Education & Helping Professions

This Career Community is focused on the many different areas students can pursue in education and the helping professions. Browse blogs for career advice, look at resources for job and internship leads and watch videos profiling unique roles and occupations.

  • + CONSIDER CAREER PATHS
    View a sample of professional titles related to this major

    Visit My Next Move to browse for helping-related occupations by keyword or industry.

    • Actors, musicians and singers
    • Clinical, counseling and school psychologists
    • Clergy
    • Coaches and scouts
    • Customer service representatives
    • Education professors
    • Education administrator
    • Elementary school teachers
    • Family & marriage therapists
    • Human resources managers
    • Interpreters and translators
    • Museum technicians and curators
    • Preschool teachers
    • Psychologists
    • Psychiatric technicians
    • Post-secondary teachers
    • Recreational workers
    • Rehabilitation counselors
    • Secondary school teacher
    • Social and community service managers
    • Social workers
    • Special education teachers

    Need help exploring your career options? Take the Focus 2 assessment to search for occupations that fit with your interests, values, skills, and personality. Then speak with a Career Specialist about the results.

  • + EXPLORE MU MAJORS
    Check out helping-related MU majors, minors and certificates

    Please visit Majors@Mizzou and browse this site by career interests, occupation and by School or College. Remember, these are just a few examples of degree programs. A wide variety of MU majors can lead to a successful and satisfying career in education and helping.

    • Architectural Studies
    • Ancient Mediterranean Studies
    • Anthropology
    • Early Childhood Education
    • Educational Studies
    • Elementary Education
    • General Studies
    • History
    • Human Development and Family Science
    • Interdisciplinary
    • International Studies
    • Linguistic
    • Middle School Education
    • Philosophy
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Religious Studies
    • Roman Language/German/Russian
    • Secondary Education
    • Social Work
    • Sociology
    • Special Education

    Another helpful tool is the What Can I Do With This Major site where you can connect academic majors to common career paths and see typical employers that hire those majors.

  • + MAKE CAREER CONNECTIONS
    Learn how to have career conversations to find possible career paths 
    • Arrange an informational interview, learning about the real-life experience of someone working in a field or company that interests you.
    • Seek out mentors by making meaningful connections with upperclassmen, faculty, staff and alumni. 
  • + RESEARCH ALUMNI CAREER PATHS
    Discover the unique career paths of fellow Tigers
    • Use LinkedIn to see what thousands of Mizzou alumni are doing with their degrees.
    • Explore the Career Outcomes web page to see what recent MU graduates are doing and where they are living.

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Paying it forward

Jessica Marmolejos values education — and so does her family. 

“I come from a big family,” she said. “Everyone has either graduated from college or is going to graduate college,” she said. 

With family roots in the Dominican Republic, education proved …

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Who’s Hiring? The Most In-Demand Jobs on Idealist Right Now

If you’re currently job searching, we’ve rounded up 20 current opportunities to apply for the most in-demand job titles on idealist.org.

With diverse missions, as well as opportunities to work onsite, in a hybrid capacity, or remotely, these job listings …

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Pursuing her passion for education

Madison Hayes, an Honors student in the University of Missouri College of Education and Human Development, is always looking for opportunities to get real-world teaching experience.

Last semester, the Honors Learning-by-Contract program allowed her to do just that.

Through the …

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Discovery led to growth

After transferring to the University of Missouri in 2016, John Himmelberg was hesitant to fully engulf himself in college life. It wasn’t until he found a group of students who were passionate about chemistry that he felt inspired to get …

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Resources

Our federal government offers jobs in a kaleidoscope of disciplines, from aerospace to the creative arts and engineering to education. …

Current job and employment trends based on a NACE (national Association of Colleges and Employers) survey of recruiters who hire …

Focus 2 Am I Career Ready?

Career readiness is a foundation of eight core competencies that broadly prepare college students for lifelong success in their careers …

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