Career Center

The Career Center helps students choose majors, explore careers, set goals, and prepare for jobs or graduate school. Students can get help creating academic and career plans, finding employment opportunities, and gaining work-based learning experience.

Students can meet with career counselors for one-on-one support, including career planning, job search strategies, interview practice, graduate school decision making, and overcoming barriers. Peer educators also support students with career resources and resume reviews. The Career Center connects students with employers through job fairs, networking events, workshops, and interviews.

Students can also use online tools and resources. The Career Center website, social media, YouTube channel, CareerLink, and Handshake provide career tips, event information, job market updates, tutorials, job and internship postings, and access to employer events.

CareerLink guides students through the maze of academic and career information, provides job seeking and career-readiness tutorials, and helps students with planning for life after college. Using Handshake, students can apply for jobs and internships with national and regional employers, locate on-campus and work study jobs, register for company information sessions and workshops, gain advice from the Handshake community and schedule on-campus interviews.

The Career Center houses Matty’s Closet, a free career clothing program made possible by the generous donations of CSUN staff, faculty, employer partners, and the community. It provides students access to work-ready clothing that helps them present themselves with confidence in any professional setting.

Comprehensive career services are provided at no charge to currently enrolled CSUN students and continue for a year after graduation. Tseng College students and CSUN alumni receive a modified career service package at no charge, including access to job fairs, tailored career events, Handshake, and CareerLink.