Career Resources

  • Career Checklists -- A roadmap for each year of your four years at UConn.

  • Job Interview Skills -- What should you expect in an interview? What are the steps you can take to be ready? These are just a few of the interview skills addressed in this document.

  • Guides and Booklets -- located outside room 228E, Student Services suite
  1. Free Choices, Job Search, and Internship Guides
  2. Free Graduate School Guides
  3. Job/Internship Binders
  4. "What You Can Do With A Major" handouts

  • Career Development Web sites:
  • Community Organization Contacts -- A list of community organizations, including agency descriptions, contact name(s), email addresses and phone numbers.

Department of Career Services, Storrs
Click on HuskyCareerLink in the left margin to access a Web-based system and connect with employers, find information about career fairs, view job postings, and access VAULT, an industry research tool. Students can research majors by going to http://www.uconn.edu/majors.

Husky Alumni Network
The new Husky Alumni Network connects alumni with students and alumni with alumni. Incoming first-year students as well as sophomores, juniors and seniors can access the Career Network portion of the Husky Alumni Network to contact alumni and learn about a career field. Seniors only can post resumes and search for jobs.

Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook
Information includes, professional organizations, training and education, earnings expected job prospects what workers do on the job, and working conditions.

O*Net Occupational Information Network
Information about specific occupations, take a skill inventory to see how you match up with a job.

UConn's Internship Site
Newly created in fall 2007, lists hundreds of internship opportunities for most majors.