Your degree opens doors to diverse career paths. Explore how your education, skills, and interests can translate into fulfilling career opportunities, and how to make the most of your USask experience:

• Major Maps | get the most out of your degree and prepare for your future career
• Job Bank career planning tool | conduct occupational research using Job Bank
• Campus Connect | explore hiring trends, related job titles to your degree, and salary information
• LinkedIn | research the career paths of USask students and alumni
• Career informational interviews | discover how people navigated their career journey and chose their career paths

Career Services is pleased to offer Career Readiness Workshops for all USask students and alumni. Tailored to meet your career development needs, these workshops offer interactive sessions on a variety of key career readiness topics including:

• Resumes and CVs: an overview of how to write effective, professional, and stand out job search documents tailored to the job description
• Cover Letters: an overview of how to format and what content to include in a well-crafted personalized cover letter
• Job Search: an introduction to job search strategies and resources to support and optimize job search navigation
• Networking and LinkedIn: an introduction to how and where to professionally network and create/build your LinkedIn profile
• Interviewing: An overview of how to prepare for before, during, and after the interview to ensure your best success

Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to prepare for success at Career Services with our Career Peer Educators. Remember it is never too early or too late to embark on Your Path to Career Success! Workshops are offered weekly and can be registered for on our Events Page.

• Register for a Workshop

One-on-one Career Coaching appointments are a great place to start for all your career and employment questions. Regardless of whether you're a new student, finishing up your education, or an alumni, our Career Educators are here to help:

• Identify your goals and plan your next steps
• Explore your career options
• Discuss your career assessment results
• Build and review your job search documents: Resumes, Cover Letters and CVs
• Better understand strategies for approaching the job search
• Review and help build your LinkedIn profile

Career Coaching is available free of charge to all newly admitted and current USask students, and alumni.

Please note, if you are looking for information about academic program requirements or help in choosing your classes, you will want to access Academic Advising.

Career Assessments

Understanding your personality, interests, strengths and career values will help you make informed decisions about your career goals, evaluate opportunities, and better appreciate your USask Student Competencies Overview.

Career assessments are not intended to provide a definitive list of job or career options. Instead, they aim to generate possibilities, enhance your self-awareness, and complement the career coaching process.

• Book an appointment
• Career Assessments

Review the Planning for Career Success with Career Services guide for help in developing your resume and cover letter. Review the CV guide for help in developing your CV. For additional support, book a Resume and Job Search appointment through CareerLink.

Review the Planning for Career Success with Career Services guide for support with interviewing. For additional support, book a 45-minute Mock Interview or 20-minute Mini Mock Interview appointment through CareerLink.

FUSION Skill Development Modules are interactive and engaging approximately 3 hours, self-study curriculum designed to wraparound and complement your existing experiential learning opportunity and help you enhance your skills across critical 21st century skill domains.

• FUSION

ScotiaRISE ISERP is an Indigenous-grounded program that uses Indigenous ways of knowing and learning to help you to be better prepared to enter the world of work.

• ISERP

Grad School to Career Pathways

Your graduate education prepares you for a variety of careers possibilities. A graduate education from the University of Saskatchewan provides training beyond your discipline. Your graduate journey builds an array of competencies that will aid you in your career path.

CGPS mentorship program

USask’s graduate mentorship program allows graduate students (mentees) to receive support and guidance from current professionals to enrich their academic and professional journeys. Through these mentoring relationships, graduate students develop and enhance the skills, knowledge, attitudes, and connections they need to support their successful career transitions. 

Beyond the Professoriate (BtP)

Finishing your graduate program can be an overwhelming process as you step into the unknown and launch your professional job search. BtP is a professional development training platform with careers online exploration and planning tool that will support you in learning and developing successful job search strategies. BtP offers graduate students support into two different programs: Academic Careers Pathway program and Professional Careers Pathway program.

Three Minute Thesis® (3MT)

The Three Minute Thesis ® (3MT) competition is a dynamic opportunity for thesis-based graduate students to ​learn the art of clear, compelling communication. Hosted by the College of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies at USask every April, the 3MT challenges participants to distill their complex research into a three-minute presentation using just one static slide. Designed for a non-specialist audience, the competition helps students refine their public speaking, storytelling, and audience engagement skills—essential tools for academic, professional, and public success.

