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Position yourself for career success. Find online resources covering everything from resume writing and interviewing tips to salary negotiation, managing a career transition, and more.

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Career Coaching

Alumni Career & Professional Development provides alumni with career resources for life, including career coaching, career assessments, networking opportunities, identification of career coaches, career development workshops and events, and referrals for individual career coaching.  

The Center for Career Development provides career advising to recent graduates for the first 2 years after graduation. Services to young alumni include individual career advising (in person or by phone), self-assessment, resumé review, and assistance in developing job search strategies. Please email Career Development if you would like to arrange a consultation.

Virtual Workshops & Webinars

Virtual Alumni Career & Professional Development workshops offer alumni the opportunity to engage with fellow graduates from the comfort of their own home or workplace.

Visit the Alumni Events Calendar for the dates of upcoming sessions.

Online Career Resource Library

Visit the Alumni Career Webinars page to learn about upcoming webinars and access previous recordings

Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment
VIA Character Strengths (Free)
16 Personalities(similar to MBTI; free online version)
Jung Typology test(similar to MBTI; free online version)
Life Values Inventory
Self-Directed Search(determine three "types" that best fit you, receive a list of careers that tend to fit people with a mix of those types; paid)
My Next Move O*NET Interests Profiler(uses method similar to Self-Directed Search to identify where your career interest lie; free)
The Big Five Personality Test (learn more about how you work and relate to others; free)

College of the Holy Cross Alumni LinkedIn Group
Jobscan (Contact Alumni Career & Professional Development for a free membership)
Back to Business  (information on a range of career transition situations)
Career Cornerstone Center (career options for more 185 STEM degree fields)
Career Path International (career and international education consulting)
ClearlyNext (coach-supported career program)
Creative Circle  (advertising, marketing, creative digital and interactive freelance and full-time positions)
Ellevate Network (global professional women's network)
EOP Diversity and Inclusion Career Center 
Glassdoor (jobs and recruiting website)
Health Career Center  
Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
Idealist (volunteer & non-profit job search website)
The Ladders (online job search service)
Life Reimagined (career transition/re-invention)
LiveCareer  (online career guide)
The Muse (career finder and guidance)
Occupational Outlook Handbook
O*NET (occupational information and labor market research)
Whomi (free self-paced career development tool)
ZipRecruiter (job search)

Questions?

Contact Alumni Career & Professional Development at alumnicareers@holycross.edu or 508-793-2418.