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Career Development Offered

Not only does the college have its own career team, but its academic advisors are also trained to help students navigate their professional goals as well as their academic goals.

Ensuring Your Future

This program guarantees that any CASNR graduate who completes the Ensuring Your Future criteria and actively seeks employment will receive at least one job offer relevant to his or her academic program within the first six months after graduation. If they do not receive at least one employment offer, the College will pay for any course that is documented by an employer who interviewed you and found your degree program lacking critical elements.

Ways to Connect

• Career Fairs & Events
• Ensuring Your Future Program
• Resume Labs – contact CASNR Career Team
• Employers in Residence

For more information, connect with our team in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Career Development Offered

Each Spring the College of Architecture hosts their own career and internship fair specific to the college. A series of coordinated preparation activities including resume and portfolio development, interviewing skills, and negotiation strategies are held prior to the Career Fair.

d.ONE

All first year students also participate in the d.ONE program, a common education model for all first-year architecture students. dThink and dMake are sequential hands-on courses where students learn to work in teams to address problems and promote innovation. At the same time, they learn foundational skills in composition, craft, presentation, and idea generation necessary for all design fields. At the end of the program, students have gained an understanding of the broad range of design required for their programs and are eligible to apply for their program of choice.

Ways to Connect

• Architecture Career Fair
• d.ONE Program
• Internship Coordinators:
  • Architecture: Brian Kelly, AIA, Associate Professor
  • Interior Design: Mark Hinchman, Professor 
  • Landscape Architecture: Mark Hoistad, Director 
  • Community and Regional Planning: Zhenghong Tang, Director

Career Development Offered

One of the central beliefs instilled in these students is that strong careers evolve over time and the range of existing career fields changes almost daily. Since it is impossible to predict your path, they encourage students to let their curiosity move them toward the right opportunity for them. These students leave the University with a wide variety of experiences and academic accomplishments to promote a well-rounded experience. 

Career Course

On top of a career coaching team along with a team of academic advisors, students are able to enroll in CASC200: Career Development for Arts and Sciences. This course allows students to take ownership of their professional development and immerse themselves in all the ways to prepare for any step of the job search process.  

Ways to Connect

• Career Fairs & Events
• Student Newsletter Job Referral Form

For more information, connect with our team in the College of Arts and Sciences

Career Development Offered

The Professional Enhancement Program (PrEP) allows for students to obtain different touchpoints of career development through their four years in the college.  

1. Investing in Strengths: Students discover, develop and apply their Clifton Strengths to maximize success in college and beyond.
   • Employers interact with these students primarily through career fairs. Designate yourself as First-Year Friendly to ensure students in this course connect with you. 
2. Career Development & Planning: Students learn the major and career decision-making process, identify career goals, develop a résumé, and practice networking.
   • Employers provide informational interviews and participate in class networking events. 
3. Internship & Job Search Strategies: Students learn how to search for, apply to, interview for, and secure internships and full-time jobs.
   • Employers provide practice interviews, résumé reviews, short video tips and interact with students at career fairs. 
4. Professional & Life Skills: Students learn to transition from college to career through presentations and informational interviews with alumni and industry experts. Topics focus on financial literacy, personal well-being, lifelong career management, and community engagement.
   • Alumni and employers provide micro-lectures and informational interviews about the transition to life after college and may submit presentation topics for consideration.   

Ways to Connect

• Employer in Residence
• Connect with Recognized Student Organizations (RSO’s)
• Employer Partners Day – This professional development opportunity teaches employers how to enhance their campus presence. The event includes breakout sessions, speakers and networking 
• Participate in PrEP connection opportunities
• Career Fairs and Events

For more information, connect with our College of Business team as well as check out their full Employer Guide here.

Career Development Offered

Out-of-classroom learning is a large part of the College of Education and Human Sciences experience. With each student being required to have an internship/practicum experience before they graduate, students are exposed to a wide variety of development opportunities throughout their time.

5 Step Guide to Launching Your Career

Students in the College of Education and Human Sciences are taught the 5 Step Guide to Launching your Career. This guide focuses on having students explore/envision what they’re looking for, engage on handshake and other job searching platforms, find experiences through informational interviews and attending career fairs, enhance their ways of connecting with employers, and establish a network.

Ways to Connect

• 5 Step Guide to Launching Your Career
• Employer Spotlight Series
• Career Fairs and Events

For more information, connect with our team in the College of Education and Human Sciences

Career Development Offered

In an engineering student’s first two years, they will participate in two seminar courses focused on career and professional development. On top of this, the overall curriculum encourages students to develop skills that will enhance the technical knowledge their degree offers. This program is called The Complete Engineer.

The Complete Engineer

As mentioned above, this program is the foundation of the College of Engineering education. It focuses on enhancing solid technical knowledge and foundation by adding six essential, non-technical core competencies. These competencies include inclusive excellence, communication, teamwork, self-management & leadership, civic responsibility, and professionalism and ethics. More information on how these are incorporated into a student’s education can be found here.

Ways to Connect

• Employer Tabling
• Get Connected to Recognized Student Organizations (RSO’s)
• Engineering Career Connection – newsletter to students
• Career Fairs and Events
  • Durham Career Fair – hosted annually in Omaha in the fall.

For more information, connect with our team in the College of Engineering

Career Development Offered

In the College of Fine and Performing Arts, students are challenged to create their own future through their creative pursuits with the backing of experienced faculty and the global connections they bring.

Emerging Media Arts (EMA)

EMA teaches students to tell stories and create worlds across disciplines old, new and those still being discovered. Through filmmaking, interactive media, virtual reality, experience design, sonic arts, wearable technologies, AI and more, our students grow into creative leaders for an evolving world, graduating with the skills they need to tell the stories that matter to them.

This highly-competitive program accepts a select amount of students each year into its program. Through their four years, they are delving into and innovating the unknown through the newest technology and award-winning faculty. To read more about the program, go here.

Ways to Connect

• Sign up for the college newsletter
• Connect with Faculty and Staff
• Connect with Recognized Student Organizations (RSO’s)
  • Art, Art History and Design
  • Theatre

University Career Services oversees career coaching for this college. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our team.

Career Development Offered

With a “Do From Day One” motto, the College of Journalism and Mass Communications focuses on getting students hands-on experience in a variety of fields from their first day on campus. Through a variety of organizations, professional affiliations and more, students are exposed to their fields early on.

The Experience Lab

The Experience Lab gives students a chance to gain hands-on experience from the first semester they enroll in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications while also earning course credit. Working with faculty liaisons and professional mentors, students will build their academic skill set while exploring their professional interests in one of the college’s media outlets:

• Buoy: an advertising agency where students will provide services for non-profit organizations and local community partners.
• Nebraska News Service: a state news wire service that provides stories written by UNL student journalists to more than 100 community news organizations.
• Nebraska Nightly: a student produced live news show for local audiences
• KRNU 90.3: student-led radio station that focuses on entertainment and highlights important events happening in the local community.
• Heartland Webzine: an online magazine that focuses on telling the stories of the people who live and work in Nebraska.
• UNLimited Sports: an online student-led sports program covering local events.

For more information, go here.

Ways to Connect

• Conduct Interviews in the college.
• Connect with Recognized Student Organizations (RSO’s)
• Career Fairs and Events

For more information, connect with our team in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.