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.

November Celebrates Native American Heritage Month

An early supporter of celebrating Native American culture was Dr. Arthur Parker, a Seneca from New York.  Dr. Parker worked with the Boy Scouts of America to establish the first date celebrating Native American culture: “First Americansâ€.   This day was …

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Letty Garcia Career Advisor
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National First Gen Celebration Week Features UNL Alum Mekita Rivas

In 2017, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the Center for First-generation Student Success, an initiative of the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) and the Suder Foundation, launched the inaugural First-Generation College Celebration. Campuses across the …

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Letty Garcia Career Advisor
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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