Your Career Starts Here — And We’re With You Every Step of the Way
Whether you're a current student exploring career paths or an alum navigating your next move, UNCP’s Career Center is here to support your goals. From personalized appointments and résumé reviews to mock interviews, internship guidance, job searches and experiential learning opportunities — we’re your partner in professional success. Let’s build your future, together.
Handshake is the online career management system provided to all UNCP undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni FREE of charge. You can use Handshake to search for on-campus jobs, internships, part-time and full-time positions, upcoming events, and resources.
You can also schedule appointments to meet with Career Center staff members for major and career exploration, resumes, cover letters, interview assistance, graduate school assistance, internship, and job search.
All current students have a pre-established account. To access your account- select The University of North Carolina at Pembroke Login. You can use the Student Intro guide to Handshake to assist with updating your profile and searching for positions. If you need further assistance, check out the Handshake Help Center!
Big Interview is a software program that provides FREE, online interview practice for UNCP students and registered alumni. With Big Interview users will be able to: learn helpful interview strategies from video lessons and practice tough interview questions with the ability to record review, and share answers.
New Users should select "Get Started" in the upper right-hand corner to create their account. This a FREE resource for those registering accounts with a UNCP email address. Those registering will be prompted to select UNCP as their affiliate program when registering their accounts to waive any fees.
Focus2 is available to all UNCP students, alumni, and faculty/staff to help identify your interests, personality, values, and skills and how these attributes are compatible with different areas of study and occupations. You can use Focus2 to develop your career plan, explore majors, and learn about different occupations.
What Can I Do With This Major whether you are exploring multiple majors or searching for information about your chosen field, this site will help you connect majors to careers. Learn about the typical career areas and the types of employers that hire people with each major, as well as strategies to make you a more marketable candidate. Continue your research on majors and careers through the websites provided in the Links section.
This guide is provided for your convenience but is not meant to replace individual career coaching services. Please use the guide to answer your basic questions, resume guides, or other templates. We encourage you to follow up with a coach to meet your individual career development needs.
The Career Center offers job search assistance to current students, upcoming graduates and alumni by facilitating connections with employers and teaching individuals how to conduct effective job searches.
The following resources can help with your job search research:
Tutor.com: gain access via Canvas with your UNCP email.
LinkedIn: Join the more than 13,000 UNC Pembroke alumni on LinkedIn at UNC Pembroke and find out where your alumni are working now, after all, 94% of recruiters use LinkedIn to find candidates. Let us show you how to create a professionally engaging profile and harness the power of LinkedIn to find jobs and internships and connect with 467 million members worldwide.
It is very important for you to educate yourself about potential scams. These are some common signs that a job is most likely fraudulent:
If you suspect a position is fraudulent, please contact the Career Center. If you believe you are the victim of fraud resulting from a job listing, please contact the local police as well.
Read more about scams:
Research job duties, tasks, education requirements, salary, wages, and job outlook using these resources
Note: The database EXCLUDES information for graduates who are:
Students who complete internships often land jobs faster — and with more offers — than those who don’t.
Build your resume, grow your network and gain confidence through high-quality, paid internship opportunities that prepare you for what’s next.
If graduate school is in your future, our career services team can help you prepare now, including developing your curriculum vitae, reviewing your graduate school application essay and providing a mock school interview. Generally, it is a good idea to begin planning for graduate school at least a year in advance.
Our Graduate School Planning Guide will lead you through the decision-making and application
process:
UNCP Graduate Planning Guide
UNCP Sample Grad School Interview Questions
Peterson's College Search Guide
GradSchools.com
