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Summer enrichment opportunities sent to MCB
Types of career opportunities for MCB graduates Visit Handshake @ Illinois
Handshake is the campus-wide recruiting platform where students can find jobs and internships, upcoming career fairs, on-campus recruiting events, networking opportunities, and a calendar of events.
Resources from the Career Center
Tips on searching for a job or internship
Participate in a mock interview
Resume and Personal Statement Reviews
Tips for writing and formatting your resume
Tips for writing your cover letter
Tips for writing your personal statement
Free professional headshots
3:30-5 p.m. Mondays
9-10:30 a.m. Thursdays
Room 355 Illini Union
A great headshot ensures you’re making the best impression possible. The Career Center and Illini Union are excited to announce the Professional Portrait Lab, free student professional digital headshots that you can use on LinkedIn, Twitter, websites, directories, etc.
Campus career fairs
Career and internship fairs hosted on campus provide the opportunity for students to network and find internships and jobs. Fairs are also a great way to explore careers and different employment sectors.
As a student in the College of LAS, you are welcome at all career and internship fairs on campus. Students are encouraged to attend LAS preparation workshops or Career Center workshops available before some fairs. These workshops help students know what to expect and how to get the most out of the experience.
Upcoming career fairs
Past career fairs
| ACES + LAS Career Fair (virtual event) | TBD |
| ACES + LAS Career Fair (in-person event) | Sept 26 |
| Illinois Career and Internship Fair | March 27 |
| Education Professionals' Career Fair | Feb 29 |
| MWACE DE&I Virtual Career Fair | Feb 28 |
| Grainger College of Engineering Career Fair (virtual) | Feb 28 |
| Illinois Green Career Forum | Feb 27 |
| Research Park Career Fair | Feb 26 |
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Mentorship and advice from professionals
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Mentorship and advice from professionals
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The School of MCB Career Mentorship Program brings together physicians, dentists, researchers, and other professionals, many of them alumni, and matches them with motivated students.
School of MCB Career Connections is a virtual series featuring clinicians, R&D specialists, and more. In these one-hour sessions professionals share insights with students about their career path and welcome questions from SMCB students.
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MCB Advising
Visit MCB Advising mediaspace channel.
MCB Advising hosts several workshops and career talks throughout the year.
External websites with job listings and resources
BioSpace is a digital hub for news and careers related to life sciences. Their Jobs page is a good single source for positions in the biological sciences.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has lots of valuable data that can be used when investigating careers. The various professional societies pertinent to biologists can be found on the site via a simple search. The following is an incomplete list of the societies.
JobScan Get past resume robots. Ninety percent of large companies use applicant tracking systems to search for qualified candidates from large applicant pools. These systems help employers by analyzing resumes and CVs, surfacing candidates that best match the position and filtering out those who don't. JobScan has researched the top systems used by thousands of companies and built an algorithm based on the common patterns among them.
National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has recently updated their Career Readiness Competencies.
The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is a free online database that contains hundreds of occupational definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses, and workforce development professionals to understand today's world of work in the United States.