Career Services For Students
For Students
HDS Office of Career Services seeks to provide high-quality resources and services to support students and alumni in achieving their professional goals. Our operating principle is A-B-C, Always Be Connecting, and we aim to connect students to ways and means to effectively direct your vocation over a lifetime.
Explore
The Office of Career Services’ staff is committed to helping students gain access to people, materials, and opportunities that will aid in career discernment and job search. Explore our Career Resource Library and Guides or view examples of topics frequently requested for individual meetings:
- Assessment of skills, experience and interests
- Application preparation for further study
- Identifying resources across Harvard
- Researching fields and organizations
- Résumés/CV and Cover Letter Review
- Job search correspondence
- Salary Negotiations
- Mock Interviews
- Informational Interview Preparation
- Networking
Make the Connection
Career Consultation
Career consultations help you identify strategies related to potential professional fields or career goals and may include topics like professional planning and credentialing strategies, networking assistance, skill gap assessments, interview preparation and coaching, or preparation for salary negotiation. The HDS Career Planning and Job Search Guide and online tip sheets offer a wide variety of career-related insights.
Email Career Services to make an appointment.
Events
Throughout the year, the Office of Career Services facilitates events and roundtables to help participants acquire skills and understand the elements of career planning and job-hunting. Additionally, Career Services promotes a number of career fairs that are open to HDS students from across the University. These fairs feature representatives and recruiters from a wide variety of organizations.
Alumni Videos and Stories
The HDS Alumni Career Stories and Advice Video Library is a unique and treasured resource for HDS students. This collection, now featuring interviews with over 250 MDiv and MTS alumni, includes close to 700 videos highlighting an impressive array of HDS graduates' careers. These stories will help to envision the possibilities for your own vocational goals, and gain insights on navigating life after HDS.
Access for current students: Log in to Canvas, and you should see the HDS Alumni Video Library right in your dashboard.
Professional Networking
Learn more about, prepare for, and build relationships within a career field with guidance from Career Services. Use the Harvard Alumni Directory, a free resource available to all current students and alumni, and the HDS Alumni and Student Community Group on LinkedIn to connect across the Harvard community.
Opportunities in Support of HDS Student's Professional Goals
Select Fellowships
The Office of Career Services advises on and contributes to the nomination of select fellowship opportunities, including U.S. Student Program Fulbright Fellowships and Harvard Traveling Fellowships.
Student Conference Fund
The HDS Student Conference Fund supports HDS degree candidates who seek to attend academic and professional conferences or workshops which are external to Harvard University and related to their field of study.
HBS Online CORe
Harvard Business School’s Credential of Readiness (CORe) is a distinctive online program designed and taught by leading Harvard Business School faculty to develop skills that are critical to professional success.
Experiential Learning Fund
The Experiential Learning Fund is provided by HDS Student Services and exists to promote the engagement of HDS students in training, practice, and/or activism related to the student's scholarly and vocational goals.
