Career Engaged Learning Office
Career and Experiential Learning
MISSION
The mission of the Career Engaged Learning Office is to support the institution's academic programs by designing, implementing, and managing services and programs that meet the career and educational development and employment needs of the students.
Engaged Learning
The Career Engage Learning Office offers an array of professional services that will assist students with exploring, developing, and participating in experiences, that relate to each student’s unique educational and career goals. Students are encouraged to begin career planning early, and the Career Engaged Learning Office can guide you on strategies for how to become a marketable candidate in the workforce.
The Career Engaged Learning Office can assist with:
- Exploring careers and college majors
- Job and internship search
- Résumé and cover letter reviews
- Interview preparation
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- Contact the Career Advisor at (210) 486-5612.
- Stop by the CELO office in Brazos Student Union, room 125.
- Schedule an on-campus or virtual appointment by emailing: nlc-careers@alamo.edu.
- Attend virtual drop-in times. Visit this link for session times and Zoom link: Contact Us
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Brazos Student Union, Room 125
phone: (210) 486-5142
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- Focus 2: An online, career tool that helps to match careers based on your personality self-assessment. Create your profile today! Use the Northeast Lakeview College access code: nighthawks
- Explore majors based on self-assessment
- Research careers associated with specific majors
- Compare occupations
- Learn important industry data and facts
- Decide which career fields and majors are best for you
- Career Coach: A web-based tool that provides local data on wages, employment, job postings, and the associated education and training that can lead to your intended career.
- Create a professional résumé using the Build Your Resume feature
- Undecided? No worries, take the Career Assessment to discover occupations that interest you!
- Link majors to careers
- Action Plans
- Career Portfolio
- What Can I Do With This Major?
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Occupational Outlook Handbook guide includes career information for hundreds of occupations!
- O*Net Online: This site is the nation’s primary source for occupational information.
- Texas Reality Check: Use one of three methods to compare occupations, lifestyles, and salary goals to find recommended careers.
- Campus Resources
- TopResume: Career Advice
- Vault: Career, résumé, and interview guides, internship search, employer, and industry research.
- Educate To Career Salary Calculator
- NACE Competencies: Skills Employers Want
- Effective Résumé
- Career Coach Résumé Builder- Sign Up and Build Your Résumé
- Résumé Examples & Samples for Every Career
- Action verbs to include in your résumé
- Résumé action verbs, power words, adjectives, buzzwords
- 185 Powerful Action Verbs That Will Make Your Résumé Awesome
- Résumé Genius
- Business.com
- Live Career Résumé Samples
- Does Your Résumé Pass the 6-Second Test?
- Interviewing Skills
- Dress for Success
- Interview Tips: How to Make a Great Impression
- Mock Interviews: Email nlc-careers@alamo.edu to schedule your mock interview.
- Common Interview Questions
- Post Interview Thank You Letter
- Networking
- Begin building and maintaining your professional network by developing a LinkedIn account.
- Share your Personal Brand by building an elevator speech.
- Video Library
- Visit the NLC Office of Career Services & Job Placement YouTube
- Career Advice: Videos
- Purepost Knowledge Center Learn about interviewing, the power of networking, researching company culture, how to negotiate salary, etc.
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Handshake: Premiere job board for college students. Access on your ACES Student tab.
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AlamoEXPERIENCE: Access your ACES Student tab to discover events and other experiential student opportunities.
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Parker Dewey Micro-Internships: Connects students to micro-internships, short-term, paid projects, offered by real companies. Students can apply to work on entry-level tasks, from a remote setting. - Alamo Colleges District – Office of Workplace Learning: Offers several ways to enhance your education through paid, hands-on opportunities in San Antonio or across the globe through local and regional internships, federal internships, STEM Research, and internship workshops.
- City of San Antonio - Student Internship Program: Link theory to practice, gain real-world experience, and develop specialized skills while working in departments within the city’s organization.
- Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU): Find internship opportunities, available scholarships, and job search.
- Texas Internship Challenge: Find internship opportunities in a variety of industries all over Texas
- Internships.com: Identified by Forbes as a “Top 10 Career Website,” this site lets you search through over 70,000 openings by using keywords and location.
- WayUp: (Formerly InternMatch) Search for volunteer and paid internships by companies, cities, or categories. Sign up and create your profile to let recruiters find you.
- ZipRecruiter: An additional internship resource. Can search by degree, location, salary, etc.
- Idealist: Gain experience by participating in volunteer work in your community.
- Volunteer Match: Find volunteer opportunities.
- United Nations Volunteers: If you’re looking to take your online volunteering worldwide, this is the place to start. UNV connects you with organizations working for peace and development in need of skills like research, writing, art, and design. There are already over 12,000 volunteers from 187 countries lending their talents to organizations around the globe.
- Catchafire: This volunteer search tool is exclusively for online volunteer projects. Each one has a timeline that can range anywhere from an hour to a few weeks. So whether you have an afternoon or several, you can help not-for-profit with tasks like writing thank-you letters or editing photos.
- Smithsonian: The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, but even they could use a little help sometimes. Help make their collections more accessible by volunteering online to transcribe historical documents or edit Wikipedia articles related to their artifacts and research.
- Amnesty International Decoders: Operated by Amnesty International, this network of digital volunteers helps conduct research into global human rights violations. Volunteers have used their phones and computers to verify the location of oil spills, fin evidence of drone strikes, and flag abusive tweets to women politicians in India.
- Translators Without Borders: For those fluent in more than one language, check out this nonprofit that combines language skills with humanitarian aid. Volunteers provide translations (10 million words a year!) to international organizations that focus on crisis relief, health, and education.
- Zooniverse: A platform for people-powered research that literally wouldn’t be possible (or practical) without the help of online volunteers. Spend as much or as little time as you’d like identifying endangered animals, classifying galaxy systems, or transcribing Shakespearean manuscripts.
- Crisis Text Line: Here’s a perfect example of technology being used for good. Become a volunteer to help the Crisis Text Line continues to offer free, 24/7 support for those in crisis. If you’re at least 18 and can commit to volunteering four hours each week, you can apply to be trained for free.
- Points of Light: Help create a global culture of volunteerism. Points of Light encourages you to find a way to get involved by reviewing the world’s largest network of volunteer opportunities.
- DoSomething.org: DoSomething empowers young people to enact social change both online and off. Volunteer online through one of our campaigns to help solve real-world problems. DoSomething members have used the interview to successfully urge Apple to diversity their emojis, change the dictionary definition of "Black/black", and create the largest crowdsourced anti-bullying guide.
Thank you for working with Northeast Lakeview College. We are committed to assisting employers find talent to fill part-time, full-time, seasonal, and internship opportunities.
We welcome employer and community partnerships, to help build a pipeline, of skilled and educated talent for the North East San Antonio area and our surrounding municipalities.
To learn about additional partnership opportunities, please visit the Alamo Colleges District Employer Partnership web page, https://www.alamo.edu/about-us/employer-partnership-opportunities/.
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- Online Job Board: Northeast Lakeview College uses an online job board powered by Handshake to connect our Nighthawk Students with employer opportunities.
- Connect with students
- Post-employment/internship opportunities
- Register for our events
- How to Create Your Employer Handshake Account
- Click here to sign up
- Read the Employer Guidelines
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Handshake Employer Help Center-Handshake troubleshooting and FAQs
- Online Job Board: Northeast Lakeview College uses an online job board powered by Handshake to connect our Nighthawk Students with employer opportunities.
Additional Ways to Connect
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- Schedule an Informational Table
- Attend the Career Fair
- Host an Information Session
- Present to classes or student groups
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- Check-in: Please check in at the Welcome Center, located in the 1st floor of the Brazos Student Union (building 300).
