Career Counseling
Your future as a vet is wide open. Wonderfully so. Your career is yours to create. At Penn Vet we’ll help you to shape it. Crafting your career begins here.
Veterinary medicine is changing, becoming broader. As the rise of the One Health movement demonstrates, its relevance to human health is being recognized as never before. The potential of our profession feels limitless.
Yours does, too. At Penn Vet we collaborate with our students to help them reach their full potential. Your future can be as fulfilling as you imagine it to be. We’re not just here to guide you; we’re here to propel you into a career that not only fits but also evolves with our changing profession and world. We invite you to expand your horizons and explore the endless possibilities ahead.
And through Penn Vet Career Services, we’ll connect you to resources, employers, alumni, and our digital employment board.
Achieving your goals
Career Services
Penn Vet Career Services is open to students from all four years of their veterinary education, in all stages of career exploration.
The veterinary profession has evolved dramatically over the last decade, thanks in large part to developing technology. Job possibilities have grown proportionately.
At Career Services, we provide tools to help you choose the career path that’s right for you, however you imagine it to be.
We don’t match our students with jobs, internships or externships. Instead, We offer a wide range of resources, services, workshops, and panels to help you achieve your goals
What Career Services Offers
- Résumé Writing Workshop: We’ll help you create a stand-out résumé that will work for you.
- Presentation Workshops focused on cover letters and interview skills.
- Mock Interview: If you’ve never been in a real job interview, the interview for the job of your dreams, here’s where you can learn how to ask the right questions, come up with the best answers, and manage your stress level with poise and confidence.
- Panel to demystify the matching process for internships: It’s your fourth year and you’ve applied for an internship. Now everything rides on the matching process. False! You have all sorts of options available. Hosted by Dr. Evelyn Galban, this panel is a great resource to clarify the VRMP matching process.
- Alumni Network: We can help you build a network of contacts through our Alumni Relations Office. We have alumni throughout the United States and the world in all sorts of fields, including industry, clinical care, academics, and government. We’ll help you make the right connections.
- We connect you with valuable resources through collaborations with alumni, employers and community partners.
Meet Caryn Stivelman, Director of Career Advancement
“I collaborate with students in achieving their career goals by enhancing their professional development skills, conducting mock interviews to ensure they are fully prepared for real-world interview scenarios, and offering guidance on exploring diverse opportunities within the veterinary field. My goal is to help them make informed decisions, maximize their potential, and present the best version of themselves.”
Additional Resources
Penn Vet Employment Board
Penn Vet manages the Veterinary Employment Bulletin Board, which provides information on job postings by area of specialty, region, or the type of employer (e.g., government, academia, private practice, industry). It’s a great way to start thinking forward about your options after graduation.
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Salary Estimator
This is a tool for veterinarians in their first six years after graduation from veterinary school.
Licensure Requirements
- Pennsylvania’s information and guidelines
- AVMA State veterinary regulatory board information
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , read a breakdown of veterinary employment data in the United States.
