Boston University - Office of Career Services - About Us

Note: each of these services is covered in more detail in the corresponding sections of this site.

Career counselors are available for one-hour appointments to discuss your career-related questions. Stop by the office or call 617-353-3590 to schedule an appointment.

Do you have a quick question, or do you want a quick resume review? Stop in any day between noon and 4 p.m. for a first-come, first-served 15-minute session with a staff person on duty.

Our counselors utilize a variety of formal and informal assessments to help you in choosing a career direction or in making other career-related decisions. A counselor can help you decide what assessments are right for you. You can also take an on-line assessment on your own by going to Typefocus.

The CEG is a 5-week in-depth group workshop, led by two of our counselors, to enable students to learn more about their own personal styles and work preferences, the wide variety of options available in the world of work, and techniques for making and implementing career and job-search plans. There is a small materials fee for the career testing. The CEG is held once per semester; call 617-353-3590 for information on the next available group.

Located in our offices on the 3rd floor of 19 Deerfield Street, the Career Resource Library contains information and resources to help you learn about various career fields and the job search process, and also contains hard-copy job and internship listings in binders. Come visit to see all that we have! On-line Job Postings: Use BU CareerLink to access jobs and internships posted for BU students. (Note: these listings will be different from those posted in hard-copy.)

Each semester, our Recruiting Office brings employers to our campus to interview students for jobs. If you will be graduating within the next nine months, you can start interviewing now. Go to BU CareerLink for listings.

Employers often visit our campus to speak with students in small groups. Sometimes the sessions are planned for students participating in on-campus recruiting, but any BU student is welcome to attend. If you are just beginning to think about a career direction, or just starting your job search, consider coming to information sessions. Look on our website for upcoming sessions.

We hold two career fairs per year; one in the fall and one in the spring. Employer lists are always available on our website prior to each event.

The Office of Career Services and the Boston College Career Center co-sponsor a Virtual Graduate School Fair during the months of October and March each year. If you are a Graduate School representative, click here for more information.

A list of registered programs will be available on our home page throughout these months. This can be a great chance to explore possibilities and learn about new programs.

From time to time, our office either sponsors or hosts other special career-related events of interest to students. All events will be announced on our web site, so please visit our home page regularly.

E-mail lists are available for a variety of special topic areas, as well as by class year. These can be a great way to make sure you know about special events and other opportunities offered by our office. (Note: we do not send notices about specific recruiting opportunities or employers visits.) To find out more about these e-mail lists, please see our home page.

The Career Advisory Network, operated and maintained by the BU Alumni Office, allows current students to contact BU alumni who have volunteered to speak with students about their careers. (Note: CAN is for informational/networking purposes only; please do not use CAN to ask for a job.) Please access CAN through the BU Alumni website, www.bu.edu/alumni.

Our office provides a Credentials Service (also referred to as a Dossier service) for students and alumni who wish to open and maintain a permanent reference file. Learn more about this service in the Credentials section of this website.

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