About NLC: History of NLC, Fast Facts & Student Profile
Career Resources for Diverse Populations
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Diversity employment news, Job search, Employer directory, Diversity Villages by subgroup: African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American, Women, Native-American |
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Jobs with employers committed to diversity targeting new college graduates of diverse backgrounds, Job search, Employer directory, Access to virtual career fairs |
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Network of companies recruiting African-American professionals, Create searchable professional profile, Job search, Career events |
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Easy to use job search tool, Blog covering diversity employment issues |
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Online community, Blogs, Ask a Mentor, Career resources |
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Diversity employment news, Job search, Employer directory, Diversity Villages by subgroup: African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American, Women, Native-American |
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Information on education and job training, Getting Back to Work checklist, Career exploration, Job readiness resources, Job search *Sponsored by Department of Labor |
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Extensive list of companies that hire individuals with a felony record |
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Job postings for people with a felony record, Resources on accessing housing, Connect with re-entry programs, Blog |
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Extensive list of resources related to employment, housing and education, Legal information, Re-entry program directory |
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A comprehensive list of employers that hire felons with links to the company webpages. |
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Handbook |
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Re-entry resources listed by state including employment, housing, and family reunification *Sponsored by Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance |
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Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement
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Job search, Webinars on career topics, Career fairs, Leadership programs for college students and women |
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iHispano: Jobs and Careers for Latino Professionals
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Network of companies recruiting Hispanic and Latinx professionals, Create searchable professional profile, Job search, Career events |
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Hispanic/Latino Professionals Association
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Job search tool with partnerships with prestigious companies, Job fairs, Employer directory |
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Diversity employment news, Job search, Employer directory, Diversity Villages by subgroup: African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American, Women, Native-American |
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Job search tool, Post resume, Career advice |
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Job search, Career Events, List of companies committed to diverse hiring |
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Professional Organizations |
Research companies who are committed to equality for LGBTQIA+ people |
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Professional Organizations |
Know your rights information by topic and location |
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Professional Organizations |
Networking, Career-building educational programming, Job board |
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Information and resources related to LGBTQ rights at work and economic issues, Guide to discussing LGBTQ issues |
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Professional Organizations |
Company search of LGBTQ friendly companies |
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Job search, User can upload their resume for job recruiters |
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Job search, User can upload their resume for job recruiters |
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Jobs specifically posted to site by employers, Build a resume, Post a resume, Blog, Marketable skills courses |
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Job postings of inclusive employers looking to hire veterans with disabilities |
- Purepost for Active Duty and Veteran Students: Provides a skills assessment based on your military training and work experience, while also creating a fully translated, civilian résumé, and online profile. Register today to showcase your education while building upon the valuable foundation of your skills and work experience gained from your military service.
- A skills assessment showing 30+ in-demand skills for each of your military positions.
- Translated job titles and duties that help employers understand the value of your military background
- Online profile and downloadable PDF resume
- Online collaboration with Career Services professionals
- Military to Civilian Occupation Translator: Match military skills and experience to civilian occupations.
- Recruit Military
- Texas Veterans Commission
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E)
- Veterans' Employment & Training Services (VETS)
- G.I. Jobs
- USAJOBS: Connects job seekers with federal employment opportunities across the U.S.
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Job search site for professional women |
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Job and internship search |
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Job search, Networking opportunities, Employer database with company reviews by women, Articles and podcasts, Access to webinars, hiring events |
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Job bank for marketing, media, and tech jobs, Networking and training opportunities, Mentoring program, Library of webinars |
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Career tips and resources for women working in finance, professional services, Tech and Law |
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Fashion and lifestyle blog for professional women |
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Career and job-search advice, Resume and cover letter templates, Connect with professional organizations, Job board |
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Diversity employment news, Job search, Employer directory, Diversity Villages by subgroup: African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American, Women, Native-American |