The Career Development Center team recognizes that families are facing unique challenges during these unprecedented times, and we are here to support your student. Don’t let uncertainty impede your student’s job or internship search, pause their professional growth, or prevent them from continuing to explore options and engage in career decision-making. The
Career Development Center continues to offer its full range of services in new, technology-focused ways, and we have added new programs and services to respond to these changing times. Below we are highlighting just a few of our most popular services.
Individual Appointments: Our team offers individual career coaching appointments to assist with major and career exploration, job and internship search, graduate school exploration and application, resume and cover letter development, interviewing, building a digital presence, networking, and much more. All appointments take place virtually via Zoom. Students can
schedule an appointment with their career coach online.
Recruiting Events: We continue to work with employer partners to offer virtual recruiting events and provide students with the opportunity to connect with employers hiring for jobs and internships. Recruiting events happen every week. A full calendar of upcoming virtual recruiting events can be found on the
events page of your student’s Handshake account.
Virtual Walk-In Hours: During virtual walk-ins, students can meet with a career coach via Zoom without an appointment. Walk-ins can be used by students for quick career questions or resume and cover letter reviews. Students can
access virtual walk-ins anytime Monday–Friday, 2–4 p.m.
Workshops: We’re offering new workshops to address timely career-related topics. A full list of our live, virtual workshops can be
found here. Recordings of completed workshops are also uploaded to the Career Development Center
YouTube channel for students to watch. Here are some of the recent and upcoming workshops we've hosted:
- Job & Internship Search Blueprint: Discovering Opportunities During COVID-19
- Is Graduate School Right for Me? Considerations Amid the Coronavirus
- An Exploration Equation: Identifying Your Career and Major
Online Resources: Students maintain access to all of our virtual resources. These resources include:
Handshake – Loyola’s online job and internship board. Currently, there are more than 5,000 active job and internship opportunities posted on Handshake. New opportunities are added every day!
Handshake also serves as the hub for many of our online resources.
CareerShift – A tool that helps to uncover published and hidden job and internship postings. This search engine could prove very useful as students seek opportunities at or near home. CareerShift is accessible to students through the
resources page on Handshake.
Focus2 – This resource allows students to explore majors and careers based on results from assessments of work interests, values, personality, skills, and leisure interests.
Find it here!
What Can I Do With This Major? – This large database of majors provides details related to career opportunities for each major and can help your student determine
What Can I Do With This Major?
GoingGlobal – A resource for the international job and internship search.
This tool also provides extensive HB1 hiring information for international students.
Social Media –
We're here to #EmployThePack! Our social media channels are committed to providing relevant, practical, and insightful career content for students to explore major and career options, get into graduate school, and plan for their future careers! Connect with us on
Facebook, Instagram, and
YouTube today!
Handouts – 100% of our career handouts and guides are available online. From resume and cover letter writing to conducting an informational interview, encourage your student to check out our handout and resource guides to get started. Many of our handouts and guides can be found on
our website, but the full library can be accessed from
Handshake.
Questions about any of these programs, services, or resources? Want to learn more or connect your student with a career coach? Email us at career@loyno.edu. We look forward to working with your student!
Jill Boatright
Director, Career Development Center