Career & Professional Development Programs
Fisk University
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Career Center at Illinois
The Career Center at Illinois provides an extensive list of services to help students prepare for job applications: online and in-person resume/cover letter review service; Career Drop-ins; Preparing for a Career Fair; Mock Interview Coaching; Career Closet for borrowing gently used professional clothing; Career Center Resource Library with books on career, internship, interview preparation, and networking.
The Career Center also provides Career Advice Videos, covering a broad range of topics such as: Advice from Graduates; Get a Government Job; How Do You Get THAT Jobs?; Email Etiquette; Networking; Career Fair Success; Internships; Interview Dress; Interview – Before, During, After; Salary & Negotiation; Social Media & Job Search.
Career Development Programs
- The Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3) Academy helps prepare doctoral students for academic careers through a series of workshops, seminars, and activities that cover various aspects of becoming a highly productive faculty member.
- The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning offers self-paced teaching certificate programs to help meet the professional development needs and interests of all teachers at UIUC.
- Professional Skills for Careers in Biosciences (PSCB) is a workshop-based certificate program for improving job skills, including communication, professionalism, marketing, budgeting, and leadership. This program is offered by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB).
Career Fairs
UIUC holds some of the largest Career Fairs in the country:- Handshake, a campus-wide recruiting platform containing tens of thousands of advertisements for jobs and internship.
- Engineering Career Services
- ACES + LAS Career Fair
- MCB Career Services
- CS-ECE Corporate Connection Program
- Information Sciences Career Fair
- Statistics & Mathematics Career Forum