California Career Guides
The State of California offers career paths across a wide range of fields including artificial intelligence, engineering, public health, education, communications and more. There are numerous opportunities to apply your skills in public service.
These career guides are designed to help you explore those paths. Each guide highlights the type of work you might do, common roles and job titles and where these careers exist across the state.
As you explore the options, keep an open mind. Many roles and mission areas exist across multiple agencies and your skills may apply in more places than you might expect.
Browse guides across fields including data science, legal, business and finance, natural resources, transportation and creative fields like graphic design to discover where you might fit.
California Career Guides
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business and Finance
- Communications
- Creative Arts
- Data Science and Statistics
- Education, Learning and Development
- Engineering
- Information Technology and Computer Science
- Legal
- Mathematics
- Medical
- Natural Resources, Environment and Biological Sciences
- Physical Sciences
- Public Administration and Program Management
- Public Health
- Security and Protection
- Social Sciences
- Transportation
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