Preparing for your future career starts today!
Choose Your Major or Career
Career decision-making is a life-long process that includes exploring the world of work and understanding how your skills, interests, personality, and values connect to it. Career Services staff can help you through this process, offering guidance about how to uncover your career sweet spot.
Your career sweet spot means that you are pursuing careers that use your skills, fit your interests, compliment your personality strengths, and are in line with your values. This isn't an easy balance to achieve, but remember, Career Services can equip you with the skills to evaluate your options as you move through your academic career and as you navigate the changes that occur in your life.
Learning About You
Researching Your Options
Connecting the Dots
Talk with Career Services staff. Weigh your options, discuss pros and cons of each, and together, we'll figure out your career sweet spot! Make an appointment with Career Services on Handshake to get started.
Find a Job or Internship
Most people begin an internship or job search operating off assumptions. Continue reading to learn how to get started and about the sorts of activities and resources that will set you up for success!
Learn About Job and Internship Search Best Practices
Develop a comprehensive, proactive internship or job search plan before you get started. Utilize techniques that will increase your chances of uncovering leads and securing interviews in today's global, interconnected, and technology-driven economic climate. Download this article about contrasting good job-search to weak job-search techniques. If you've already begun your search, evaluate what you are currently doing against what this article lays out. How does your strategy measure up against best practices? Participate in one of our career events, such as a workshop about internship and job searching.
Research and Narrow Your Options
What is your internship or job search target? Can you describe the sort of duties you would like to perform in a job or internship? Can you name examples of organizations that might offer your ideal experience? Can you pinpoint metropolitan areas where you would like to work? For some, it is easy to answer these questions, but for others, answering these questions feels overwhelming.
If you would like help articulating your career goals, explore the Choose Your Major or Career section of this web page. Resources like the What Can I Do With This Major? website and the LinkedIn Alumni Tool can be good places to start (use the LinkedIn Alumni Tool video to learn more about how to use it).
Prepare your Materials
Let's be sure that your application materials showcase your accomplishments and tell a compelling story about the skills you can offer. Download our Resume Writing Materials to build confidence about how you are presenting yourself to employers on paper. Need more help? Participate in a Resume Writing Workshop or make an appointment with Career Services on Handshake.
Find Job or Internship Postings
Set up an account on Handshake, LSUS's job listings platform. Employers who are interested in hiring LSUS students and alumni post a variety of opportunities onto this site, including part-time roles, internships, and full-time positions. Stay up-to-date about new opportunities posted to the site by periodically checking Career Services social media channels, too (Career Services Instagram, Career Services Facebook).
In addition to the university's online job board, use popular search engines like GradSiren's Explore Internships tool and LinkedIn Jobs. Uncover industry and geographic specific resources by conducting smart Google searches: use your favorite search engine and type "KEYWORD + job posting sites." Evaluate the results you receive back and determine if the job boards will help you uncover high quality postings connected to your target.
Career Services staff has also curated a list of identity-based resources to help students from marginalized communities clarify their career direction and to increase their competitiveness and connections. Find the Affinity Group Resources here.
Involve Others
Talk to anyone who will listen to you about your internship and job search goals. Family, friends, professors, mentors, and Career Services staff are all eager to help you and support you toward securing the experience you are after.
Use informational interviews to build one-on-one relationships with people who can offer advice, insight, and an insider's perspective of the industry you would like to enter. Download our Informational Interview worksheet to get started. It will help you brainstorm people to talk to, consider questions you'd like to ask, and carry out the strategy you've developed. Events are another great way to speak with individuals about your internship and job search goals. Consider attending the Regional Career and Internship Fair, offered each semester, to talk to representatives from organizations that are seeking to hire folks for part-time roles, internships, and full-time jobs.
Prepare for the Interview
Build confidence when speaking about yourself to prospective employers. First, attend an upcoming interviewing workshop (which can be found in our career events), review our LSUS Career Spots videos, and use printed resources like our interview preparation checklist. Then, use the Interview Prep app to practice. Interview Prep is a mock interview platform that allows you to create and record practice interviews. Once you have completed your mock interview, you can send a link to the video to Career Services or trusted members of your network for feedback.
