UCR Career Center

Your Professional Career Starts Here

The Career Center is a safe and welcoming place to explore career paths or hone in on your dream career and the steps to achieve it. By acquainting yourself with the wide variety of services the Center provides, you can maximize both your career search time and your world-class UC Riverside education. Below is a quick overview of the services available to students.

Career Planning

• Individual Career Counseling for Career Planning
• Major Choice Assistance and Vocational Testing
• Career exploration seminars

Drop-In Counseling

• 10 essential minutes with a Career Counselor
• No appointments necessary
• Drop-In Hours:
  Monday - Thursay: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
  Friday: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Career Resource Room

• Career literature, Resume and Cover Letter Guides, Computer Lab, Internship directories, Occupational field information, Salary Surveys, and Employment Outlook

Job Search Assistance

• SCOTjobs - Online Jobs and Careers database for UCR students
• Job Search, Resume Writing and Interviewing Workshops
• Resume Builder - online interview skills training in SCOTLink
• On-campus interviews: Oct - May
• Annual job and career fairs
• Part-time, temporary and summer (in SCOTjobs)
• Work-Study job listings

Internships

• Gain pre-professional or professional experienceOption to earn Academic Credit or simply gain experience
• On-line internship database (in SCOTjobs)

Graduate and Professional School Application Assistance

• Letters of Recommendation Files with Interfolio
• InterviewStream to assist with professional school interviews
• Information on online scholarship/fellowship search