Career Services
Your transition from college to a career begins your first semester at Hastings College, as every internship, volunteer service, part time job, research study and extracurricular activity has the potential to add to your experience and employability.
For the student worker job board, career and internship support, including applying for internship credit, click the button below.
Hastings College Career Services staff are here to help and provide guidance when you’re seeking information about careers, summer jobs, internships, graduate school and full-time employment.
Services include Alumni Mentoring, on-campus employment, CPT/OPT, career fairs, career counseling and assessment; part-time, summer and full-time job listings; career readiness workships; resume, interview and job search preparation.
Nervous about an interview? Make an appointment for a mock interview and go in with confidence!
We can also help connect you to our wonderful alumni network!
Are you an employer looking to offer an internship, part job or full-time employment for a Hastings College student? Click here for more.
Career Services Staff
Carissa Uhrmacher
Director of Career Services
402.461.7400
carissa.uhrmacher@hastings.edu
Cecilia Velarde
Assistant Director of Career Services
402.461.7387
cecilia.velarde1@hastings.edu
Office Hours and Location
We are in the lower level of the Daugherty Student Engagement Center (map).
Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
After-hours meetings are available by appointment.
Internship Stories
When three Hastings College students left class Oct. 2, they weren’t expecting to make a neighbor’s day — they were just driving down 4th Street. Passing by a house near campus, football players Jakeveon Bolding of Clanton, Alabama; Konrad Prescott of Cheyenne, Wyoming; and JD Washington of Olive Branch, Mississippi, noticed an 87-year-old resident struggling to […]
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Hannah Sears, a wildlife biology major from Powell, Wyoming, had the privilege of visiting Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary (YWS) every summer as a child. She was fascinated by the sanctuary in Red Lodge, Montana, where she worked over the summer as an education assistant. During April of her sophomore year at Hastings College, Sears came across […]
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As fall approaches, Tom Huxtable ’73 has five enormous pumpkins growing in a patch three blocks from his home. The largest already weighs 470 pounds. During this peak growing season, its weight increases by as much as 30 pounds a day, making it a bit of a public spectacle in Lake City, Michigan, population 830. […]
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Wildfires are dangerous, unpredictable and capable of changing in seconds. While most people picture engines rolling toward a fire, Hastings College wildlife biology major Jaedyn Adler drops directly into the blaze by helicopter. Armed with only what he can carry, the senior and his crew are tasked with containing the fire until backup arrives. This […]
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Destini Johnson has always been interested in working with people. She began as a barista, and over the summer moved into a new role thanks to an internship with Enterprise Mobility in Grand Island, Nebraska. Johnson, a business administration major from Frederick, Colorado, attended a career fair hosted by Hastings College’s Career Services team in […]
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Molly Kammerer of Sutherland, Nebraska, felt like she could do anything at Hastings College. “The people who saw me, loved me and helped me, and pushed me to be the self that I am today,” she said. Kammerer, who graduated in May as a teacher with a biology endorsement, said, “My place mattered because I […]
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