An independent career field guide
Find work
you want to do.
Explore tech roles and learn how to explain the experience you already have.
Use your coursework, projects, internships or volunteering to understand which tasks interest you and what you could show an employer.
Find your starting pointExplore technical and nontechnical roles, whatever you studied.
Understand a job’s requirements.
See how your experience relates.
Choose a role, read its requirements and find examples from your own work. Use the worksheet to decide what to learn or try next.
01 / The field guide
What do you need help with?
Choose the guide that matches
your question today.
Start with the work, then choose a technology role.
Compare building software, improving processes and researching customers.
Turn projects into evidence.
Explain your contribution, your method and the limits.
Understand what the job asks you to do.
Identify the tasks and find examples of related work you have done.
02 / Explore different tasks
What kind of work
makes you curious?
Start with a task you would
like to try.
Make something
work.
Software, user needs, debugging and documentation.
Explore the work Investigate + improveUnderstand
a system.
Workflows, business needs, evaluation and testing.
Explore the work Research + communicateMake sense
of responses.
Customer questions, market research and recommendations.
Explore the workTitles, qualifications and experience levels vary by employer. Inspect actual current postings, including location and work authorization.
03 / Use the worksheet
Choose a job.
Find examples of related work.
Write down the job’s requirements and the work you have done that relates to each one. The Role Evidence Map helps you see what you can explain and where you need more experience.
Open your blank worksheetYour answers stay in this browser. Download or print a copy without signing up.