Get Feedback from Career Specialists
Before you start your job search, get feedback on application materials.
You can submit the following:
- resume
- cover letter
- Handshake profile
- LinkedIn profile
- elevator pitch
Learn at your own pace & get personalized feedback.
The Career Center's Brightspace site offers a full series of short, self-paced modules on common career questions. Pick & choose the topics you want and submit OPTIONAL "assignments" for timely, personalized feedback.
Browse Module topics below:
Get Started
- Reflect on Your Interests, Values and Skills
- UVM Connect & Career Interest Groups
- Explore Career Possibilities
- Help Choosing a Major / Minor
- Campus Engagement
- S.M.A.R.T. Goals
- Set Up Your Handshake Profile
- Start Your College Resume
Gain Experience / Connections
- Reflect on Experience / Skills
- Creating and Using LinkedIn
- Setting up Informational Interviews
- Crafting an Elevator Pitch
- Job Shadowing
- Internships
- Job Search Strategies
- Cover Letters
- Interviewing Tips
Gear Up to Graduate
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Asking for Professional References
- Virtual Interviews
- Decision-making
- Graduate School
- Quick Guide to Finances
- Salary Negotiation
- Working Remotely
Career Badges
Separate from our main Brightspace site, our Career Badging program consists of guided mini-courses that move students through a series of modules and tasks. When all tasks are completed, students are awarded a badge for that level.
Career Starter Badge
This is a course designed to equip first-year students with foundational tools/skills/knowledge for future success.
Content includes:
- Reflect on your interests & skills
- Join a Career Interest Group
- Start your college resume
- Start your Handshake profile
- Learn what careers are possible
- Get to know a career
- Find a club that fits you
- Meet the FOUR office
- Find campus employment
- Set S.M.A.R.T. goals
Career Builder Badge
This is a course designed for 2nd and 3rd year students who looking to gain or articulate valuable experience.
Content includes:
- Reflect on Skills & Experience
- The Art of Storytelling
- Create and Use LinkedIn
- Networking Online
- Informational Interviews
- Job Search Strategies
- Guide to Internships
- Decode a Job Description
- Refine Your Resume
- Write a Cover Letter
Career Launcher Badge
Coming in Fall 2024
Need help? Drop-by!
Everything from narrowing down your career field to applying for a job - our Peer Leaders are available to answer your career-related questions 10 am to Noon, Monday - Thursday.