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LinkedIn recently launched a powerful suite of tools for students to research and pursue job opportunities tailored just for them.
Through Micro-Internships with Parker Dewey, students can demonstrate their skills, explore career paths, and develop their professional networks. These paid opportunities typically range from 5 to 40 hours of work, and students can be selected for multiple Micro-Internships.
- Complete the Agile Work Profiler and upload a PDF of your results into the Documents section of your Parker Dewey profile.
- Create your account on Parker Dewey. Be sure to add Kansas Micro-Internship Program to your profile in the Affiliations section.
- Apply to all projects that interest you.
All Micro-Internship opportunities are posted on the Parker Dewey platform. To see a list of companies participating in this program and other information, click here.
The OOH is updated yearly and has an abundance of information about 100's of occupations including:
- Required training/education
- Average earnings
- Expected job prospects
- On-the-job experiences and working conditions
The O*NET is another type of occupational research guide. You can research jobs by career cluster or by job prospect. You can also search by comparing your education and skills to those required by careers.
Glassdoor.com provides great information about company salaries, reviews and interview questions for thousands of companies.
Big Interview is an online system that combines training and practice to help you improve your interview technique and build your confidence through: Challenging, virtual mock interviews for all experience levels and dozens of industries. A database of thousands of interview questions with tips on how to answer them.
Whether you're looking for that perfect job, that perfect employee or information on an industry or workforce, KANSASWORKS is for you.
Everything you need to find, apply, and get an internship all in one place.
Reference USA is an excellent source for researching companies across the United States. Job seekers can locate businesses they want to work for, look at company size, and locate information on their websites. Click on the link above to check it out!
Hispanic Network Magazine
A Latino Business and Employment digital magazine with articles discussing careers, diversity and inclusion, government, higher education, and more.
On this podcast, we tell the stories of people in a wide variety of career paths, who pursued all kinds of college majors and minors, often with bumps and detours along the way, to get to where they are today. We talk specifically about what you can do in college to work toward your career goals, and what other factors can impact your choices throughout your education and career. Life happens, plans change, and YOU change! It will be ok, and you will find your path. We hope these stories are encouraging and help give you new ideas as you take the next steps on your own path. Learn from our stories, which like yours, are each a Path In Progress.
Nethubb provides students access to membership-based organization to establish and expand their professional networks.
