For Alumni
Your career support beyond the redwoods
Career Success provides support to Banana Slugs after graduation. Whether you need help finding your next opportunity, applying and interviewing, developing professional skills, or exploring personal and professional goals and interests, we can help.
Career Success resources for all alumni
You have free access to most of our career digital resources, including
- Admission to all fairs, recruiting events, and workshops listed on Handshake
- Job board on Handshake
- Job search curriculum from Big Interview
- Resume curriculum from Big Interview
- Resume optimization with Jobscan Premium (listed in digital resources)
- Interview preparation from Big Interview
- Job simulations from Forage
Career Success resources for recent alumni (graduated within the last two years)
You have free access to the resources listed above, plus
- One-on-one career coaching appointment, scheduled on Handshake
Services offered by the Alumni Engagement Office
The Alumni Engagement Office is dedicated to supporting the professional success of all alumni. They offer a variety of professional networks and career services. Browse their webinars, online communities, courses, UC career fairs, career coaching directory, and more!
Support accessing digital resources
Most digital resources don’t require you to create an account, and you can access them with their respective links on the digital resources page.
Handshake
You will need your UCSC Gold ID and password to log into Handshake via single sign-on (SSO). Your SSO credentials may automatically be deactivated if you don’t use SSO for a year. If you need help recovering your credentials, visit the CruzID Manager FAQ.
You can use Handshake without access to your UCSC email address. We recommend updating your primary email address on Handshake to a personal email address to continue receiving emails from Handshake.
Big Interview
You will need to use your UCSC email address to create an account with Big Interview. This will email you a link that you need to use to activate your account the first time. After you do this, you will set a password specifically for Big Interview.
As alumni, you automatically keep your UCSC email address for one year. If you would like to keep your UCSC email address beyond that one year, you need to follow these instructions from ITS.