The Career Center provides students with the skills and resources needed to choose the major and career path that best suits their interests. Thousands of employment connections both on and off-campus help students earn money, build their experience, and achieve their career goals.
More than 93% of students move into professional jobs or graduate school within six months of graduation. Career Center programs and services include:
 
PLAN YOUR CAREER
Career Advising: Meet one-on-one with a career specialist that focuses on your program of study. Peer Career Advisors provide resume critiques and basic career advice on a walk-in basis. Professional Career Advisors help students identify the jobs and internships that best match their interests, schedule, skill level and experience.
 
Career Workshops: Develop skills and learn to make well-informed career choices through numerous different workshops each quarter including Resumes & Cover Letters, Interviewing skills, Negotiation Skills, Networking Skills, Job Search Strategies, How to Find an Internship, Portfolio Development, and Managing Career Transitions.
 
Career Assessments: Identify personality strengths and career possibilities using Choices Career Planner, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or Strong Interest Explorer assessment tools.
 
GAIN EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC CREDIT
University Internship Program (UIP) and Cooperative Education (Co-op): Get academic credit and income in career-related jobs during sophomore, junior or senior year with an internship or co-op.
 
FIND JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
On-Campus Employment: Students not only earn a paycheck, they build progressive and career-relevant experience through an array of part-time on-campus jobs.
 
Job & Internship Fairs:  Large-scale recruiting events provide students the opportunity to connect with hundreds of hiring employers in one day.
 
On-Campus Recruiting (OCR) and Company Presentations: allow students to meet and interview with Chicago’s top organizations on campus each quarter. 

Job & Internship Listings: Employers post thousands of jobs and internships annually through DePaul’s web-based recruiting system, eRecruiting. Through eRecruiting, students can not only search for jobs, they can also post their resumes to industry-specific Online Resume Books which employers peruse for qualified candidates.
 
CONNECT WITH ALUMNI
ASK: Students can build relationships with working professionals and find career mentors through DePaul’s Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) career mentoring and networking program.
 
Practice Interviews: Meet one-on-one with alumni volunteers for a practice interview and learn how to ask the right questions and have appropriate answers during a job interview.
 
Career Networking Events: allow students an opportunity to learn from and meet with alumni and professionals, working in a wide variety of functions and organizations. 

Financial Literacy Program

The Career Center website features information, connections, research tools and links to valuable career information. Learn where DePaul University students go upon graduation, get salary statistics and more, by visiting the Career Center website.