UVA Career Center provides several resources for students seeking jobs and internship opportunities:
- Feedback on resumes and cover letters
- Career assessment to identify interests
- Networking strategies and tips
- Job and internship opportunities
- Mock interviews
- Graduate school advising
- and much more!
Looking for a food systems-related job? Check out these resources below:
- Good Food Jobs a job search engine designed to link people in search of meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm, and intellect. Job-seekers can search using specific criteria and have job opportunities emailed to them.
- COMFOODJOBS an announcement service for employment, internships, and similar opportunities across the (sustainable) food system spectrum.
- Farm and Food Jobs a source for job seekers and prospective employers in agriculture and food related industries. Job seekers can receive new postings by email.
- Orion Grassroots Jobsource a nation-wide network for connecting with green jobs. Including, but not limited to, farming and food-related jobs.
- Green Collar Jobs Board jobs board for the Green Collar Jobs Blog, listing several green collar job-seeking resources.
- USDA Jobs positions available at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- ATTRA: Sustainable Farming Internships and Apprenticeships directory of on-the-job learning opportunities in sustainable and organic agriculture for farms in the U.S. and its territories.
- NYFC Jobs and Apprenticeships Message Board an online forum for jobs and apprenticeships. The message board also allows response posts, letting you put up reviews, comments and more.
- Fair Trade Jobs Board job listings posted by the Fair Trade Federation
- Stockbridge School of Agriculture Career-Net an agriculture job-posting list from the UMass at Amherst, with nation-wide postings.
- Sustainable Agriculture Jobs, Internships and Apprenticeships a Facebook group to post professional farm, food and food system career development opportunities
- Rodale Institute's Farmer Connect a moderated classified page hosted by Facebook with agricultural job listings.
- Land Jobs Stuff a Google Group bulletin board for land, jobs, and agricultural stuff.
- Eager Farmer a nation-wide listing of job opportunities. Cheap to post positions, free to apply.
- North American Food Systems Network Job Listing Page NAFSN aggregates (daily) food systems related job opportunities from a dozen green job sites as well as COMFOODJOBS email list. Farm apprenticeships are not included. This will eventually become a NAFSN member-only resource, but for now it is open to anyone.
- Food + Tech Jobs is a database of jobs available nationwide for tech, business, design, sales, marketing, operations and PR jobs at food companies.