Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills

Many of your students may already be applying for on-campus jobs, summer internships, or even full-time post-grad opportunities. We’ll be breaking down how to best build your student’s résumés as well as provide any relevant career resources to set them up for success and to help them land that first interview!

If you don’t see employers from your field, you’re not alone. Their absence doesn’t mean they aren’t hiring UConn students. Many organizations recruit through channels that better align with their hiring needs. 

Your resume is your ultimate personal marketing tool to highlight your relevant skills and experiences to a specific audience. When you’re in college and beyond, you will use your resume at all stages of your academic and career journey while …

Attending a Career Fair to speak with employers and make new connections can be one of the most impactful experiences for your professional journey. With this exciting opportunity at hand, it’s important that you do as much preparation as possible …

You may have been asked upon graduating High School: “So, what do you want to study in College?” But do you really have to make such a quick decision? Below are some testimonials of advice for choosing your major and the resources available to you as a Husky! 

Students often feel pressured to have everything figured out as they step into college, but the journey of UConn class of 2016 alumna Lila was anything but straightforward. Fueled by her ambition to seek financial independence and guided by persistence and flexibility, she was able to transform uncertainty into success.  

When Mark Zdunek first arrived at UConn, he carried the confidence of a high-honors high school student. But his first semester told a different story; a 2.3 first-semester GPA caught him off-guard and forced an early reckoning: college would require a new work approach.

Don Bell, an attorney and UConn CLAS ‘10 and UConn Law ‘13 graduate, currently works as Policy Counsel for the Project on Government Oversight. Bell’s transition from working on Capitol Hill to an educational setting grew naturally out of his admiration for his time at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

For many students, choosing a career in healthcare begins with a desire to help others. For Dr. Marc Novak, dentistry became the perfect way to combine that goal with something else he enjoyed: working with his hands and building meaningful connections with patients. But as Novak’s career shows, entering the healthcare field is only the beginning; the real challenge comes in transitioning from student to professional.