communication: Clearly expressing ideas through speaking and writing.
• Professionalism: Modeling integrity, ethics, and accountability.
• Teamwork: Building consensus and working collaboratively.
• Career management: Setting goals for growth and advocating for opportunities.
• Technology: Adapting to new solutions and demonstrating proficiency with common tools.
• Global fluency: Valuing difference and interacting with diverse people.

Download more info about career competencies. MSU’s Level UP initiative can help you develop these skills in specialized courses.

Suit Bank

Career Services offers free professional clothing for MSU students & alumni. Stop by, try the clothes you like, then take them with you. Anything you take is yours to keep!