The GradHUB

The GradHUB is an online hub created by graduate students for graduate students at USask. It brings together campus-wide resources, events, and support to help you stay informed and successfully navigate graduate life.

• Grad School to Career Pathways
• CGPS Mentorship
• Beyond the Professoriate
• Three Minute Thesis
• GradHUB

Use CareerLink to book an appointment, register for career events and info sessions, and search for full, part-time or summer jobs and volunteer opportunities, and subscribe to have new postings sent directly to your inbox.

• Search job postings
• USask positions

Learn how to get the most out of your degree and prepare for your future career with USask Major Maps.

At the University of Saskatchewan, your education goes beyond the classroom. Experiential Learning connects what you're learning in your courses to real-world experiences, helping you develop practical skills, expand your network, and prepare for your future career.

Whether you're solving real problems for community partners, creating projects in the lab, completing a professional placement, or engaging in research, experiential learning helps you apply your knowledge in meaningful ways.

You'll work on real projects, tackle real challenges, and take time for focused reflection, thinking about what happened, why it mattered, and how you can grow from it. This reflection helps you strengthen your skills, deepen your knowledge, and understand your values, so you're ready for your next steps in your studies, your career, and your life.

• EL Opportunities at USask

CELP provides USask students with a structured project-based learning experience. These partnerships are driven by employer and community partner priorities that provide reciprocal benefits to both partners and students. Students can engage with employers in a 30-hour, impactful project where they will develop their core competencies. While completing these projects students have opportunities to reflect, share, act on their core competencies, and receive a bursary.

Contact program lead Tenneisha Nelson for more information and to be added to the mailing list on upcoming projects.

Level Up brings real projects from organizations into Universities. Get immersed in industry projects and get equipped with work-ready skills. LEVEL UP your resume by completing short-term, 80 hour projects over two to eight weeks from organizations and get paid $1,400 to do it! Show future employers you have the real skills they need.

• Riipen Level Up

The Indigenous Student Internship Program is a unique opportunity designed for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students at the University of Saskatchewan to gain valuable work experience while exploring their career paths. Its goal is to support career development by helping students recognize their skills, reflect on their experiences, and grow professionally. Rooted in Indigenous Ways of Knowing, the program approaches western perspectives. By integrating these perspectives, students are empowered to navigate their careers with confidence and cultural pride.

• ISIP

Career Fairs are an excellent way to meet future employers from various industries as you learn about their lines of work and job opportunities.

• Careers Day (Mutli-disciplinary)
• Pharmacy Career Fair
• Indigenous Students Career Fairs
• Computer Science Career Fair
• Education Career Fair
• Physical Therapy Career Fair

• Career Fairs

Employer Pop-ups are a fun and come-and-go way to meet future employers from various industries as you learn about their lines of work and job opportunities.

• Employer Pop-ups

Employer Info Sessions are your chance to meet with an employer or community partner in a small group setting. This is a great opportunity to connect and find out more about specific companies and industries, and also learn about the possible job opportunities with them!

• Employer Information Sessions

USask Connects is a mentee-lead program providing opportunity for USask students and recent graduates to support their academic and career journeys by gaining insight and guidance from USask alumni mentors.

• USask Connects

Whether you're seeking a part-time job during your studies or launching your career after graduation, here are best practices to guide your job search.

• Other job search sites

Have a virtual interview or employment related meeting coming up and looking for some private space on campus? A Career Services interview rooms are available for students and alumni to book for up to two hours.

• Open to all newly admitted and current USask students, and alumni.
• All bookings are made through the online form and are scheduled on a first come, first serve basis.
• Rooms are available Monday to Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm.
• Booking must be related to current or future employment, or career development.
• Maximum 2-hour booking; One booking per person, per day.
• One person per room.
• Booking cancellations must be made by emailing career.services@usask.ca or by calling us at 306-966-5003, at least 24-hour in advance of booked time.

• Book an Interview Room

Employers like to see candidates who are well-rounded and take the initiative to participate in their communities. Volunteering and community involvement are rewarding ways to gain valuable experience, develop important skills and build your professional network. Engaging in professional development opportunities, like workshops or non-credit courses, gives you the opportunity to learn outside of your academic program.

Use CareerLink to search for volunteer opportunities and subscribe to have new postings emailed to you. Check PAWS for more volunteer opportunities. Many groups on campus post PAWS bulletins when looking for volunteers.