Rizzo Career Center

About

What is Loyola's Rizzo Career Center?

The Rizzo Career Center at Loyola University Maryland serves all students and alumni in discovering fulfilling career paths, preparing to present their best selves to the world, and maximizing available resources to achieve their goals.

Loyola's Rizzo Career Center is open to all students and alumni, free of charge. Once you are a Greyhound, Loyola's career services will stick with you throughout the entirety of your professional career; we graciously welcome students back anytime, whether it be for a career change, resume review, or preparation for heading back to school.

Our Career Center stresses a multifaceted and repetative career process, that includes Discovery, Exploration, Prepare, and Pursuit. This is a cycle that may be repeated multiple times through one's time at Loyola or within their professional experience.

Learn more about out unique approach to career design below.

Our Services

Loyola's Rizzo Career Center offers a variety of services for each stage of career development.

The Discovery phase of the career process includes understanding who you are, such as your values, interests, and talents.

In this phase, students can meet with a career advisor to begin an introductory conversation into the majors and minors offered at Loyola, take an interest assessment like ther Strong Interest Inventory and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, utilize exploration activites, and attend self-discovery and discernment sessions hosted by the career center.

The Explore phase encourages students to get out and gain practical, hands-on experience when exploring one's interests.

This can be accomplished by experimenting with clubs and activities offered on Loyola's campus, trying out an on-campus job, getting involved in volunteer service, interacting with alumni, joining employer info sessions, and more.

The Prepare phase is the time where students get ready to present themselves on paper, online, and in person.

The career center helps students during the Prepare phase by building out resumes and cover letters, helping set up Handshake and LinkedIn profiles, and learning what interviewers are looking for by practicing interview skills.

Lastly, the Pursue phase is when students confidently execute job, internship, or graduate school search.

The Career Center offers an on-campus interview program with local employers, provides career fairs with local and regional employers, and offers coaching on job search strategies.

Resources

Loyola's Rizzo Career Center provides students with free access to a variety of platforms that aid students in their individual career processes. The main platforms offered to students include Handshake, Loyola Connect, and Big Interview.

Handshake is the Career Center's all-encompassing platform, where students can search for jobs and internships across the country, apply to on-campus positions, and schedule appointments with the Career Center.

Loyola Connect is a networking platform unique to Loyola University Maryland students and alumni. This platform allows students and alumni to connect and chat over the application, to discuss their career paths, goals, and aspirations. Currently, the platform is home to more than 3,000 Loyola alumni.

Big Interview is an AI-automated interview prep platform that students can use to prepare for upcoming interviews. The platform assesses its users for correct posture, rate of intonation, amount of times they've used filler words, and more. The platform provides a score at the end of each mock interview and allows students to practice their interview skills without having to speak to another individual.

Contact

There are a number of ways to connect with Loyola's Rizzo Career Center. Students can email LoyolaReady@loyola.edu with questions regarding the Career Center, or they may attach a copy of a resume or cover letter for review and feedback within 3-5 business days.

Students can also make an virtual appointment throughout the semester from 9AM - 5PM Monday through Friday, or come by drop-in hours where no appointment is needed from 12-3PM.