Career Services
Welcome!
All of us at Career Services wish you a Happy Thanksgiving holiday. Please note that our office will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 26-27 and will re-open on Monday, November 30.
Frequently Asked Questions about Career Services at URI
Frequently Asked Questions about RhodyNet
URI students and and graduate students are offered the following services:
- Resume and cover Letter review
- Confidential career assessment and evaluation
- Confidential career counseling appointments and walk-in service
- Job and internship search assistance
- Career workshops on resume writing, interviewing and other career topics
- On-campus interviews
- Job and career fairs, including Engineering and Technology, Summer, Internship, Nursing, Government, Fall and Spring Career and Job Fairs
- C.V. review, assistance with job search in academe/industry
Online services:
- RhodyNet: Oceans of Career Possibilities. Job & Internship Postings. Searchable database of part-time, summer, and full-time jobs as well as internships. Over 2500 employer/organization/agency contacts: local, regional, national and international
- Self-assessment instruments
- Career newsletters
Additional services:
- Graduate school planning and preparation
- Videotaped mock interviews
- Alumni Career Mentors
- Career Resource Center: handouts, print directories, books and magazines, technical help
RhodyNet, Oceans of Career Possibilities, is an online career management system accessed by students through their unique ID#, password protected, and exclusive to URI. About RhodyNet.
Members of the Career Services staff are committed to:
- Maintaining excellent service to students, employers, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni;
- Serving through “high-tech” and “high-touch”;
- Promoting and supporting diversity initiatives and inclusive practices;
- Ensuring equal employment opportunity and fair access for all URI students through our exclusive online career management system, RhodyNet. All students have an opportunity to view jobs posted by employers (including campus departments) choosing to post through Career Services.
We look forward to assisting you whether you are a student, employer, alumnus/alumna, faculty or staff member, or other guest of the University. Please contact us for assistance and questions.
Contact Information
Room 228 Roosevelt Hall
90 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI 02881
401.874.2311
FAX 401.874.5525
career@etal.uri.edu
Walk-in Career Advising
M - F 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Fall and Spring
Career Advising Appointments
Call 874-2311 or visit
228 Roosevelt Hall
2009 - 2010 Events
Graduate School Fair
October 6, 2009
Accounting Night
October 8, 2009
Engineering & Technology Job Fair
October 21, 2009
Pharmacy Interview Day
October 28, 2009
Internship Job Fair
November 4, 2009
Government and Boston Museum Fair
November 5, 2009
Nursing Job Fair
November 20, 2009
Fall Career and Job Fair
December 9, 2009
Summer & Internship Job Fair
March 3, 2010
Spring Career & Job Fair
April 7, 2010
RICE Education Career Fair
April 21, 2010
Career Services thanks its Corporate Sponsor
for continuing support
