University Career Center Web Sites

Woodrow Wilson once said that: “I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow”.  (This quote appears at the beginning of a ten page Complete Guide to Informational Interviewing and Networking posted by the University of Houston).

Excellent information on the job search process is posted online by university career centers.  Many centers have collections of tip sheets, handouts, or articles on various topics that can be downloaded or viewed online. Some university sites even have entire comprehensive manuals on job search that can either be viewed or downloaded. Three examples from the Pacific Northwest are: 

Oregon State University has their 33 page 2006-2007 Career Guide posted for viewing @ http://oregonstate.edu/career/students/careerguide06-07.pdf

University of Washington’s Center for Career Services has their 31 page 2006-2007 Career Guide posted @ http://depts.washington.edu/careers/pdf/careerguide.pdf

The University of Oregon has a career center page @ http://uocareer.uoregon.edu/students/resumes-and-interviews.aspx
They have a 48-page resume and cover letter guide @ http://uocareer.uoregon.edu/media/resumeguide.pdf
They also have a 16-page guide to the job search and interview @ http://uocareer.uoregon.edu/media/jobsrchguide.pdf

Also, Pennsylvania State University has a 52 page 2006-7 Career Guide for Graduate Students @ http://www.sa.psu.edu/career/pdf/Grad_Stdt_Booklet.pdf Their other handouts are @ http://www.sa.psu.edu/career/jobsearch.shtml

Purdue University has a 68 page job search manual posted @ https://www.cco.purdue.edu/common/CCOJobSearchManual.pdf
Their brief guide to job search skills is @ https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Alumni/JobSearchSkills.shtml

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Here are the web addresses for Portland Sate University and nine other universities that also have lots of information on a variety of topics. The articles, handouts, guides, or tip sheets range from one or two page summaries to very detailed ten or twelve page documents.   

Portland State University, Career Center @ http://www.pdx.edu/careers/experience.html
See the heading titled “help writing resumes and cover letters”.
Also see the “What can I do with a major in…?” page  @ http://www.career.pdx.edu/linkmajors.htm for lists of places of employment, and in some cases who has been hiring grads with specific majors (such as mechanical engineering).

Washington State University Career Services @ http://www.careers.wsu.edu/content/ResourceCenter/

Stanford University, Cardinal Career Center @ http://cardinalcareers.stanford.edu/guides/strategies.html

University of California, Berkeley, Career Center (over 100 articles) @ http://career.berkeley.edu/Article/Archive.stm

Yale University, School of Management @ http://www.som.yale.edu/careers/jobsearch/

Johns Hopkins University, Career Center @ http://www.jhu.edu/~careers/handouts.html

University of Chicago, Career Advising and Planning Services @ http://caps.uchicago.edu/resources/handouts/

Columbia University, Center for Career Education @ http://www.cce.columbia.edu/students/basics/tipsheets.php

University of Houston, University Career Services @ http://www.career.uh.edu/general/ucsHandouts/ucsHandouts.cfm
Their ten page Complete Guide to Informational Interviewing and Networking begins with the Woodrow Wilson quote shown above.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Career Center @ http://www.careercenter.uiuc.edu/
This has useful information under the heading of “Represent yourself well”  

The above examples are a just a sample of what is online. Lists of Career Centers have been compiled by Purdue University, both arranged alphabetically @ https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Alumni/Reciprocity_CareerCentersABC.shtml
and also by state or country @ https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Alumni/Reciprocity_CareerCentersState.shtml
 
Please direct comments to Richard Garber, r_garber@hotmail.com Last updated 2007 01 10