Career Development and Success

Career Development and Success

We build confidence and careers

We’ll help you explore your interests, identify your academic path, secure impressive hands-on experience, and develop the kind of job-search skills that will lead to the career of your choice.

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Professional development

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Shadow for Success

A credit-bearing course that partners students with successful Rider Alumni and community business leaders in a unique learning experience. By matching with a successful professional the student will have the opportunity to observe the daily realities of the actual work environment.

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Enriched Career Experiences

Your path to career success begins long before graduation. That’s why Rider encourages incorporating an Enriched Career Experience into your academic journey and integrating it into your Engaged Learning activities to help achieve your future goals and transform your professional dreams into reality.

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The Cranberry Investment

The Cranberry Investment is a guarantee that Rider students will gain an entry level position or acceptance into a graduate or professional program within six months of graduation, or we’ll provide career coaching and may recommend either nine additional credits of undergraduate coursework in your field of study at no cost or a paid six-month internship.

Career resources

One of the roles of a great education is to prepare you for a fulfilling career. That's why we want to provide you with resources to set you up for success.

Get a job on campus!

Looking for a job on-campus? Find all the important information here on finding and getting started with an on-campus job position.

Information for:

Students

Get your future career started now with unique opportunities just for you.

Employers

We look forward to helping connect you with Rider talent.

Alumni

Our career experts are here to help you accelerate your career.

Parents

Providing you with the the support and tools your student needs to succeed.

Faculty and Staff

Career Services is ready to enhance your classroom experience.

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Rider alumnus Walter Saravia ’14 at HomeFront office

Launch your career

... or maybe you'll even create your own company.

College of Distinction in Career Development

Career and internship opportunities:

ABC-TV
Deloitte
Ernst & Young
ExxonMobil
Johnson & Johnson
NJ State Police Forensic Anthropology Lab
New York Mets
Perelman School of Medicine
NJM Insurance Group

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Facts and figures

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90%

Of bachelor's degree recipients are employed, in graduate school, volunteering or in the military within one year of graduation

97%

Of master's degree recipients are employed, in graduate school, volunteering or in the military within one year of graduation

7

Fifth-year graduate options make it easy to get your master's

200+

Employers participated in Rider's career fairs (2023)

95%

of students expected to complete internships, fieldwork and other enriched career experiences

900+

Rider alumni are CEOs, presidents or organizational leaders

Broncs leading the way

These are the stories of the students, alumni, faculty and community members who make us proud to call ourselves Broncs.

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