This page has lists and links to get you started.
These three job listings pages will connect you to current job postings which are pooled from multiple job boards (listed below these links). Our staff and others on campus would like to hear where you land after graduation. Please tell your story for others to know about your journey.
- Internships (most are NOT local)
- Job Postings (post-graduation)
Start here for Campus Opportunities (jobs, research, volunteering)
- Handshake @ Illinois. Log in with your NetID and campus password. You don’t need to complete your profile to use the site. Handshake is your source of campus workshops, career fairs, tips, position postings, and more.
- Fall 2022 Career Fair list –Illinois Career Fairs are open to all students
- Campus Jobs board for paid campus Undergrads and Grad Student positions
- Research Park Job Board Yes, jobs of interest to liberal arts majors show up here.
- Volunteer Programs
- WE CU: COMMUNITY ENGAGED SCHOLARS Empowering students to meet the needs of the Champaign-Urbana community
- Undergraduate Research
- Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program
- Undergrad Research Blog
- Psychology Department Research Opportunities
More Campus Opportunities (sorted by organization)
- University Housing Paraprofessional Employment
- Counseling Center Paraprofessional Program
- SourceLab
- Jobs at the Library
- Illinois Foundation
- Japan House Internships
- Career Center’s paraprofessional program
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois hires grads for a variety of administrative, student services, and operations roles. For current students, you will want to link to the campus/local page.
Job boards: General Sites with a wide variety of positions
- * Handshake. The main job-seeking platform for U of I students
- * Idealist. An excellent source for positions with nonprofit organizations
- * IllinoisJobLink.com (+100,000 jobs in Illinois)
- * Micro-internships with Parker Dewey. Paid project-based work experience. This specific URL/page supports Illinois students. Great place to start when you are not sure where to start.
- Indeed (try searching by your major, a title, or location)
- Manpower (global locations and language required positions)
- US government job board or State of Illinois Job Board
- Illinois Department of Human Services
- Support-Driven and Conversation Designer Jobs. Jobs in tech for non-tech people.
- Go Abroad, Programs for teaching abroad
- Peace Corp and AmeriCorps, Teach for America, or Housing Action Illinois limited length experiences to help tack challenges locally and globally
Additional resources sorted by areas of interest
Learn more by connecting with organizations related to your interests/field of study (major/minor). In addition, the bottom folder has many job boards that don’t fall easily into one category; this link has an assortment of job boards.
- Anthropology
- Art History
- Classics
- Communications
- Earth, Environmental and Sustainability
- Education and Teaching
- English/ Communications/ Publishing/ Media/ Writing
- Governments & Public Policy: City, County, State, Federal, & Global
- History
- Human Resources
- Languages and Cultures
- Life Science **New in May 2023
- Linguistics
- Local employers: Champaign and Urbana
- Math-based and Quantitative Methods
- Museums
- Non-Profit Job Boards
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Religion
- Sociology
- Various Interests for LAS students
