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Recent graduates can make cold outreach much more effective by using alumni connections, demonstrating genuine curiosity, making specific and respectful requests, and prioritizing learning over immediately asking for jobs.
Successful networking is less about having the perfect script and more …
What are the three universal signs that might get your resume skipped over or trashed?
Navigating the job search process can be overwhelming, especially if you’re just starting out in your career journey. Luckily, UMass Lowell provides an incredible resource to help you connect with employers, find job opportunities, and explore career paths: Handshake. Whether …
One tool we always recommend to our students use is Handshake. This platform is the #1 way students can find jobs that fit their career interests. Handshake allows students to discover internships, co-ops, and jobs for recent and upcoming graduates.
With over 100 students in attendance from a wide range of majors, many of my fellow River Hawks heard key insights from the Career Fair Prep Panel; however, in case you missed it, here are some of the tips shared by the experts that stood out most to me.
Chiara, a recruiter for Capital One’s Students & Grads Programs, is here to help you connect and build relationships by sharing her three tips for networking.
Whether you’re looking for remote physician assistant jobs, want to specialize in dermatology or emergency medicine, or are even considering a non-clinical career, there are plenty of options to explore.
Professional development resources are great tools for newly transitioned veterans to help them advance in their careers. By learning new skills and developing relationships with like-minded industry experts, veterans set themselves and their new employers up for success. Here are a few different ways veterans can use professional development to help advance their careers.
Figuring out how to choose a career can feel overwhelming, especially if you’re unsure where to start. Not everyone knows what they want to do from a young age, and with so many paths to consider, it’s easy to get stuck wondering, “How do I choose a career that’s right for me?”
To understand where we are in 2026, we have to look at the shadow cast by “Schedule F.” For those who haven’t been following the OPM legal briefs, Schedule F was a proposed classification that would have stripped civil service protections from tens of thousands of employees involved in “confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating” roles.
The first sentence of your cover letter is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Recruiters spend seconds — not minutes — scanning applications. So if your opener is “I am writing to express my interest in the position,” you’ve already lost them.
The most valuable things parents can do to help a student with career planning are:
While these pieces may seem straightforward, these items can be crucial to students feeling supported while they are completing their degree and what comes after. …
Yes, you can find job opportunities year-round. However, we’ve noticed that industries have certain months where they tend to post the most job, internship or co-op opportunities. We’ve analyzed several years of Handshake job posting data to summarize the top …












