UToledo Career Services: Virtual Services
Career Studio Hours
Career Ambassadors are back and ready to help you with all your career needs!
Walk-In | Monday-Friday | 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Resume, C.V. & Cover Letter: Virtual Drop Box
Do you not have time to meet with a Career Services professional? Send in your resume, curriculum vitae (CV), or cover letter to be reviewed and returned to you via email with feedback. Please allow at least two business days for documents to be reviewed.
- Engineering Students -- Please submit your resumes to the Shah Center for Engineering Career Development.
- Business Students-- Please submit your resumes to Business Career Programs.
For all undergraduate and graduate students seeking assistance with career exploration, job search/professional skills, or in-depth resume/curriculum vitae (CV) reviews, please schedule a virtual appointment through Handshake with your Career Consultant.
Virtual Career Platforms
Career Services offers a wide range of online tools to help you build your career from self-assessments for exploring career and education possibilities, to strengthening your interview skills. We also offer online tools for exploring job opportunities around the globe and connecting with alumni and businesses across the country.
Assessing, Exploring and Deciding on Majors and Careers
Developing Professional Skills
How do I access these resources?
Log in to the myUT portal, scroll down to the University Career Services section, and click the links.
Please call us at 419.530.4341 if you need assistance with these resources.
FOCUS 2: Career Assessment
FOCUS 2 is a self-paced, online career and education planning tool for college students that is designed to help you make decisions about future career goals and education plans. FOCUS 2 provides five self-assessments to help you identify your top work interests, values, skills, personality type, and leisure time interests and explore occupations and major areas of study compatible with your personal attributes. Students use FOCUS 2 to help choose or change their major and also to verify their choice of a career field.
To get started on FOCUS 2:
First time users: Create a new account.
ACCESS CODE: Rockets
Returning users: Log on (using the account you have already created)
What Can I Do With This Major
What Can I Do With This Major is an online resource designed to help you connect your major to different careers. You will have access to view typical career areas, types of employers that hire within each major, as well as strategies to increase marketability. The website offers search features, majors by category, and links to related professional associations, occupational outlook information, and employment opportunities for more than 90 majors and career fields.
CANDID CAREER
UToledo Alumni Spotlight
CandidCareer has thousands of searchable informational video interviews featuring industry professionals talking about their jobs and offering career tips for students. Better yet, you have instant access to UToledo alumni videos showcasing how their time at UToledo impacted their careers.
Why Should I Explore Candid Career?
CandidCareer is an online tool to explore majors and careers! Virtually meet with over 40 UToledo alums that all come from exciting and diverse career backgrounds. Hear about their journey to where they are now and how the University of Toledo helped them LAUNCH their CAREER.
Handshake: Jobs, Internships and Employer Events
Handshake is an online interactive database where you can find employer events, internships, on-campus jobs, and explore full and part-time employment opportunities. Research careers, connect with fellow students, alums, and recruiters looking to hire our UToledo Rockets!
Current Students
Once you register for classes, you will receive a Handshake account. If you have never logged into Handshake, please follow the steps below to complete your profile.
- Log into your MyUT portal here.
- Locate “University Career Services” in your student tab and select “Handshake.”
- Click the blue login button.
- Complete your profile to personalize your job feed.
Big Interview: Virtual Interview Practice
Big Interview is a tool that will enhance your job interviewing skills and develop
an edge over the competition. Through this interactive tool, you can video record
your responses to practice interview questions and review them or share them with
others. There are tips, sample interview questions, and answers spanning more than
140 industries. In addition, there are other resources to help you prepare for that
big interview. Get both expert training and unlimited interview practice.
GoinGobal: worldwide jobs and internships
GoinGlobal helps new and experienced job seekers find opportunities both at home and abroad. GoinGlobal Career and Employment Resources include worldwide job and internship listings, industry profiles, and country-specific career information. More than 30,000 pages of constantly updated content are included on topics such as work permit/visa regulations, resume writing guidelines and examples, employment trends, salary ranges, networking groups, cultural/interviewing advice, corporate profiles, worldwide job listings, and more.
Parker Dewey: Mirco-Internships
Are you seeking to gain hands-on experience in a professional environment during your college career? The kind of experience will set you apart from other candidates? Try a micro-INTERNSHIP via Parker Dewey!
Micro-internship projects on Parker Dewey come from a variety of industries and disciplines. From working directly with an entrepreneur to supporting a large enterprise, you'll have the opportunity to explore different roles and company cultures. You'll find assignments for marketing like copywriting and working in social media, sales projects like lead generation, operations tasks like building reports, and more.