Welcome, Class of 2029 — Start Designing Your Tufts Journey

Starting college is a time of discovery, possibility, and new beginnings. At the Tufts Career Center, we believe your first year is the perfect time to begin designing a life and career that aligns with your values, interests, and goals.

Career & Life Design is about curiosity, creativity, and connection. You don’t need to have all the answers right now—just a willingness to explore. Whether you’re thinking about a campus job, updating your resume, or wondering how your interests might shape your future, we’re here to help you take that first step.

Special Opportunities for First Year Students

This course is a great intro for first year students eager to getting started on their career journeys. It’s a half semester and runs for the first 7 weeks of both fall and spring semester. In this course, you’ll create a plan to kick off your career exploration while at Tufts. Find the course in SIS to register.

Unsure about how your major choice will impact your future plans, job options, and life after Tufts? Save the date for our annual event where local alumni talk about how they chose their majors and how it has influenced their career paths within different industries. Click the icon to sign up to attend.

Visit The Career Center

Start Here! Drop by the Career Lab to get an orientation to the Career Center. You don’t need an appointment – just stop by. Open 5 days a week, Career Labs are the perfect place to get answers to quick questions and feedback on resumes and cover letters. Run by Career Fellows, highly trained peer career advisors, the Career Lab is designed to foster a sense of belonging & community and put students at ease. View the full Career Lab schedule.

For more in depth conversations and guidance students can schedule one-on-one appointments with Career Advisors using Handshake. Topics addressed in appointments include: exploring careers, majors, developing career goals, job and internship search strategies, interviews, building a network, using LinkedIn, and more!

What To Expect in Your First Appointment

“I wasn’t sure what to expect from my first Career Center appointment, but it turned out to be one of the most helpful conversations I had during my first semester. My advisor didn’t expect me to have a plan—instead, they asked thoughtful questions about what I enjoy, what I’m curious about, and what I might want to try. I left feeling more confident and excited to explore. It really helped me see that career planning isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about starting the conversation.”
— Jordan C., A25

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • Spend 5-10 minutes looking through our website. Check out our “Learn More About …” content such as Designing Your Career & Life: A 5-Step Planning Process and Exploring Your Interests, Careers & Majors. You’ll get a big-picture sense of how the Career Center helps students at every stage of their Tufts journeys.
  • Start to get to know our Career Communities. Career Communities are a way to connect with people, information, and resources to explore interests and connect to potential opportunities. As a student, you’ll be able to explore and follow any career communities that align with your interests, goals, and career plans. (And adjust those plans as you go!)

You’ll receive 2 messages from the Career Center every week:

  • Career eNews contains your weekly announcements from the Tufts Career Center
  • On TRACC (Tufts Recent Activity in Career Communities) is your customizable industry-specific email. Once at Tufts, you’ll receive more info about how to update your On TRACC preferences so that the content you get each week—blog posts, job/internship listings, events & more—best matches your needs and interests.

Handshake is a Tufts platform for connecting students to internships, jobs, and career events. With Handshake, you will have the opportunity to:

Learn More About Handshake