Resource Library
What Can I Do With This Major?
What Can I Do With This Major? will assist in identifying potential career paths associated with your academic interests by linking majors to various professions. With over 100 major profiles, it offers insights into common career paths, the kinds of employers active in each field, and strategies for optimizing your job prospects. Additionally, it provides links to professional organizations, outlook data for occupations, and job hunting tools. Whether you're considering several majors or seeking guidance within your chosen discipline, this platform facilitates a targeted job hunt tailored to your specific major.
What Can I Do With This Major?
Forage - Virtual Job Simulations
Forage is an online platform designed for students looking to gain practical experience through company-endorsed job simulations. Through these "job sims" you will experience real day-to-day work of professionals in the field through projects crafted by the company. The platform will help you explore career paths, obtain relevant experience, learn new skills, strengthen your resume, and gain first-hand exposure to top employers.
Forage - Virtual Job Simulations
Vault
Vault is a comprehensive career resource that includes industry and profession overviews; rankings and profiles for employers and internship programs; career articles, blogs and videos; sample resumes and cover letters; and an online library.
- Job Search Articles for International Students: Click Blog > Get the Job > International
Handshake
Handshake is the Career and Professional Development Center’s primary system for online recruiting, accessing employer profiles, and job/internship postings. In addition, you can register for and access professional development workshops, networking events, career fairs, and interview sessions.
ResumeAI
ResumeAI by Big Interview is a powerful tool designed to enhance your resume and increase your chances of landing that dream job. Think of it as your personal professional resume reviewer, giving you feedback instantaneously! Most companies use AI for recruitment, so why not leverage the same technology?
- ResumeAI evaluates your resume based on key criteria
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- Readability: The Readability evaluator uses AI to assess contact information, key sections, spelling, and proper use of pronouns.
- Credibility: When employers read a resume, they look for critical keywords to determine if your background is a good fit for the position. It evaluates your education and experience sections and provides feedback and suggestions for skills relevant to your degree as well as skills and competencies commonly required for jobs in your field. This way, your resume shows not just what you did, but how well you did it.
- Format: There are some unspoken rules in resume formatting. Some creativity is allowed, but if your resume is too far off, it might get rejected. Resume AI FORMAT checker looks at your font, margins, bullet point format, date format and length. You get suggestions for how to make your resume look professional and easy to skim.
- ATS Fit evaluates how well your resume matches the job description including job title, education, experience level, keyword, skills and competencies. The AI feature shows where you're a match and also offers specific suggestions for improvement for where you aren't!
- Resume AI helps you pinpoint what to add or remove from your resume to make sure it bypasses the ATS bots and gets seen by an employer. ATS FIT evaluates how well your resume matches the job.. It evaluates how it matches with keywords, skills, and competencies required by the prospective company.
Big Interview
Big Interview is an online system that combines training and practice to help improve your interview technique and build your confidence. The system includes a mock interview practice and recording tool as well as an AI feature that provides immediate feedback and a personalized action plan. Video training is also provided for Resume, Job Search/Networking, Negotiation, and the First 90 Days on the job.
- The Interview Playbooks section features video lessons for the following:
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- New Graduate
- ESL/English as Second Language
- Military Transition
- Disabilities
- Neurodiversity
- LGBTQ+
- Introvert/Too Modest
- Internal Interview
- Career Change
- Resume/CV Gap
Career Quick Tips
Quick Tips are concise reference sheets that help you locate resources related to a specific career topic. Whether you are a first-year student or a senior, Quick Tips will help you develop the professional skills necessary to become a contributing member of the workplace, community and world. If you need a quick answer to a “How do I…?” These tip sheets are perfect for you.
Pittsburgh Business Times
A free subscription for the Pittsburgh Business Times is available through the RMU Library. Students may register for a free account using their RMU email address. The Pittsburgh Business Times provides access to the latest news about Pittsburgh businesses, Best Places to Work rankings, the Book of Lists, and more! The Book of Lists features listings of the hottest area companies by field and ranking and is a great resource to research companies and organizations in Pittsburgh.
- Access the Book of Lists:
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- On the Pittsburgh Business Times home page, click "Lists & Leads" on the top menu bar
- On the left-hand side of the page, click the blue button, "See all Lists >"
- Select a category under "Pittsburgh Lists by Category" (on the right side of the page) or review all available lists by scrolling through each page
- Pittsburgh Lists by Category:
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- Banking and Finance
- Computers and Technology
- Energy and Environment
- General Business
- Government and Non-profits
- Health Care and Medical
- Industrial and Manufacturing
- Media and Communications
- Employers and Who's Who (Largest Pittsburgh-area Minority-owned Firms, Pittsburgh-area Women-owned Firms, Best Places to Work, Largest Pittsburgh-area Veteran-owned Firms)
- Real Estate and Construction
- Retailers and Retail Centers
- Schools and Education
- Travel and Tourism