Career Communities
What is a career community?
Career Communities are a way to explore careers based on what interests you, not just what you study. Each community brings together resources, events, employers, alumni, and opportunities related to a broad area of work. Whether you already know where you’re headed or are still figuring it out, Career Communities can help you discover possibilities, gain experience, and connect with people in fields that interest you.
Career Community Benefits
- Jobs, internships, research and volunteer opportunities curated for members of the community
- Announcements of workshops, employer info sessions, professional development opportunities, and career fairs targeted to communities
This community focuses on understanding organizations, markets, and decision-making to solve real-world problems. Students build skills in strategy, analysis, communication, and leadership that lead to careers in business management, finance, consulting, operations, and entrepreneurship.
This community focuses on storytelling, expression, performance, design, and media production to inform, entertain, and inspire audiences. Students develop creative, technical, and collaborative skills that lead to careers in the arts, media, entertainment, communications, and creative industries.
This community is about using data to find patterns, answer questions, and support better decisions. Students build strong quantitative, analytical, and modeling skills that lead to careers in data science, analytics, AI, research, economics, finance, and policy analysis.
This community centers on the study and practice of government, law, public policy, advocacy, and social change. Students interested in serving the public good, advancing justice, influencing decision-making, and strengthening communities can explore career paths, build professional networks, and gain hands-on experience through this community.
This community focuses on improving the health, well-being, development, learning, and success of individuals and communities. Students develop scientific, interpersonal, analytical, and helping skills that lead to careers in healthcare, mental health, human services, education, public health, and community-based organizations.
Students in this community explore the natural world through scientific inquiry, experimentation, observation, and data analysis. Career pathways span biology, chemistry, physics, environmental science, sustainability, biotechnology, healthcare research, GIS, data science, and scientific innovation.
This community focuses on the interconnected challenges of environmental change, sustainability, and global systems. Students develop interdisciplinary skills in systems thinking, research, policy analysis, and problem solving that lead to careers in sustainability, environmental policy, climate science, conservation, and global development.
This community centers on designing, building, securing, and maintaining digital systems and technologies. Students develop analytical thinking, technical, logical, and problem-solving skills that prepare them for careers in software development, IT, cybersecurity, systems engineering, and emerging tech fields.
How To Join A Career Community
- Log into Handshake
- Click your profile icon on the top right hand side & chose “my career interests” from the drop down menu
- Scroll down and select the Career Communities you want to join and click “save my career interests.”
