Career Services

Resources for your career success.

Our staff helps you understand your career-related interests, preferences, strengths, and values so you can explore your career or vocation. There are lots of ways to get support through networking with alumni and various organizations, attending workshops on resume writing, interview skills, LinkedIn profile development, and job search strategies.

Search job Opportunities

Loras College has partnered exclusively with College Central Network, a robust career platform that provides job seekers with employment opportunities and career development resources.

It features opportunities for part-time jobs, internships, and full-time employment, making the job search experience easier and more productive for you.

College Central Network
College Central Network Link

What is offered?

One-on-One

  • Career planning
  • Critiques of resumes and cover letters
  • LinkedIn profile development
  • Simulation interviews (for employment and admission to graduate and professional school)

Online

Online options for networking with employers, resume referral, and access to podcasts and reference materials on all dimensions of the job search process.

Workshops & Zoom Seminars

Offered various times throughout the year:

  • Internship and job search tactics
  • Writing resumes and cover letters
  • Effective interviewing
  • LinkedIn profile development
  • Make career fairs work for you.

Networking

  • LinkedIn Profile Development
  • Homecoming Alumni Career Insight Panels
  • Next Up Young Professionals of Dubuque Mentoring Program
  • Loras Alumni Mentoring Program (LAMP)

Graduate & Post Baccalaureate Planning

  • Help with researching various schools and programs.
  • Application assistance
  • Mock interviews
  • Assistance with resumes, interest letters, essays, etc.

Employer Connections

  • Support for employment recruiting: pass-by tables, employer information sessions (virtual), and on-campus interviews
  • Annual career fairs like the Area Collegiate Career Fairs conducted collaboratively with the Greater Dubuque Development Corporation and the IT Sector Board
  • CONNECT Iowa’s Engineering Virtual Interview Day and Finance, Accounting, Commerce, and Economics (FACE) Virtual Interview Day.