Category Archives: Career

Digital Badge Opportunity

The Assessment and Data Analytics Team, within the Division of Student Affairs, is proud to offer Longhorns the opportunity to earn a digital badge in survey design with the new Survey Design: Foundations course. This unique skill will be valuable throughout your educational journey and beyond, across a spectrum of career fields, including but not limited to marketing, data analytics, user experience research and more! Enhance your research skills and impress future employers by adding this badge to your LinkedIn profile.

This foundational badge provides information on survey purpose, institutional review board requirements, informed consent, security/confidentiality, and will provide earners the opportunity to practice identifying and writing different types of survey questions.

To earn your badge:

  1. Follow this link to access the Canvas course.
  2. Complete the five Canvas modules by watching each video and scoring at least 80% on the corresponding quiz.
  3. This robust course will take approximately 2 hours to complete, however you can navigate the modules at your own pace and are not required to finish all modules in one session.

For questions, please email vpsa-assessdata@austin.utexas.edu.

Teach For America Opportunities

The following opportunities come from Teach For America. If you are interested in either of these positions, please visit their respective links and fill out the application by the given deadline!

Leadership, Teacher Corps Program:

Are you looking for a full-time job post-graduation that will allow you to begin a career of impact? Consider applying to Teach For America’s Leadership Teacher Corps. Being a part of this program will give you real-world, hands-on experience for you to develop transferrable skills that can be applied to various industries, while also connecting you to a network of over 65,000 leaders across the country. Teach For America is an equity-driven organization that equips leaders to make an impact both in and outside of education in over 40 regions across the United States.

  • Check out the application here. Apply by September 16 at 11:59pm.
  • Connect with Caroline for a 30-minute, phone call meeting to learn more and ask any questions that you may have.

Ignite Fellowship:

The Ignite Fellowship offers college undergraduate students a paid tutoring opportunity that fits into their schedules. This leadership opportunity will allow you to make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people in an under-resourced school by supporting their academic progress and sense of belonging through customized instruction during their school day. The Ignite Fellowship allows you to gain unique, hands-on experience and professional badges that will validate your marketable skills and give you an edge in landing and performing in any job after college.

  • Check out the application here. Submit your application by November 20.

Pre-Law Guide

Attention Pre-Law LAHers!!!

There is now a new Canvas site dedicated to Pre-Law resources for UT students. If you are interested in exploring law school and legal careers, be sure to check it out at the link here!

Fall Pre-Health Seminar

Are you interested in a career in the health professions?

If so, sign up for NSC 109 Health Professions Pathways: Foundations!

Why should you sign up?

  • Get started on your health professions portfolio
  • Learn from health professionals
  • Build a pre-health community

How to sign up?

  • Search in the course schedule for NSC 109 and look for sections with Instructor name Wandelt or search instructor last name: Wandelt
  • Choose any of the open sections!
  • Be sure to check the Canvas course at the start of the semester for information about the hybrid course format!

If you are interested, please view the course flyer at the link here!

Advise TX: College Advising Corps

Advise TX places recent college graduates as full-time college advisers in Title One high schools in five regions of Texas. Advise TX provides the support that students in Title One high schools require to navigate the complex processes of college admissions, matriculation and financial aid. The University of Texas at Austin chapter has 18 advisers serving Central Texas, Dallas, El Paso, Houston and the Rio Grande Valley.

  • 11 month contract with the option to renew for another year (perfect for anyone wanting a gap year or two).
  • Opportunity to shape the lives and futures of high school students; if you believe in the importance of higher education, this role gives you the opportunity to help students access it.
  • Phenomenal jumping off point for any career; gets you connected to a national organization that is respected around the globe.

This would be a perfect opportunity for LAHers! Click here to visit the Advise TX website.

Startup Coffee Connect

Startup Coffee Connect is a casual, friendly networking event for all Longhorn entrepreneurs. Open to all students, faculty, and staff, the HKEC provides a relaxed environment for innovators to discuss what they are working on, pitch ideas to potential founding partners, and enjoy the complimentary coffee bar and breakfast tacos. After brief opening remarks about upcoming opportunities within the UT Startup Ecosystem from HKEC Assistant Director Amanda Golden, the floor is opened for entrepreneurs to mingle and network amongst each other.
Hook ‘Em!

How It Works

1. NETWORK: Chat with other innovators and find new potential partners!
2. PITCH: Get your idea out there and get constructive feedback (apply here to pitch)!
3. SIP/SNACK: Treat yourself to coffee and breakfast tacos on the house!
Startup Coffee Connect is open to all UT undergraduate students, graduate students, faulty and, staff.

Startup Coffee Connect

Explore Law | Summer 2022 Application Still Open

This summer’s Explore Law are still open. Explore Law’s goal is to increase the numbers of high-priority undergraduate students from the University of Texas at Austin, Huston-Tillotson University, and Austin Community College who apply to and are accepted into law school. Over the last seven years, we’ve had over one hundred students complete the program, and over 95% of them are presently on a path to and through law school.

 

The cornerstone of the program is the four-week summer program. This summer the program will run 18 July to 12 August. Participants who complete the program earn a stipend of $1,500.00. We are currently planning to meet in person.

 

Applications are now due Wednesday, 20 April, 11:59P Central. Students can find details about the remaining virtual info sessions on the website and can contact Eric Dieter at ericdieter@austin.utexas.edu

Liberal Arts in Campaigns & Politics

Do you want to work in politics? Are you interested in protecting the right to vote? Itching to be part of a campaign? Thinking about law school? Join us for a live Zoom Q&A with a longhorn who has done all of that and more since her graduation.

Wednesday, March 30th 2022
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Zoom)
RSVP here.

Amanda Gnaedinger has ten years of experience working in politics, including as Legislative Director for the Texas House of Representatives, Staff Attorney at Lone Star Justice Alliance, and Elections Protection Training Manager at Common Cause. Amanda is a double longhorn. She received her B.A. in Rhetoric & Writing and Chinese Language & Literature from UT in 2012 and her JD from UT Law in 2016.

Careers in Politics Symposium

The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at UT Austin is hosting our annual Careers in Politics symposium this April 9th, in person! Careers in Politics is the University’s premier political, public service, and government job-centric seminar. We work to provide direct access to the biggest names in politics. Speakers will share words of wisdom, offer strategies to help you find your role in the world of politics, and provide guidance as you embark on your career in politics via panels and keynotes.

 

The event will conclude with a catered mixer where attendees are encouraged to meet and network with other students from across Central Texas and the state. This event is capped at 75 attendees to keep conversations intimate and networking manageable. There is a $5 registration fee. Students can register at bit.ly/cip2022.