Career Resources

This comprehensive Job Search Guide is a valuable tool for finding job and internship opportunities, writing your resume and cover letters, creating a Handshake and LinkedIn profile, preparing for interviews, negotiating job offers, and more!

Attend a Résumé Lab to create or update your résumé, cover letter, or Handshake account with help from our Peer Career Coaches! Bring your computer, ask questions, get feedback, make edits as you go, and walk out with an improved document.  No appointment is needed.  You may come and go during lab hours.

Times & Locations

• Tuesdays, 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. 

  Hardin Hall Student Services Lounge (1st floor)

• Wednesdays

  12:00 – 2:00 p.m., Animal Science – The Hub (2nd floor)

  4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Nebraska East Union, Room 331

• Thursdays 

  11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Keim Hall Student Lounge (2nd floor)

Not able to attend a Résumé Lab?  That's ok!  You can schedule an appointment with a Peer Career Coach via the Student Success Hub.  Also, be sure to check out this video on how to create a standout résumé!

Handshake is UNL's on-line connection between students/alumni and employers hiring for part-time, internship and full-time positions. Handshake is a free service for current UNL students and alumni. It's easy to create your account then post your resume, search employers and listings, request on-campus interviews and stay updated on career opportunities and events.  Check out this video tutorial to learn how to search for jobs, events and employers!

Check out these videos to gain advice on popular career coaching topics!

What Can I Do With This Major?

Preparing for Your Career While Still in College

Handshake

LinkedIn

Résumés

Career Fair Prep

Professionalism

Graduate School

The AgCareers Career Profiles are a resource promoting awareness and understanding of the diverse opportunities within agriculture and food. To browse the more than 300 Career Profiles, select a pathway of interest to you. Then, locate a job title you would like to read more about. Each Career Profile contains an overview, job responsibilities, required education, potential employers, job outlook, and professional organizations to join. Plus, there is a link to current career opportunities on AgCareers.com related to that career.

Job Shadowing is a career development experience that allows individuals to learn more about a career path, industry, or organization by spending time both observing and interviewing an experienced professional on the job.  Visit our job shadowing resource to learn more about how to set yourself up with a great job shadowing experience.

Informational interviews are an excellent way to make new connections and create a more strategic network in your fields of interest.  These interviews involve talking with people currently working in a career field in which you are interested to gain a better understanding of an occupation, organization, or industry.  Ask for information, ideas, suggestions, and referrals to others with relevant information.  However, it is not appropriate to ask for a job during an informational interview.

Whether it's job searching, networking or graduate school, it can be hard to keep track of all of the details.  That's where our Application Trackers can help!  Click on the links below to download a spreadsheet to help you keep track of every step of the process!

• Job and internship applications
• People you network or job shadow with
• Graduate/professional school applications

Use Big Interview to learn and practice your interview skills. You will get hands-on practice with mock interviews tailored to your specific industry, job and experience level.  -

Create an account using your @huskers.unl.edu email address.  Utilize 4024 when prompted for the access code.

CASNR provides digital badges to help you succeed in your career.

Job opportunities with the U.S. government are available in many career fields. The application and hiring process differs from a traditional job search.  Visit our federal and state job resources page for links to a multitude of specialized resources to assist you with your government job search.  

International students are restricted as to where and how much they are allowed to work.  Please refer to the International Student and Scholar Office (ISSO) for information on Curricular Practical Training (CPT), Optional Practical Training (OPT) and more.  Students in eligible STEM fields, may be eligible to apply for an OPT extension.  Students should work closely with ISSO before pursuing or accepting off-campus employment.