Faculty and Staff

Career Development Toolkit. The Career Development Toolkit is an award-winning career resource consisting of modules in Canvas. A module consists of a series of ordered pages with built-in interactive activities. View in Chrome or Firefox. Learn more about the Toolkit here.

Career Counseling. We offer in-depth assistance for students who want to clarify career direction or discover occupations of interest. In addition, students can meet with career advisors specializing in a wide range of interest areas.

Job-Search Coaching. Professional advisors offer individualized assistance with career planning and all aspects of the job search—remotely and in person.

Handshake. We provide a robust listing of jobs and internships from employers that want to recruit our incredibly talented students for jobs and internships. Learn more here.

Resume and Cover Letter Assistance. We provide information on preparing resumes and cover letters on this site and in Canvas. In addition, a career or peer advisor will review the content and presentation of resumes and career-related correspondence.

Interview Preparation. We offer a wide range of assistance in preparing for interviews, including simulated interviews, in which we provide feedback on verbal and nonverbal communication skills.

Summer Jobs and Internships. Short-term positions—on campus, elsewhere in Ithaca, or away from campus—that can help students clarify career options and gain valuable career-related experience are also included in Handshake.

Campus Recruiting. Nearly 400 employers visit campus each year to conduct interviews with students for summer and full-time employment.

Employer Information Sessions. Employers arrange in-person and virtual sessions to introduce students to their organizations. The sessions provide a forum for job seekers to meet potential employers and for undergraduates to learn more about a particular employer or career field.

Employer Career Fairs. Career fairs offer virtual and on-campus opportunities to gather information, develop networks, and meet employers from a variety of sectors, including corporate, environmental, not-for-profit, hospitality, consulting, and many, many more.

LAUNCH. The Liberal Arts Undergrad Network for Careers & Hiring (LAUNCH) is a virtual interview day for juniors and seniors from the Colleges of Arts & Sciences that provides interviews for internships and full-time employment in Consulting, Education, Finance, Health Services, Legal Services, Medical Research, Nonprofits, and Publishing. Consortium interviews take place virtually in January.

Ivy+ Sustainability Fair & Consortium. This spring event is for students from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, UChicago, and Yale to find internship or full-time opportunities in the sustainability field.

Advising and Programs. Services are offered on the graduate school application process, including personal essays, exam study guides, sample admissions tests, and registration materials for national tests. Directories of graduate study are also available.

Law and Health Conference Events. Representatives from over 150 schools offer information and advice on programs of study and application procedures during the Pre-Health Conference and Pre-Law Conference days in the fall semester.

Pre-Law. Advising and programs are offered on the application process, including personal statements. Resources include survey information on Cornellians at U.S. law schools and statistics on where Cornellians apply with acceptances/denials.

Competitive Fellowships. Cornell Career Services provides advice on eligibility and support during the application process for selected competitive awards for undergraduate and graduate study or research. Most of these are competitions that require University endorsement. Review our section on Prestigious Fellowships for information that can help your students and advisees.

CUeLINKS. This online resource enables students to obtain career advice from alumni and other professionals working in diverse fields.

Informational Interviews. Students are also encouraged to conduct information interviews in person during semester breaks. Let us know if you are interested in participating.

Alumni Events. Alumni participate in career panels, career days, on-campus recruiting, employer career fields, and information sessions to help students establish contacts and learn about specific career fields.