GRADUATE STUDENT ONLINE RESOURCES

The following resources are available to Loyola students. Please contact The Career Center for usernames and passwords, thecareercenter@loyola.edu, 410-617-2232.


Career Exploration

Alumni Career Network
Available through Hounds4Hire (under the "mentor" feature).
Network with Loyola graduates who have volunteered to provide career guidance for students and alumni. Alumni can be a fundamental part of the job search and a great resource for gaining information about a particular career field, geographical location, and job and internship opportunities.

Focus
Focus, a career and educational planning system, consists of the following self exploration assessments: current career planning status, interests and work values, education and training, personality and life values, leisure time preferences, and current or future skills.

Interest Testing
Assess your interests and personality type relating to possible careers. Initial meeting with a Career Advisor is required.

Industry Information

CareerSearch
Available through Hounds4Hire.
CareerSearch is an internet-based, employer research system containing a database of more than 3.5 million companies. With this tool you can search over 3.5 million companies worldwide, 250 publications, 9 million executives, 400 city reports and more than 300,000 web sites. This comprehensive system available in Hounds4Hire.

Vault On-Line Career Library
Submit Loyola email address through The Career Center website to receive password.
This one-line library provides students with their own online copy of 60+ Vault guidebooks, over 2,500 company profiles and discussion boards, dozens of industry and occupation overviews, and a vast database of Vault career advice articles.  In this challenging job market, it's a great way to conduct career and interview research.

Job and Internship Search

ExecuNet
**Associated fee depending on membership (see website for details)**
ExecuNet is recognized as the Internet's most comprehensive resource for effective career management, exclusively for executives and senior-level managers with salaries above $150,000. Through ExecuNet, you can gain access to daily executive job postings, job search and career advancement guidance and information, and monthly networking meeting opportunities.

Goinglobal
(Available only through Hounds4Hire)
Goinglobal offers expert advice and resources for finding jobs and internships both at home and abroad. Find more than 35,000 country-specific career and employment resources, corporate profiles for key employers in 31 countries, worldwide internship and job listings, and a global chat forum.

Hounds4Hire (formerly eRecruiting)
Contact The Career Center to activate your account.
Students can develop and upload resumes and cover letters, publish resumes for employer viewing, select on-campus interview times and search for jobs, internships, and employer information. Students can also gain access to company profiles using Hoovers Search.

Internships.com
Create your own account using your Loyola email address.
Internships.com is the largest database of up-to-date internships offered to students. There are postings for the US as well as abroad. Search my major, compensation and/or location to locate an opportunity that suits your needs. 

Internships USA
**Click on The Internship Series on line**
Internships-USA.com is the largest internship site on the web with more than 3,000 organizations offering internships for college and law students.

International Employment Weekly
Each issue contains over 500 current international job listings.

NACElink (National Association of Colleges and Employers)
Create your own username and password.
This resource from NACE allows you to access job postings and employers, create and store resumes, and apply for jobs on-line.

TheLadders.com
**Enter the promotional code 99402 here to receive a 25% discount off membership fees.**
TheLadders.com offers online job search resources and content for the $100k+ job seekers and recruiters. Their specialized job search engines cover the following fields: Sales, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Law, Technology, Operations, and more. Obtain expert career advice and career planning resources as well as proactively reach out and network with recruiters in your industry and location of interest.

Additional Resources (Graduate Business Students Only)

• Provide you with expert assessments of your unique pattern of business-relevant interests, values and abilities.
• Integrate your results, recommending specific career paths that are likely to be your best career path matches.
• Rate your entrepreneurial attributes.
• Provide you with in-depth views into 27 business career paths, including information about the interests, rewards and abilities associated with each one. Many career paths also include an in-depth interview with an industry insider, for further insights.
• Help you to understand key elements of corporate culture and how you will fit in with each.
• Recognize and help you to cure your career "Achilles Heels".  

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