Connect Classroom to Career
U Career Success is committed to collaborating with academic departments, faculty, advisors, and offices across campus to support their students' career development needs. Providing career education for students is a community effort, and we appreciate your commitment to ensuring every student reaches their personal and professional goals. Below, you can learn more about our educational resources and partnership opportunities.
Ways to Engage
U Career Success strives to provide relevant and engaging career-related information to students through a variety of interactive methods rooted in best practices and a learning-outcomes based approach.
Request a Workshop
U Career Success strives to provide relevant and engaging career-related information to students through a variety of interactive methods rooted in best practices and a learning-outcomes approach. Click below to see the topics we offer and to request a workshop for your students.
Request an Assignment
Whether you've already developed an assignment, or you’d like to collaborate with our team to develop one, please submit an Assignment Request Form so we can ensure capacity for timely completion of the assignment. A member of our team will contact you within 5 business days to discuss your request.
To read our assignment type descriptions, click here.
Request a Handshake Account
Handshake is the U’s career platform and includes thousands of employers, jobs, and internships. Additionally, students can find career-related programs and recruiting events relevant to their goals. Follow the directions below to request an account:
- Go to utah.joinhandshake.com
- In the upper right corner click "No Account? Sign-Up Here"
- Sign-up using your staff e-mail (ex. marola@sa.utah.edu)
- Confirm your email address and wait for approval
Co-Sponsor an Event or Program
Whether you have an existing program you are coordinating or you would like to partner on something new and unique, please reach out to us to start a collaboration. Please note:- Requests for collaboration must be submitted at least 4 weeks in advance of the preferred date for the program or event. The more lead-time you give us, the more likely we’ll be able to accommodate your request.
- During Career Fair Season (Fall: mid-September through early October; Spring: January through Early February), we have limited capacity for collaborative programming & events.
Add to Your Syllabus
We encourage faculty/staff to promote U Career Success as a resource in your syllabus. Please use this blurb in your syllabus: "The U Career Success Center is committed to equipping and empowering students with career development skills that will allow them to achieve their personal and professional goals. For more information about career resources, please visit the U Career Success Center (Garff building 1300), or careers.utah.edu." You can also include the Career Readiness Competencies (NACE, 2019) in your syllabus to help students identify and articulate the skills they develop through their coursework.
Internship Council
The Internship Council (IC) consists of staff and faculty from all across the University of Utah who are dedicated to creating internship opportunities and an internship culture across campus. We encourage faculty and staff to get involved with the Council in order to assist in the implementation of new internship initiatives across campus and in your departments.
Career Outcomes
Each year, U Career Success partners with Assessment, Evaluation, and Research to collect institutional data on graduates’ career outcomes. First Destination data are used in a variety of ways including university rankings and recruitment.
You can help ensure your college/department outcomes data are represented accurately by encouraging recent grads (within 6 months) to complete the First Destination Form, and by sharing any outcomes data you collect with us.
Support Your Students
Learn about the career resources & tools available to your students: