Students

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Explore Your Options

The exploration process will help you gain new insights about yourself and lead you to major and career opportunities you may have never considered otherwise. You will learn how to test your top options and make an informed major and career decision that fits for you.

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Gain Experience

Learn how to build important skills and gain experience in your field to strengthen your qualifications while gaining insight, mentors, and connections.

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Tell Your Story

Resumes, cover letters, personal statements, online profiles, interviews, and networking are all opportunities to tell your story. Being able to describe your skills, strengths, and experiences in a meaningful way to employers requires time, attention, and strategy.

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Make It Happen

Opportunities are uncovered through the relationships you build. Relationships can also strengthen your position for an opportunity. Gain the skills, strategies, and habits to initiate and grow these relationships While a formal application is often necessary, those are not enough. Become a designer and developer of the opportunities that come to you.

Career Coaching

You are not on your own in developing your career. Connect with a Career Coach to move forward and thrive in the process.

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Tell Us About Your Career Success!

Congrats! You are amazing and we want to celebrate your career success! If you’ve made strides in your career development, let us know! The information you provide may be used in a future Career Services’ social and/or publication highlight.

From Student to Peer Career Coach and Career Development Pro

“I wanted to be a Peer Career Coach because it was a great group of people that I was able to work with as a student,” said Adam Whitacre.

Whitacre, a UNL senior majoring in Ag-Economics with a minor in …

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Being Curious: Landon Healy’s Approach to a Successful Internship

“When it comes to looking for internships, I believe being memorable and respectable is all you need,” said Landon Healy.

Healy is a first-year Master of Architecture graduate student with a minor in business.

During his undergraduate years at UNL, …

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Career Resources

Ways To Gain Experience

Find out more about different ways you can start gaining experience.

The Office of Graduate Studies is committed to offering on-demand career and professional development resources. This Canvas site consists of …

This guide is a valuable tool for finding job and internship opportunities, writing your resume and cover letters, marketing yourself …

A Guide to Interviewing

This is a valuable tool for learning how to best prepare for your upcoming interviews.

Career Service Hours

Monday 8am-5pm
Tuesday 8am-5pm
Wednesday 8am-5pm
Thursday 8am-5pm
Friday 8am-5pm