Career Peer Mentorship

Texas Career Engagement offers multiple ways for undergraduate students to have career conversations directly with peers. We offer a unique career peer program—the Longhorn Career Peer Mentor Program—to support UT students as they explore and navigate their unique career development journeys. Below, you will find overviews of each program, services provided and how you can get involved.

Longhorn Career Peers

Longhorn Career Peers (LCPs) are trained and supervised paraprofessionals who provide career assistance to other undergraduate students through Texas Career Engagement. Responsibilities of LCPs include critiquing resumes, conducting practice interviews, assisting peers with job search strategies, promoting Texas Career Engagement through tabling and presentations, as well as serving as a peer mentor in the Longhorn Career Peer Mentoring Program. Hiring for LCPs takes place each spring and recruitment for mentees occur at the end of each semester.

Longhorn Career Peer Mentor Program

The Longhorn Career Peer Mentor Program is a 12-week career and professional development program is tailored for first-and second-year students at UT. We highly encourage students from underrepresented and marginalized identities to apply. Applications open at the end of each semester.

Each mentee is matched with a Longhorn Career Peer Mentor for weekly meetings on a range of career topics. At the end of the program, each mentee will have crafted a professional resume and cover letter, developed a personal pitch, completed a practice interview, and become proficient in strategically navigating HookedIn and HireUTexas. Mentees also participate in seven group sessions to discuss and learn about diversity, equity and inclusion topics tied to career development with all members of the program cohort.

The goal of the program is to empower each mentee to accomplish their individual career goals while building a strong connection, community and sense of belonging on the Forty Acres.