Career Services for Students

The Office of Career Services provides the opportunity to:

  • Explore the intersection of your values, interests, skills and strengths, and align those with career and educational opportunities.
  • Gain experiences that allow you to build skills and networks, e.g., through internships, coursework, summer jobs, or research.
  • Find, evaluate and employ a variety of print, electronic and interpersonal resources to make educational and career choices.
  • Effectively communicate your accomplishments in resumes, cover letters and  interviews.

Appointments and Drop-ins

You can make an appointment through our career management system called Handshake. To schedule an appointment, log in to Handshake with your @hmc.edu email, select “Career Center” in the upper left corner, then “Appointments”. Watch for announcements about drop-in hours in our newsletter.

For Specific Populations

Career Services is here to help specifically identified populations, such as international students, LGBTQIA students, students of color and students with disabilities. Please see the Job Search Toolbox below for helpful resources.

Outside Scholarship Information

OCS Resources

Career Guide

Whether you are selecting a major, exploring occupations, building relationships with recruiters, searching for jobs and internships or preparing for graduate school, we’ve created this guide to help.

VMock

Transform your job search experience with this 24/7, the cutting-edge AI-powered resume help platform designed to elevate your applications. Whether you’re crafting your first resume or refining an existing one, the intelligent tools offer personalized guidance to make your application stand out. Login to VMock with your HMC “University ID” single sign-on credentials and receive FREE access. Once you’ve uploaded and edited your resume with VMock, make an appointment with OCS for a final check.

Interstride

Interstride is a career platform created by international students, for international students. Interstride helps international and globally-engaged students with a job board, resources and webinars.

Majors to Careers

When deciding on a major as it relates to a possible career, it often helps to see what HMC graduates have done. OCS has created career monographs, also known as “What Can I Do with a Major,” to show you which employers have hired graduates and from what major; what their job titles have been; what the average salary has been; where they have found internships and the average internship wages, and where they have been accepted to graduate school.

Internships

OCS has compiled resources to help you find a successful internship experience.

Studying Abroad

OCS has created resources to help you make the most of your study abroad experience.’

Summer Research

Resources to help you find research opportunities.

Job Search Toolbox

OCS has compiled helpful links for your job search. The toolbox includes resources for diverse audiences. Also there are resources for specific industries, employment agencies, salary and cost-of-living calculators to help you search for that first position.

Handling Job and Internship Offers

Read the OCS guidelines for handling your offers as well as suggested time frames for acceptances.

MUSE – Create Your Own Website or Portfolio

College students with career objectives from creative fields to tech to finance can use Muse to create vivid portfolios to represent their skills, competencies, interests and accomplishments and stand out to potential employers.

Muse is a no-code online site-building tool that enables users to create attractive pages using simple building blocks and to integrate all of their content — including LinkedIn and a traditional resume — and all channels from across the web into one portfolio. Muse requires no knowledge of coding or design and takes a small fraction of the time required to use traditional web-building tools.  It can be used to create a personal site that can link to your resume, your LinkedIn profile contact information section, and to any social media as a link-in-bio.