Katharine Brooks, Ed.D.,

is director of Liberal Arts Career

Services at The University of Texas

at Austin. A nationally recognized

career coach, trainer, professor, and

counselor for more than twenty

years, she is also the creator of the

National Association of Colleges

and Employers Career Coaching

Intensives, highly successful, sold-out

training sessions for career counselors.

She has a doctorate in educational

psychology.

978-0-670-

Sooner or later all college students face The Question: What

are you going to do with your major? Inevitably, this unleashes

waves of anxiety in liberal arts and humanities majors who aren’t

sure what their degrees have prepared them for, and even in

preprofessional majors whose career fields are oversaturated (or

unappealing). But The Question is fundamentally flawed.

In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks, director of

one of the top-rated campus career centers in the nation, dispels

the myths about majors and uses positive psychology and mapping

techniques to replace the obsolete linear thinking about the

job market that paralyzes so many young people as they venture

into the working world. In her trademarked Wise Wanderings

System, Brooks shows readers how to mine their academic and life

experiences for new insights while introducing anxiety-reducing

methods for moving forward with their career paths—even when

they don’t know what they want to do with their major.

With an emphasis on making the most of their education,

personality, and experimental wanderings, You Majored in What?

provides college students and recent graduates creative, practical,

and effective strategies for reaching the best employers and finding

the most interesting opportunities after graduation, regardless

of their major or the status of the job market. As revolutionary as

What Color Is Your Parachute?, You Majored in What? offers a practical

and proven approach to reframing experiences, discovering a

network of overlooked opportunities, and finding a true calling.