• Focus 2: An online, career tool that helps to match careers based on your personality self-assessment. Create your profile today! Use the Northeast Lakeview College access code: nighthawks
  • Explore majors based on self-assessment
  • Research careers associated with specific majors
  • Compare occupations
  • Learn important industry data and facts
  • Decide which career fields and majors are best for you
• Career Coach: A web-based tool that provides local data on wages, employment, job postings, and the associated education and training that can lead to your intended career.
  • Create a professional résumé using the Build Your Resume feature
  • Undecided? No worries, take the Career Assessment to discover occupations that interest you!
  • Link majors to careers
  • Action Plans
  • Career Portfolio
  • What Can I Do With This Major?
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Occupational Outlook Handbook guide includes career information for hundreds of occupations!
• O*Net Online: This site is the nation’s primary source for occupational information.   
• Texas Reality Check: Use one of three methods to compare occupations, lifestyles, and salary goals to find recommended careers.

• Campus Resources
• TopResume: Career Advice
• Vault: Career, résumé, and interview guides, internship search, employer, and industry research. 
• Educate To Career Salary Calculator
• NACE Competencies:  Skills Employers Want
• Effective Résumé
  • Career Coach Résumé Builder- Sign Up and Build Your Résumé
  • Résumé Examples & Samples for Every Career
  • Action verbs to include in your résumé 
  • Résumé action verbs, power words, adjectives, buzzwords
  • 185 Powerful Action Verbs That Will Make Your Résumé Awesome
  • Résumé Genius
  • Business.com
  • Live Career Résumé Samples 
  • Does Your Résumé Pass the 6-Second Test?

• Cover Letter
  • How to Write a Cover Letter
  • Cover letter templates
  • Cover Letter Examples

• Interviewing Skills
  • Dress for Success
    • How to Dress for Success for a Job Interview
    • What to Wear for a Formal or Casual Interview 
  • Interview Tips: How to Make a Great Impression
  • Mock Interviews: Email nlc-careers@alamo.edu to schedule your mock interview.
  • Common Interview Questions
  • Post Interview Thank You Letter
    • Job Interview Thank-You Letter Examples

• Networking
  • Begin building and maintaining your professional network by developing a LinkedIn account.
    • LinkedIn for Students 
  • Share your Personal Brand by building an elevator speech.
    • How to Give an Elevator Pitch
• Video Library
  • Visit the NLC Office of Career Services & Job Placement YouTube
  • Career Advice: Videos
  • Purepost Knowledge Center Learn about interviewing, the power of networking, researching company culture, how to negotiate salary, etc.

• Handshake: Premiere job board for college students. Access on your ACES Student tab.

• AlamoEXPERIENCE: Access your ACES Student tab to discover events and other experiential student opportunities.

• Parker Dewey Micro-Internships: Connects students to micro-internships, short-term, paid projects, offered by real companies. Students can apply to work on entry-level tasks, from a remote setting.

