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Benedictine University Student Services
What Can I Do With This Major
What is it?
A website featuring 106 majors and corresponding information around what your career options are with each major. Additionally, the site provides information regarding employers who hire individuals with these majors and how to leverage your degree for top-tier opportunities.
Leveraging this Resource
- Search for your major and see if it aligns with your current career path
- Utilize in meetings with your Academic Advisor to select classes more intentionally
Handshake – Spring 2026
What is it?
Handshake is a career platform designed to make taking control of your career destination straightforward. The Handshake community consists of over 20 million students, alumni, employers, and career educators all looking to make searching, hiring, and teaching career easier. It is your one-stop shop for anything career.
What you can do with it
- Upload Professional Documents for Review
- Search for Internships & Jobs
- Explore & Research Employers
- Register for Workshops, Webinars, Trainings, and Events
How to maximize it
- Get on it early and often
- Pop in once or twice a week
- Keep up a tab on your computer
ASCEND – Spring 2026
The ASCEND Seminars (Applications, Statements, Career Exploration, and Networking Development) are coming to campus. Designed to help students build essential career skills, these sessions will offer practical guidance on applications, personal statements, career exploration, and professional networking.
More details will be shared once dates are confirmed. In the meantime, here’s a preview of what’s to come:
Professional Documents
Review resume, cover letter, and personal statement best practices. Be ready to prepare your documents to jump start your career journey.
Internship & Job Search Strategies
Learn how to maximize search engines and find helpful resources to better manage the search and optimize your results. Applying for jobs can feel like a full-time job.
Interviewing Tips & Tricks
Interviewing is an art that can be perfected through practice. Practice and you will feel confident walking into your next interview in your ability to paint a vivid verbal-image of what an employer will be getting from you as a perspective employee.
Networking Maximization
Networking can be a bit intimidating at times. But it does not have to be. Knowing who to reach out to, when to reach out to them, how to reach out to them, and what to say could lead to your next employment opportunity.
Interested? Contact Career Services at [email protected]
Quick Hitters
Resume & Cover Letter Tips
- A blank Word Document is the best template you can use to get started with a resume
- Only you know the experiences you have had – Be sure to document everything
- If you are considering utilizing AI to assist, ALWAYS go back and edit to add your voice
- Your Resume & Cover Letters should be tailored to fit each industry, if not each job
Internship & Job Search Tips
- Utilize filters on job search sites
- Keep your keyword to two MAYBE three
- Switch up your search engines to keep the search fresh
- Leverage friends, family, family friends, faculty, staff – No one is off limits
Interview Skills Tricks & Tips
- Practice makes perfect – Interviewing is an art that can be perfected
- Prepackage some answers to free up brain-space for questions you might not expect
- For virtual interviews – Set up your space for professional comfort
- First impressions matter, so err on the side of overly professional then later ease up
LinkedIn Tricks & Tips
- Keep LinkedIn up as a tab on your computer or download the app for your phone
- Complete your profile to a minimum of 65% completed – Include a professional headshot
- Engage with LinkedIn – Like posts, repost articles, follow companies, and connect
- Follow the “Benedictine University” page
Alumni & Career Services
[email protected]