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The resources below can help you put into practice what you’ve discovered about yourself and your career fields of interest. Articulate your knowledge, skills, and interests in written, verbal, and digital formats. Learn from others and seek opportunities that align with your identities and values.
- Job & Internship Search
- Elevator Pitch
- Resumes
- Cover Letters
- Job Search Emails
- Interviewing
- Negotiating
Job & Internship Search
- What You Need to Know About Recruitment Timelines
- Action Plan: Organize Your Job and Internship Search
- Job and Internship Search Organizer
- How to Set Clear Career Goals (S.M.A.R.T)
Job Search Listings
Check out our Experience page for Job Search Listings
- General
- Population-Specific: PhDs/Postdocs, International Students & Frosh/Soph
- Industry-Specific
Elevator Pitch
Resumes
- What Kind of “Opportunities” Count as Experience on your Resume
- Steps to Writing Your Resume
- Action Verb List
- ATS Resume
- Resume Review Checklist
- AI Prompts to Write Your Resume
Resume How-To Videos
Resume Samples and Templates
- Easy, Editable Resume Template
- Resume Sample 1
- Resume Sample 2
- Resume Sample 3
- Resume Sample 4
- Resume Sample 5
- Resume Sample 6
- Resume Sample 7
- Student Athlete Resume Tips and Example
- Career Guide for PhDs and Postdocs (CV samples begin on page 41)
Cover Letters
- Cover Letter Template
- Cover Letter Worksheet
- Cover Letter Review Checklist
- Career Guide for PhDs and Postdocs
- AI Prompts To Write Your Cover Letter
Cover Letter Samples and Templates
Job Search Emails
- How to Email Research Faculty
- Writing a Letter of Interest (Cold Email)
- Requesting a Professional Reference
Interviewing
- How to Prepare for an Interview
- 10 Types of Interviews (And How to Ace Them)
- What to Wear to a Job Interview
- Gender Neutral Guide: What to Wear for an Interview
- AI Prompts to Prepare for Interviews
Interviewing Questions
- Guide to the Most Common Interview Questions and Answers
- Common Interview Questions
- Questions You’ll be Asked In An Internship Interview
- The STAR Method: The Secret to Acing Your Next Interview
Interview Practice
- Big Interview - The platform provides brief training modules and video practice to help you prepare for job, internship and graduate school interviews. Check out our Big Interview Student Handout.
- Students: Log in using your SUNet ID.
- Alumni: Visit Big Interview Alumni and log in using your @stanford.alumni.edu email and the organization code: CareerEd
- Meet with a Career Coach for a mock interview
- LinkedIn: Practice Common Interview Questions
Tech Interviews
- Top Technical Interview Tips
- Interviewing.io - Mock Interviews with engineers from Amazon, Google, Facebook and more.
- Google: Tech Dev Guide - Interview prep for software engineering positions
- LeetCode - A crowd-sourced list of 75 coding problems to prepare for tech interviews
Case Interviews
- Management Consulted - A platform containing 500+ case interviews, online courses, resume and cover letter templates, and ebooks to help you prepare for consulting fit and case interviews. CareerEd supports student use of this resource but does not endorse any services that require additional fees.
Negotiating
- Negotiation Video
- Negotiation: Strategies for Success
- Preparing for Negotiation Worksheet
- AI Prompts to Help You Negotiate a Job Offer
- Salary Negotiation Scripts: What to Say and How to Say It
Where to Find Salary Information
- Glassdoor - Salaries, bonuses, and total pay for multiple companies all posted anonymously by employees
- Salary.com
- Indeed: Salary Search
- SalaryExpert
- BuiltInSF - SF Tech and Startup Salaries
- H1B Salary Database