Career-related help we provide for you:

Undecided about major or career direction? Explore careers and majors

Need experience? Externships | Internships | Co-op

Unsure what kind? Ways to get career-related experience during college

Final year of school? Start your job search: from resume to relocation

Another degree for your career goal? Plan for grad or professional school

Job hunting as you complete a master's or Ph.D.? Grad student job search

 

Special interests:

• Diverse students
• International students
• Students with disabilities
• LGBT students
• Graduate students

Topics in more detail:

Explore careers & majors

• Guide to Undergraduate Majors
• Choosing a major
• What can I do with my major?
• Career Resource Center

Get experience: about the variety of ways

• Externships
  January job-shadowing program. Visit shadow for 1-5 days during break before spring semester starts. Application process in fall.
• Internships
  • Internship web sites
• Co-op
  Everything you need to know about the Cooperative Education & Internship Program at Virginia Tech.

Plan for grad & professional school

• Events to help you prepare
• Finding schools, choosing schools, entrance exams, more
• Graduate and professional school fairs
• Should you go?

Job search, from resumes to relocation

• Hokies4Hire & On-Campus Interviewing
  

  For undergraduate and graduate students.
  For internships, co-ops, and post-graduation jobs.
  Let employers find you: UPLOAD your resume.
  You find employers and jobs: APPLY for jobs, including jobs in the On-Campus Interviewing Program — that spans nine weeks of each semester.

• Job listing sites
  • Internship web sites
  • Web sites for career fields
  • Going Global: international job search
  • Staying local: Virginia & local resources
• Resumes
• Cover letters
  Guidelines and samples. Various letters — hard copy and e-mail — that you'll write in the job search process.
• Interviewing
• Deciding on a job offer
  Including salary info, accepting, declining, relocating, etc.
  • Salary info & negotiating
• CareerSearch database
• Hot topics

Advising

• Appointments & walk-in at Career Services
• Departmental career advisors (in academic major departments)
• Co-op and internship advisors by major
• Pre-professional school advisors
• VT CareerLink: Alumni volunteers for networking
  For career information and advice on your job search

Events

• Semester events calendar
• Upcoming / this week
• Career and job fairs
• Connection co-op & internship job fair
• Graduate & professional school fairs
• Graduate & professional school info & test prep
• Graduate student seminars
• Majors fair
• Dining etiquette dinner
• Cancellation policy & notices

Get experience in Career Services

• Career Associates
• Internships
• Graduate Assistantship
• Graduate practica and internships

Where do VT grads go?

• Post-Graduation Report
  Each academic year, we survey the bachelor's degree graduates.
  Based on that survey we report — for the university and each college and major:
  • VT grads' first jobs, employers & locations
  • Salaries; medium, and 25th & 75th percentiles
  • Numbers and percentages employed
  • Numbers and percentages attending grad school
  • Graduate, professional schools and other further education, by major
  • How grads found jobs, and more.