Career Development

Career services for graduate students are provided by a network of offices and resources across campus and online. 

• The Graduate School assists current Ph.D. and master's students who are seeing non-academic careers through confidential career counseling, workshops, online subscription resources, and newsletters. 
• Cornell Career Services offers offices across campus to help students through counseling, workshops, job posting services, and other services.  Colleges and professional programs offer additional resources.
• The Office of Postdoctoral Studies provides resources for current postdoctoral fellows.
• The Versatile PhD is a new career resource for graduate students in the arts & humanities and social sciences who are considering non-academic careers.  This free and confidential web-based community is available to all Cornell graduate students.

Career Contacts

The Graduate School
325 Caldwell Hall
Individual counseling by appointment Wednesdays noon to 5 p.m.
607.255.5184
Cornell CareerNet: www.career.cornell.edu/cuTRAK.html

• Cornell Career Services provides updated information on job search basics, how to conduct effective job searches, and how to build a résumé, write cover letters, and more.
• CornellTRAK is an online listing used for posting jobs, student résumés and career interest profiles, and alumni mentor information specifically for Cornellians. Additional job-search resources are available at the site. Join on the lower right hand corner of Cornell career services Web site
• Interfolio Credential Service provides links and information on the service Cornell authorizes to support students in their long-term job searches
• University Career Center Library, located in 103 Barnes Hall, offers a one-stop reference center for materials on job-search techniques and strategies, career information, graduate study abroad, international and domestic job bulletins, fellowships, and internships; employer directories; and corporate and nonprofit organization literature; also has Bear Access kiosks.

College and Grad Program Specific Career Advising:

Professional master's (MBA, LAW, DVM/VET, MILR,  MENG, MPH, MMH and CIPA students) are served through their professional master's program career advisers:

• CIPA
• MILR
• MENG
• Sloan Program MPH
• Vet (DVM) 
• Law 
• MBA/JGSM

Ph.D. and master's students in fields closely aligned with undergraduate colleges and departments may also be served through those college career service offices:

Agriculture and Life Sciences
www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/current/career
Roberts Hall
607.255.2215

Architecture, Art, and Planning
www.aap.cornell.edu/aap/student-services/careers/students
240 East Sibley Hall
607.255.7696

Engineering
eng-as-web.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/engineering-coop-career-services/
201 Carpenter Hall
607.255.5006

Hotel Administration
180 Statler Hall
607.255.6376

Human Ecology
172 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
607.255.2988

Industrial and Labor Relations
201 Ives Hall
607.255.7816