• Alamo Colleges District – Office of Workplace Learning: Offers several ways to enhance your education through paid, hands-on opportunities in San Antonio or across the globe through local and regional internships, federal internships, STEM Research, and internship workshops.
• City of San Antonio - Student Internship Program: Link theory to practice, gain real-world experience, and develop specialized skills while working in departments within the city’s organization.
• Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU): Find internship opportunities, available scholarships, and job search.
• Texas Internship Challenge: Find internship opportunities in a variety of industries all over Texas
• Internships.com: Identified by Forbes as a “Top 10 Career Website,” this site lets you search through over 70,000 openings by using keywords and location.
• WayUp: (Formerly InternMatch) Search for volunteer and paid internships by companies, cities, or categories. Sign up and create your profile to let recruiters find you.
• ZipRecruiter: An additional internship resource. Can search by degree, location, salary, etc. 
• Idealist: Gain experience by participating in volunteer work in your community. 
• Volunteer Match: Find volunteer opportunities.
• United Nations Volunteers: If you’re looking to take your online volunteering worldwide, this is the place to start. UNV connects you with organizations working for peace and development in need of skills like research, writing, art, and design. There are already over 12,000 volunteers from 187 countries lending their talents to organizations around the globe.
• Catchafire: This volunteer search tool is exclusively for online volunteer projects. Each one has a timeline that can range anywhere from an hour to a few weeks. So whether you have an afternoon or several, you can help not-for-profit with tasks like writing thank-you letters or editing photos.
• Smithsonian: The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, but even they could use a little help sometimes. Help make their collections more accessible by volunteering online to transcribe historical documents or edit Wikipedia articles related to their artifacts and research.
• Amnesty International Decoders: Operated by Amnesty International, this network of digital volunteers helps conduct research into global human rights violations. Volunteers have used their phones and computers to verify the location of oil spills, fin evidence of drone strikes, and flag abusive tweets to women politicians in India.
• Translators Without Borders: For those fluent in more than one language, check out this nonprofit that combines language skills with humanitarian aid. Volunteers provide translations (10 million words a year!) to international organizations that focus on crisis relief, health, and education.
• Zooniverse: A platform for people-powered research that literally wouldn’t be possible (or practical) without the help of online volunteers. Spend as much or as little time as you’d like identifying endangered animals, classifying galaxy systems, or transcribing Shakespearean manuscripts.
• Crisis Text Line: Here’s a perfect example of technology being used for good. Become a volunteer to help the Crisis Text Line continues to offer free, 24/7 support for those in crisis. If you’re at least 18 and can commit to volunteering four hours each week, you can apply to be trained for free.
• Points of Light: Help create a global culture of volunteerism. Points of Light encourages you to find a way to get involved by reviewing the world’s largest network of volunteer opportunities.
• DoSomething.org:  DoSomething empowers young people to enact social change both online and off. Volunteer online through one of our campaigns to help solve real-world problems. DoSomething members have used the interview to successfully urge Apple to diversity their emojis, change the dictionary definition of "Black/black", and create the largest crowdsourced anti-bullying guide.

Campus Events

Thank you for working with Northeast Lakeview College.  We are committed to assisting employers find talent to fill part-time, full-time, seasonal, and internship opportunities.

We welcome employer and community partnerships, to help build a pipeline, of skilled and educated talent for the North East San Antonio area and our surrounding municipalities.

To learn about additional partnership opportunities, please visit the Alamo Colleges District Employer Partnership web page, https://www.alamo.edu/about-us/employer-partnership-opportunities/.

Post jobs and internships at no cost

• • Online Job Board: Northeast Lakeview College uses an online job board powered by Handshake to connect our Nighthawk Students with employer opportunities.
    • Connect with students
    • Post-employment/internship opportunities
    • Register for our events
  • How to Create Your Employer Handshake Account
    • Click here to sign up
    • Read the Employer Guidelines
    • Connect with Alamo Colleges District

  • Handshake Employer Help Center-Handshake troubleshooting and FAQs

Additional Ways to Connect

• • Schedule an Informational Table
  • Attend the Career Fair
  • Host an Information Session
  • Present to classes or student groups

NLC Campus Map

• • Check-in: Please check in at the Welcome Center, located in the 1st floor of the Brazos Student Union (building 300). 

About NLC: History of NLC, Fast Facts & Student Profile

• Purepost for Active Duty and Veteran Students: Provides a skills assessment based on your military training and work experience, while also creating a fully translated, civilian résumé, and online profile. Register today to showcase your education while building upon the valuable foundation of your skills and work experience gained from your military service.
  • A skills assessment showing 30+ in-demand skills for each of your military positions.
  • Translated job titles and duties that help employers understand the value of your military background
  • Online profile and downloadable PDF resume
  • Online collaboration with Career Services professionals
• Military to Civilian Occupation Translator: Match military skills and experience to civilian occupations.
• Recruit Military
• Texas Veterans Commission
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E)
• Veterans' Employment & Training Services (VETS)
• G.I. Jobs
• USAJOBS: Connects job seekers with federal employment opportunities across the U.S.