Additional Job/Internship Resources
Below is a list of resources to help you find the job or internship that's best for you:
Get Into Graduate or Professional School
Are you considering graduate school? It's never too early to plan for education opportunities beyond your undergraduate career. When appropriate for your career goals, we encourage you to consider furthering your education through graduate or professional school.
Whether continued education occurs here at LSUS or at another institution, you can utilize the resources below to prepare for and navigate the graduate school admissions process. There are many decisions to be made so do your research and gain as much information about your options as possible.
If you'd like help weighing the decision to go to graduate/professional school, or you want help planning out when and how to pursue it, make an appointment with Career Services on Handshake.
Graduate/Professional School Resources
Below is a list of resources for those interested in continuing their education past undergrad.
Look to resources such as gradschools.com and petersons.com for more help deciding to attend graduate school, choosing a program, planning your finances, and navigating the application and preparation process.
Workshop and Events Schedule
Career Services offers hour-long workshops on resume writing, interviewing, LinkedIn, and other topics related to the internship and job search throughout the semester. All workshops are livestreamed via Zoom if you cannot attend in person.
Check the LSUS calendar, the Career Services Facebook page, and the Handshake events page for more information about each event and to RSVP about attending. Zoom links will be available on Handshake and in a newsletter delivered to your student email. Download our Spring 2026 workshop and events calendar.
2026 Regional Career Fair
Thursday, March 19, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CST
The Gold Dome at Centenary College
3482 Dixie Dr, Shreveport, LA 71104
Pre-register for the 2026 Regional Career Fair on Handshake.
Explore opportunities and build professional contacts for part-time, internship, and full-time roles at a regional event, jointly offered by LSUS, Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC), Centenary College, Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College (NLTCC), NSU-Nursing, and Southern University Shreveport Louisiana (SUSLA). Graduate and professional schools will also be present to connect with about continuing your education.
The event is open to first-year thru graduate students in all majors. Folks working toward completing their degrees from any participating school are encouraged to attend. We also welcome alumni from each school to participate in the event!
Transportation from LSUS to Centenary will be provided, courtesy of the City of Shreveport.
Questions? Call 318-797-5062 or email career@lsus.edu.
Handshake at LSU Shreveport
Handshake is a modern, sleek, online career resource for students and alumni to:
- Explore thousands of available jobs and internships, organized in collections based on your interests
- Quickly build a profile that helps employers search for qualified students and alumni
- Track event and application deadlines to plan ahead and put your best foot forward
- Schedule on-campus interviews
- Connect with employers at recruiting events
- Build your confidence and career readiness by engaging in professional development workshops and resources
Login to Handshake
Current students visit lsus.joinhandshake.com. Enter your LSUS email address and claim the account that we've created for you. The advantage of activating your account is that many of your student-connected information (like Program opf Study, Classification, and GPA) will already be loaded into your profile. After you've activated your account, fill out your profile, upload a resume, and take Handshake for a spin! Learn more about the platform using the Getting Started with Handshake web page.
Alumni receive free access to Handshake and all other resources offered through Career Services. Alumni should request an account using their personal email address and wait up to 48 business hours while we verify your status as an alum.
Looking for help? Use the Handshake self-guided tutorials.
Fraudulent and Scam Job Postings
LSUS Career Services works very hard to keep fraudulent postings off Handshake by vetting and researching all companies and postings that come through the site. If common suspicious features, or "red flags" arise, we make a decision about whether or not to allow the employer or role to affiliate with us. In addition to the precautions we take, you also should research suspicious companies or postings in order to make fully informed decisions about pursuing an opportunity, whether you find it on Handshake or on your own.
To avoid scammers who appear to pose as legitimate employers with legitimate jobs, practice these precautionary measures:
- Verify the opportunity by contacting the actual business that posted the job. Consider going through the Better Business Bureau.
- Be suspicious when the job posting does not have an application or interview process, is described as "running errands," or asks you to purchase gift cards.
- If you think you see something suspicious on Handshake, contact Career Services at career@lsus.edu so that we can delete the posting.
For more information about avoiding internet scams, read the Federal Trade Commission's guide on How to Avoid A Scam. Also, review this list of common red flags connected to job postings from our counterparts in Baton Rouge, the LSU Olinde Career Center.
