Welcome to the Career Development Center

Our office provides a number of services and resources to help students in their career decision-making and job search plans. Please read our special note to alumni.

Our goal is to help students discover who they are and how that translates into career opportunities.  As students learn about careers and begin their professional journeys, we strive to help them discover personal authenticity and fulfillment in the world of work.

Our focus is clear – to help students find careers where they find themselves.

Here are some reasons why Loyola University New Orleans is a valuable recruiting source for you:

Call to moral and ethical excellence

Steeped in the more than 450-year-old Jesuit tradition of educating the whole person, Loyola University New Orleans’ education is not limited to books and static academic resources.  Our students receive classroom and real-life lessons in moral decision-making, ethics, social justice, service, and other character-forming activities.  These young men and women can bring this vision, knowledge, and tools to your organization’s culture, values, and business goals.

Experienced talent pool, even for entry-level positions

Internships, service-learning, real-life project-based assignments, leadership roles, and national competitions are fervently encouraged for many of the majors.  Business students are required to complete at least one meaningful internship to finish their degrees. This focus on experiential education provides opportunities for Loyola students to apply the theories they learn in the classroom in real-world settings.   And this application practice provides employers with experienced young talent.

Ethnically diverse student body with an intercultural understanding

Loyola students work on teams, befriend, and experience other students from many different cultures.  Additionally, our emphasis on multicultural understanding in education and co-curricular programming encourages students of all walks to learn about others.  This develops a talent pool with the tools for working in diverse organizational environments.

Consistently recognized for excellence and value

·        Ranked for the last 18 years among the Top 10 Southern region schools and 5th Best Master's University in the South in the 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report.

·        Listed in the top seven percent of the 1,500 colleges and universities ranked by Barron's.

·        Ranked 259 out of 569 on the Forbes.com inaugural list of America’s Best Colleges.

·        Sited in Princeton Review's annual list of the Best 368 Colleges, the College of Social Sciences was named one of the Great Schools for Communications Majors and Great Schools for Journalism Majors.

·        The School of Mass Communication’s Bateman Team has placed first in the national Public Relations Student Society of America competition five times since 2000.

·        Ranked among the nation’s Best 296 Business Schools by the Princeton Review.

·        President Clinton personally recognized three Loyola students, Elliot Sanchez, Nicole Kone, and Aaron Kirsh with an outstanding service commitment award at the inaugural 2008 Clinton Global Initiative University event.

Among our services are free on-line job and internship postings through EMPLOYOLA, on-campus recruiting, career fairs, class presentations, and much more.