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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
• LinkedIn 
• 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

Job Search Listings

Check out our Experience page for Job Search Listings

• General 
• Population-Specific: PhDs/Postdocs, International Students & Frosh/Soph 
• Industry-Specific

LinkedIn

• LinkedIn Profile Checklist  
• Leveraging LinkedIn: A Guide for Connecting with Alumni  

Resumes  

• What Kind of “Opportunities” Count as Experience on your Resume 
• Steps to Writing Your Resume  
  • CAR Method for Developing Resume Content 
• Action Verb List
• ATS Resume
• Resume Review Checklist
• AI Prompts to Write Your Resume

 Resume How-To Videos  

• Resumes for PhD/Postdocs 
• CV Basics

Resume Samples and Templates 

• Easy, Editable Resume Template
• Resume Sample 1
• 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

• Cover Letter 1
• Cover Letter 2 
• Cover Letter 3 
• Cover Letter 4 
• Cover Letter 5  

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 
• What to Wear to a Job Interview
• Gender Neutral Guide: What to Wear for an Interview
• AI Prompts to Prepare for Interviews

Interviewing Questions 

• Common Interview Questions 
• 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

Tech Interviews

• 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
• 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 

Declining and Accepting an Offer 

• Exactly How to Respond to a Job Offer via Email (With Examples)
• Declining An Internship Offer
• Can You Renege On an Offer?