Career Resources for LGBTQ+ Students
How can the URI Center for Career and Experiential Education (CCEE) help you? Explore this page to find out! As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, it’s important to understand your own identity development and determine how you can connect with resources, experiences, and people that can support you in your career development.
LGBTQ+ students and alumni can experience unique considerations during the job and internship search and in the workplace. Your identities bring unique assets and strengths into the workplace. Consider the qualities or skills you’ve developed from challenges that you’ve overcome or nuanced understanding you’ve gained by nature of your identity. We (CCEE Career Education Specialists) will work individually with you in a supportive and nonjudgmental way to help you unpack, identify, and explore your career interests, values, and goals.
CCEE is committed to Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion. Interested in learning about our plans and actions around diversity and social justice? We are also members of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and share in their commitment to developing and supporting a robustly diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.
We are committed to supporting you with:
- cultivating relationships with employers that have a commitment to social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace
- one-on-one appointments with your Career Education Specialist (CES)
- curated resources for navigating the workplace
There are a variety of LGBTQ+ focused websites you can use to search to support your career development.
Here are a few to get you started:
- Pink Jobs: LGBT, gay friendly jobs and candidates
- Campus Pride Jobs: Job Board for Campus Pride, which represents the leading national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for LGBTQ students
- LGBT Connect: Connects employers with the LGBT community
- Out and Equal: Main focus is to help connect organizations that support and value diversity and inclusion within the workplace
- Out for Work: Supports LGBTQ students as they transition into the workplace
- Pro Gay Jobs: A site dedicated to helping LGBTQ candidates find positions with companies committed to diversity in the workplace
- Indeed.com and Idealist.org: Search jobs using keywords like “LGBTQ” or “gender” to find LGBTQ+ work and organizations
