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🎯 Explore Your Career Path with Forage Career Explorer Discover your strengths. Try out real-world roles. Get one step closer to your future.

What is Forage?

Forage Career Explorer is a free, self-paced virtual job simulation platform designed in partnership with leading companies like Lululemon, Goldman Sachs,  PepsiCo,  JPMorgan Chase, and Deloitte. Through interactive, bite-sized modules, you can gain experience, build confidence, and learn about career paths—before applying for a single job.

📈 Students who complete a Forage simulation are over 3x more likely to land a job.

📘 Download 'What is Forage?' document

                                                                                          

Why Should You Try It?

Explore Careers: Experience what real jobs are like across different industries.
Build Skills: Practice communication, collaboration, data analysis, and more.
Boost Your Resume: Earn certificates and demonstrate initiative to employers.
Find Your Fit: Reflect on what work feels most natural to you—and where you thrive.

💡 More than 5.5 million students worldwide have already signed up

 

How It Works

The Forage Career Explorer Simulation takes just 30–60 minutes and includes four parts:

  1. 🎬 Intro Video: Sets the stage for your experience.

  2. 🧩 Interactive Scenarios: Simulate work in communication, support, creativity, and data.

  3. 🧠 Reflection: Identify which roles feel most natural and why.

  4. 📚 Recommendations: Get suggested careers based on your responses


Ready to Start?

👉 Click here to access Career Explorer


For Faculty & Staff

Whether you're an instructor, advisor, or peer leader, you can embed Forage into:

  • First-Year Seminars

  • Intro to Major Courses

  • Student Organization Events

  • Orientation or Residence Life Programming

🧩 Download the Workstyle Action Plan Worksheet
📘 View Sample Syllabus Integration
🧑‍🏫 Learn How to Create an Educator Account