Recent Graduates

• Find hiring events and jobs with employers who want to hire Golden Eagles.
  • If you used Handshake as a student, log in to Handshake and in your Handshake settings, change your primary email to your personal email.
  • New to Handshake? Create an alumni account in Handshake using your personal email.
    • Your request will be pending our verification of your alumni status.
    • You will receive an email from Handshake when approved.
• Find potential employers mapped by college majors; search: Employers by Major.
• Use the Google search feature to find openings in your major and local area and directly apply on the company's job site: How to Search for Jobs on Google.
• Search these lists of Top Corporate Inclusion Programs (Student/Recent Graduate Internships) and Employers with Dedicated Early Career Programs.
• Professional associations are a great source of additional information on jobs; search: Professional Associations Search 

• Update your résumé with your experiences in college to demonstrate your readiness; use our Résumé Writing Guide and Résumé Review Checklist
• Create a cover letter that directly addresses where you are applying; use our Cover Letter Guide and Cover Letter Review Checklist.
• Easily create or edit your résumé and cover letter using our Résumé and Letter Builder and use the AI feedback and job keyword analysis to make sure your documents align with the job (our samples are also in the builder).

Make Your Résumé Pop 

The Cover Letter 

• Use our Interview Practice System → choose a mock interview → select a general one and choose an industry interview to practice.
  • Get AI feedback on your interview performance in the Interview Practice System, including tips on how to respond to job and industry-specific questions.
  • Complete a Fast Track or Mastery Track lesson on the Interview Practice System to learn how to address the most frequent interview questions.
  • Review the Interview Playbooks in the Interview Practice System to get interview advice for various situations, including new graduates, resume gaps, career changers, overqualified candidates, military transition, disabilities, neurodiversity, ESL, adult reentry/restored citizens, and introverts.

What Recruiters Look For

• Use our Job Application Tracker to you organize your employment search.

LinkedIn is an employment and business-focused social media platform and job board. You can connect, share, and learn from professionals on LinkedIn. You can also find and apply for job openings.

• Create or update your LinkedIn profile using the
  LinkedIn Profile Checklist.
• Start your job search on LinkedIn with the
  LinkedIn Job Search Checklist.
• Join the Career Center LinkedIn group.

Stand Out on LinkedIn

• Use What Can I Do with This Major to explore career pathways.
• Use our self-guided Focus2 career assessments to assess your work interests, values, skills, personality, and leisure interests.

Use your projects and skills to stand out.

• Key Skills for Recent Graduates – Demonstrate skills employers value:
  • Career Readiness Skills - Understand the professional skills you built through college coursework, group projects, and campus involvement.
  • Industry-specific Skills - See how your major built hard skills and values that align with your target industry.
  • Skills-First Initiative - Review standardized skills for common jobs to identify transferable skills from your work experience.
• Add class projects to your résumé; use our
  College Résumé Sample as a guide.
• Earn certificates on LinkedIn Learning; add them to your résumé.
• Complete virtual job simulations on Career Experiences with Forage; list them on your résumé.
• Use the Credential Value Index to explore useful certifications.