Student resources
Engineering Career Services is here to empower you with lifelong career and professional skills. We have the tools to help you find the job, internship, or co-op of your dreams, and the staff to support you along the way.
Use this site to explore our library of career resources that can help you with resumes, interviewing, career options, job search process, negotiating, skill building and more.
Have career questions? Connect with our advisers during virtual drop-ins or by appointment.
Engineering Career Resources on Handshake
Explore our Career Resources Collection on Handshake to find helpful tips and tools for your job search.
Career Resources Library
- Graduate students: The Preparing Future Faculty Program
Career Development Platforms
Career Exploration
What Can I Do With This Major?
The What Can I Do With This Major? Website will help you connect majors to careers. Learn about typical career areas and types of employers that hire people who graduate from each major.
Vault is a great resource for researching, finding, and evaluating top employers. Check out their industry and career guides along with company rankings and profiles.
Are you wondering where you fit into the engineering or software work world? Explore this video library of thousands of industry professionals sharing about their roles. Also provides some videos of job search tips.
Connect & Grow Your Skills
Utilize Handshake to search for thousands of jobs & internships, access career resources created just for VCU College of Engineering students, register for events & fairs, and schedule appointments with your Engineering Career Advisors.
Log in with VCU eID and password. This website has information and resources to help students find global internships, jobs, and study abroad experiences.
Free to VCU students, LinkedIn Learning offers 5,000+ creative, business, and technology courses, to extend your skill set beyond the classroom.
Apply for paid micro-internships and project-based work (think: part-time projects over 2-3 weeks). Demonstrate your skills, add projects to your resume, and explore career paths. Especially good for CE and CPE students.
For work in the medical device and medtech industry. Share your information and be discovered by major companies. For any engineering major interested in this industry, and especially relevant for BME majors.
Looking for a project to add to your resume? Try these bite-sized 5-6 hour virtual work experience programs to see what it’s like to work in specific fields or companies.
Connect with professionals in your areas of interest with ties to the VCU community. Ask them honest questions related to how they got to where they are, what challenges they’ve faced and what a typical day looks like.
Graduate Students
Beyond Graduate School is an online platform that helps master’s students build their careers. From video lessons on career exploration, to writing application materials, to interviewing and negotiating for that next step – BGS helps master’s students through each stage of their job search.
Beyond the Professoriate is an online professional development tool where postdocs and doctoral students can explore career options and learn job search strategies to secure employment in academia and beyond.
The Grad School - Preparing Future Faculty
Seeking a career in academia? Add this 12-credit certificate to your credentials and gain necessary skills for success in academia, preparing you to step confidently into a faculty role.
