Our career coaching team has developed all of the tools needed to support students in building effective skills to identify and pursue their career goals. Students can use the guides and resources below to begin developing career skills and then utilize our Career Lab and coaching for assistance in translating their knowledge into actionable steps.
Promoting Skill Development
Career Portfolios
CCPD has created career portfolios which are each uniquely designed to support our undergraduate, graduate and recent alumni (within two years of graduation) populations in their career planning. Each of our career portfolios help individuals to identify career action steps, connect to career resources/support, and track progress towards reaching their career goals. Undergraduates can access the Undergraduate Career Portfolio at go.lehigh.edu/careerportfolio and graduate students can access the Graduate Career Portfolio at go.lehigh.edu/gradcareerportfolio to make their own copy to advance their career path. The Alumni Career Portfolio can be accessed through Lehigh Connects under the resources tab.
Career Management Seminar
The Career Management Seminar is designed to teach graduate students key career management skills needed to effectively conduct an internship or job search.. Graduate students are enrolled in the Seminar at the request of faculty as a course project or department initiative during the Fall or Spring semesters. This self-paced program is completed in Course Site, and the completion time is estimated to be between 5 1⁄2 to 7 1⁄2 hours. Learning modules with assigned activities focus on key topics including exploring career options, building your professional network, preparing for an internship or job search, interviewing for success, and evaluating/negotiating a job offer. Contact Ali Erk, Associate Director of Graduate Student Career Development, at alison.erk@lehigh.edu with faculty requests.
Career Guides
Our Career Resource Library contains guides for resumes, CVs, cover letters, networking, internship and job search strategy, interviewing, salary and job offer negotiation and more.
Hire Lehigh YouTube Channel
Our YouTube channel is filled with career-related videos on a range of topics covering career skills, insights from employer partners, and tips from students on professional development.
Hire Lehigh Blog
As students think about their future, our career blog has many articles and inspiration on career exploration, internships and jobs, networking, interviewing and more! The Hire Lehigh blog features content from guest bloggers including alumni, students, and employer partners in addition to articles written by the CCPD team.
The Big Interview
The Big Interview is a step by step interview training platform with AI-based feedback for resume and interview preparation. Students may develop their interview responses and practice common as well as field specific questions. There are over 140 video lessons on a variety of topics related to launching an effective internship or job search.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning offers over 12,000 courses to explore and 5,000 video tutorials from industry experts and leaders. These can be accessed on a variety of devices to help students expand their business, software, technology, creative, leadership, communication skills and more.
Developing Connections and Experience
Handshake
Lehigh's job posting and recruiting platform, Handshake, is available to all undergraduate and graduate students. New opportunities including internships, fellowships, full and part-time positions, and postdocs are posted daily by long-term employer partners and alumni who select to advertise their positions to Lehigh. Students can customize their search for opportunities in a range of industries and connect to employers. Additionally, students can access resources, career support, and events through the Handshake platform. Handshake serves as the primary CRM tool for students and employer partners by managing the University Career Expos and events, data and analytics for student and employer engagement, the career resources library and the First Destination Survey collection and reports.
Lehigh Connects
Students can join the Lehigh Connects community to browse thousands of alumni profiles to network with a professional in a position, company, or industry of interest. Lehigh Connects offers the opportunity to explore career paths and tap into mentoring insights by topic using a variety of filters. Faculty and staff can join the Lehigh Connects community too!
Interstride
Interstride is the latest technology solution that addresses many challenges faced by international students. This platform allows students to search for U.S jobs by sponsorship data, pursue a global job search, gather country insights, access specialized career resources, and network with others in Lehigh’s international and globally-minded community.