Career-related help we provide for you:

Undecided about major or career direction?
Explore careers and majors

Need experience? Get career-related experience during college
Including:  Externships |  Internships | Cooperative Education

Final year of school? 
Job search guide

Another degree for your career goal?
Plan for grad or professional school
Health Professions Advising Office (OHPA)

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

 

Topics in more detail:

Explore careers & majors

• Undergraduate Majors A-Z
• Choosing a major
• What can I do with my major?
• Career Resource Center

Get experience: variety of ways

• Externships
  Job-shadowing program. Visit / shadow for 1-5 days during break.
• About internships
  Internship web sites
• Cooperative Education
  The Undergraduate Cooperative Education & Internship Program (CEIP) at Virginia Tech.

Plan for grad & professional school

• Events to help you prepare
• Finding schools, choosing schools, entrance exams, more
• Health Professions Advising Office (OHPA) for preparing for any health profession requiring education beyond your VT bachelor's degree.
• Graduate and professional school fairs
• Should you go?

Job & internship search guide

• 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 eight weeks of each semester.

• Job, internship and career info web sites: for college students & by career field
• Resume guide
• Cover letters and other job search correspondence
  Guidelines and samples. Various letters — hard copy and e-mail — that you'll write in the job search process.
• Interviewing skills guide
• Job offers
  Acknowledging, responding, ethical issues, accepting, declining.
  • Salary info & negotiating
• CareerShift job search research tool

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

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

What do VT grads do?

• 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; median, 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.