For Students & Alumni
Preparing You for a Successful Career
Our goal is simple — to help you prepare for a successful career after graduation. Whether you have yet to decide on a major or are looking for an internship or job, our experienced and dedicated team will make sure you have access to ODU’s vast collection of resources and network of corporate partners to help you stand out in a competitive job market.
We Can Help You With:
- Resume and cover letter preparation
- Exclusive job & internship opportunities
- Career decision-making
- Networking opportunities
- Graduate school application
- Major exploration
Your Career Exploration Tools
Focus 2 Assessment
Self-assess your personal qualities and explore career fields and major areas of study that are most compatible with your personality and interests.
Challenge Cards
The SparkPath Challenge mindset is an approach to career exploration focused on finding challenges to tackle instead of job titles to fit into.
Helpful Info & Links
- Fall Career Fair
- Education Major Events
- Student Athlete Opportunity
- And More
Focus 2 Assessment
FOCUS 2 is a user-friendly, self-paced, online career and education planning tool
for college students. It will enable you to self-assess your personal qualities and
explore career fields and major areas of study that are most compatible with your
personality and interests.
Students who use FOCUS 2 make better decisions about their goals and plans and learn
how to self-manage their careers.
Once you’ve completed the FOCUS 2 assessment, we encourage you to schedule an appointment with the Career Development Center to review your results and explore next steps.
New to FOCUS 2?
If this is your first time using FOCUS 2 you must create an account.
The access code for FOCUS 2 is panthers
Challenge Cards
The Challenge mindset is an approach to career exploration focused on finding challenges
to tackle instead of job titles to fit into.
By completing the Challenge Cards you will learn:
- The world needs me.
- There are many fascinating challenges, problems and opportunities that I can work on.
- I don’t need to choose one job title that I will have for the rest of my life.
- I can take action to discover the challenges I care about, the companies who work on them, the people who work there and what I need to learn to be able to do that.
- When I ‘flip the model’ of career exploration, I can get better results.
How to access the Digital Challenge Cards:
- Navigate to the Spark Path website: https://app.mysparkpath.com/
- Click the Sign Up button in the top right-hand corner
- Enter your full name and your Ohio Dominican email address
- Use the access code: panthers
- Create a password to use for future logins
Click Here to Access Spark Path
Once you’ve completed the Challenge Cards, we encourage you to schedule an appointment with the Career Development Center to review your results and explore next steps.
