Partner with the Career Development Center: Our services are designed to assist our students, campus partners, and faculty in your teaching and advising roles.
Request a Presentation: If you would like to schedule a guest speaker for your class, we can help! Common presentation topics include Career Center Overview, Resume Writing & Cover Letters, Interviewing, Networking, What Employers are Looking For and other topics customized for your class.
Report Career Outcomes: We want to capture the success stories of alums, capturing them well in the FDS and CDC Outcomes Reports. Learn more about the outcomes initiative as well as how the employment data that you provide supports Emerson College and its mission here.
Most Recent Outcome Report: Click Here
Guide to Working with Employers
We invite you to explore our employer page to learn more about job postings, events, and other resources!
Some examples of programming we work with Employers on:
Workshops for students, site visits, in-classroom presentations, Career Cafes, Industry Nights, Career Fair. We have in-person and online programming options depending on the location and availability of the employer.
Have an employer you want to connect us with?
Email Linh Nguyen and Lorelei Riseman, our Employer Engagement team, or fill out this form to submit their information to us. We use Handshake as our primary recruiting management platform.
A Guide to Working with Employers – Handshake: We encourage students and employers to use the Handshake platform. Students use it to access job and internship opportunities including on-campus recruiting activities such as interviews, career events, and employer information. Employers use this platform to post jobs and internships, register for upcoming career events and explore candidate profiles.
Campus partners can share this information encouraging employers to utilize Handshake with the Employer Engagement Team to help develop a recruitment plan. Whether they are just getting started by posting jobs or internships to Handshake or are ready to take their recruiting to the next level, we’re here to help. Campus partners can encourage students to create their Handshake profile if they haven’t already.
Need to Help a Student Schedule a Career Advising Appointment?
This is done through Handshake as well! Click here to find the link where the student can make their appointment.
We are located on the 6th floor of the Union Bank Building 216 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02116. Our Career Counselors can meet with students to discuss a variety of topics such as Interview Prep, Career Path Guidance, Resume & Cover Letter Review, International Student Counseling, Graduate Student Counseling.
We also offer students Online Resume Review where they can submit their resumes electronically and receive feedback via email. The typical turnaround time for a resume to be reviewed is 1-2 business days.
Legal/Ethical Standards
We encourage you to review ethical and legal standards in student hiring. To help campus partners understand the standards in student hiring as defined by employer law, the National Association of Colleges and Employers has prepared a Faculty Guide to Ethical and Legal Standards in Student Hiring.
Candidate Referrals
Employers may contact you to request the names of students who would be good candidates for job opportunities. There are some potential legal and ethical guidelines to consider.
Suggested Action: If you receive a request for student referrals, you could notify students who have declared an interest in such positions and encourage them to apply. For your protection, as well as that of the college, the initial request from the employer should be sent to the Career Development Center Employer Engagement team so that the position can be posted openly for all qualified candidates.
There are practical reasons for these actions:
- When you provide only a few names without also broadly publicizing the position through the Career Development Center, you are not maintaining “a fair and equitable recruiting process” and are vulnerable to charges of discrimination.
- There is a difference between providing the names of students who excelled in a job-related class and restricting awareness of an opportunity to just a few. Every qualified candidate interested in the opportunity should be able to apply; it is the employer’s responsibility to decide who would be the best fit for the bona fide qualifications.
- Students who receive regular announcements about job openings from faculty and/or campus partners may think the announcements represent all of the current opportunities for their major. Students may miss employers that conduct on-campus interviews, receive resume referrals, and post their positions to Handshake through the Career Development Center.
Information is taken from a Faculty Guide to Ethical and Legal Standards in Student Hiring, NACE
Another key benefit of posting opportunities to Handshake is all postings undergo a vetting approval process to ensure appropriate postings are not shared with Emerson students. We appreciate your assistance in assuring an employment process that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all qualified students.
Please find our Staff Roles & Bios here for a detailed overview of each team member of the Career Development Center and guidance on who to reach out to for specific information.
For any additional questions, please reach out to careers@emerson.edu
Faculty: Working with Career Advisors Examples
Faculty interested in bringing career-centric education into the classroom? Here are several examples for in-class, whole program, homework, online, and asynchronous examples. Linked are guides and resources to jumpstart education. The Career Development Center supports you every step of the way, please reach out for more information.
If you would like a representative from the CDC to present in your class, please submit your request using the following form – Request Form
In-Class Presentations & Workshops Presentations Examples
- Intro to CDC
- Career Action Plans
- How to market yourself & your work
In-Class Activities & Workshops Examples
- Interview practice activities
- Career case studies
- Clifton StrengthFinder Activities (for Graduate Students)
- How To: Negotiate Salary
- Quiz: Debunking Resume Myths
Class Homework Examples
- Conduct an informational interview or career conversation
- Attend an industry-related event outside of Emerson within the month or semester
Whole Program Presentations & Workshops Presentations Examples
- Intro to CDC
- Tips for job search strategies specific to your program
- Debunking resume writing myths
- How To: Internships
- Alumni Panel
Workshops & Projects Examples
- Build professional material (portfolio, LinkedIn, etc.) and get it reviewed by a peer, a professor, and a career advisor (and/or an industry professional)
- Bring in employers or alumni for workshops