Learn more about HIVE's Career Runways
Use HIVE’s Career Runways to discover and connect to all possible industries, companies and positions, and then to understand expectations and specifics related to those you decide to pursue.
Article Sections
- Career Runway #1 – Personal Interests, Skills, and Motivators
- Assessments
- Career Runway #2 – Academics
- Career Runway #3 – Industries, Companies & Jobs
- Industry Verticals
- Job Functions
- Career Runway #4 – Corporate Culture & Values
- Networking
Career Runway #1 – Personal Interests, Skills, and Motivators
Assessments
Use assessments like these, along with others that you can find online and through your university career centers (which often have paid subscriptions for students for free), to connect your personality traits, personal interests, skills, and motivators to interesting career paths. If your university offers career classes and programs, these will often be included in those efforts as well.
🐝 HIVE Helper: Personality and Skill-Based Assessments
- Big Five Personality Test: truity.com
- Holland Code: openpsychometrics.org
- Myers Briggs Personality: 16personalities.com
- Skills Search: onetonline.org
Career Runway #2 – Academics
Academic interests are not always a required connecting point to careers, but they can be a great resource when looking at everything collectively. Take some time to understand what careers your current academic interests can lead to, and what your current career interests might require from you academically.
🐝 HIVE Helper: College Majors and Career Options
Career Runway #3 – Industries, Companies & Jobs
A combined understanding of individual industries, industry verticals, and the difference between industries and job functions is extremely effective when discovering career directions.
Industry Verticals
Industry Verticals contain groups of related singular industries that have enough in common for you to consider collectively before getting too specific too quickly. Industry verticals like Finance will sometimes require a deeper understanding of an Individual Industry like Investment Banking, but other Industry verticals, like Marketing & Communications, are made up of several individual industries like Advertising, Communications, Marketing & Public Relations and can be researched and approached collectively.
Job Functions
Job Functions are roles and positions that exist across several different industries and companies. For example, Managing Consulting is an industry. Consulting is a job function that can live in many other industries, maybe even some are more interesting to you personally, like technology, entertainment, sports, and finance.
🐝 HIVE Helper: Industry Verticals and Job Functions
Career Runway #4 – Corporate Culture & Values
Check out resources like those included below to familiarize yourself with different companies’ missions and values. Find initiatives that inspire you. Search for what’s important to you from a corporate culture and value-driven perspective, and use these resources to ensure that your future office, if you want it to be, is also a comfortable home.
Networking
Network with professionals who work at companies/who hold positions that inspire you. Attend company-focused information sessions and programs where you can hear employees speak about their experiences in real time. Review how companies describe themselves online and what keywords they use that connect with you via their About Us sections on sites like LinkedIn.com and Vault.com.
🐝 HIVE Helper: Company & Culture Identifiers