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
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 that 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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Hastings College student T’Nae Young has always been fascinated by criminal psychology, from her love of crime shows as a child to her internship at District 10 Probation in Hastings, where she has found herself putting juvenile delinquents back on the right path. Young, a senior criminology and psychology double major from the Bahamas, applied […]
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Claire Fuqua began their journey to becoming an animal care technician by rescuing a stray kitten — taking the cat to Heartland Pet Connection in Hastings and picking up a job application in the process. Fuqua, a wildlife biology and philosophy & religion double major from Woodland Park, Colorado, received an acceptance call the day […]
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When Hastings College alumnus Philip Daniel ’15 of Lincoln, Nebraska, released his first original piano album in graduate school, he hoped a few people might listen. Today, his music has been streamed nearly 100 million times, licensed more than 500,000 times for films, television, commercials and online videos, and performed for audiences around the world. […]
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In the 1970s, you couldn’t miss them — “I Love Jesus” bumper stickers, T-shirts and buttons were everywhere. Hastings College senior history major Emma Morelli explained why during a presentation at Academic Showcase in April. Academic Showcase is a day when Hastings College students present research of their choosing to peers, faculty and community. Her […]
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