CAREER COACH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Career Coaching
After Thanksgiving, our Career Coaches will still available to help you with resume reviews, mock interviews, cover letter conversation, general discussions about your future career plans, and much more. Schedule a meeting in-person or virtual by clicking HERE.
Career Coaching Modules
Have you been wanting to get a resume updated, start looking for internships/jobs, or start the process of applying to graduate school? Take advantage of the Thanksgiving break and check out the Canvas modules linked below to help get you started on taking a step forward with your future career plans. https://canvas.unl.edu/courses/120878
Experiential Learning Survey
Have you had an internship/co-op, volunteer, research, or career-related experience this summer or fall? UNL wants to hear about it! Sharing your experience takes less than 3 minutes and the info you provide helps other students learn about opportunities, impacts UNL's accreditation and academic rankings, and influences the future value of the degree you're working hard for now.
Share your experience here: https://go.unl.edu/experiencesurvey.
Gaining Experience
Nebraska Appleseed Internship
Deadline for Spring Semester: November 22nd at 9 am
• Paid part-time internships averaging 10 hours per week
• Interns get hands-on experience addressing the most relevant and current public interest issues by assisting with research, advocacy work, and community outreach. Nebraska Appleseed is regularly looking for passionate interns for each semester: fall, spring, summer.
• Nebraska Appleseed is dedicated to improving the lives of all Nebraskans through public policy, community support and education, and grassroots organizing efforts. We do this with the help of our dedicated interns.
• Nebraska Appleseed interns may work to:
o Advance compassionate policy and laws for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Temporary Protected Status (TPS) residents, and our immigrant communities.
o Promote access to basic needs such as housing and food nutrition services and programs.
o Educate Nebraskans on the importance of democracy, civic engagement, and voting.
o Learn about the specifics in the area of nonprofit management such as fundraising, expenditure management, managing office logistics, and more.
• Internship details:
o Interns can work on cutting-edge policy, research, and community outreach.
o Interns work no more than 10 hours per week and are paid at $15 per hour.
o Interns are able to work flexible hours; however, it is expected that interns work with their manager to establish a predictable schedule.
o Depending on the intern's educational institution, they may be able to use their experience for college or university credit.
Rural Fellows Program
• Rural Fellows is a unique program designed to connect college students to rural Nebraska communities. Student pairs move into the rural community, for a 10-week period during the summer, to complete community-identified projects. Past projects have ranged from economic development, workforce development, tourism, community planning, education, mental health, and much more. We are excited that you are interested in participating as a host community during the summer of 2022. Please complete the following application to help us know about your interested projects and potential students.
• Application Deadline: January 2022
• Application: https://ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6Sw4hbbRroVED7U
Project Horseshoe Farm
• Project Horseshoe Farm offers Community Health Fellowship programs in Alabama and California. Alumni consistently express how transformative their Fellowship experience has been, and Fellows go to some of the top medical schools, graduate programs, and nonprofit organizations across the U.S.
• This upcoming year, HSF is offering our traditional Gap-Year Fellowship, which will begin June of 2022 and finish July of 2023 at the Greensboro, Marion, and Pomona sites. For applicants who are available and interested, we are also offering a 6-month Fellowship opportunity in Greensboro from January through July of 2022. It will be shorter, but similar in experience to the full year Fellowship.
• Application Deadline Fellowship: February 13th, 2022
Pre-Law
Upcoming Professional School Visitors: UNL College of Law: IN PERSON
Thursday, December 2, 1:00 PM- 4:00 PM
• Sign up to meet with a Professional School Visit: https://exploreregistration.unl.edu/
• More information on Professional School Visits: https://exploreregistration.unl.edu/lib/documents/ProfessionalSchoolVisitGuide.pdf
Online/Virtual Career Events
• LGBTQ+ at Arup hosted by Arup
• Special agent (Women in Cyber) Info Session hosted by the FBI
• Fast Enterprises Information Session hosted by Fast Enterprises
HANDSHAKE JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS
Texas Water Development Board - 22-25 Field Hydrologist (Hydrologist II)
OTHER JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS
Curecanti National Recreation Area and Valles Caldera National Preserve - Hydrologic Technician
Lower Colorado Basin, Boulder Canyon Operations Office, Operations Support, Blythe Hydrographic Team - Hydrologic Technician (Recent Graduate)
Sandia National Laboratories - Intern - Future of Research for Climate, Earth, and Energy (FORCEE) - Climate Science and National Security - Technical Undergraduate Summer
Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Summer Internship Opportunity
Kinetic Analysis Corporation - Operational Meteorologist
Other Job and Internship Resources
US Government Jobs - USAJOBS
American Meteorological Society - Career Center Job Board
PennState Dept of Meteorology - All Job Listings
Oklahoma School of Meteorology - All Job Listings
The American Geophysical Union - AGU Pathfinder Career Center
The Association for Women Geoscientists - AWG Job Board
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) - Opportunity Catalog