Launch Your Comet Career Early
A private, gamified roadmap for Freshmen & Sophomores. Explore the underclassman pathways, map your skills to the 8 NACE career competencies, and turn a part-time job into a resume-ready win, all before your first internship search.
Everything you do here stays on your device. No account, no tracking, nothing sent to a server.
Your readiness roadmap
Check off what you finish. Progress saves automatically on this device.
Freshman Explorer
0/0Sophomore Builder
0/0Skill Map: the 8 NACE competencies
Rate yourself 1–3 on each. Anything below 3 reveals three quick action items built for underclassmen.
What this told you
Career Center resources for thisInstant STAR Resume Helper
That part-time job is resume gold. Tap a job below to see a common phrase transform into a metric-driven, professional bullet.
Your wins, in your words
Write down what you actually did, while you still remember the details. Two years from now this is your resume. Everything stays on this device.
Saved wins (0)
Nothing here yet. Add the first one above. A shift at work counts. A group project counts.
You did not start from nothing.
- • Paste your wins into a resume. They are already written in the right shape.
- • Pick the skill with your lowest rating and make it next semester's focus.
- • Junior year is when internship applications get real. You are going in with receipts.
Where to take this next
This app tracks what you did. The Career Center is where you turn it into an internship. Everything below is a real UT Dallas resource.
Do this first
Activate 12twenty
UT Dallas moved off Handshake. Jobs, internships, events and career appointments now run through 12twenty, and you log in with your NetID. Handshake access ends 31 August 2026, so pull anything you still need out of it.
Set up 12twentyBook a person
Resume review, job search strategy, or just figuring out a direction. Booked through 12twenty.
The Fall 2026 All Majors Job and Internship Fair runs 9 and 10 September. Worth going even if you are not applying yet.
Use the library
Resume and cover letter guides, interview practice, negotiation. Free.
The Career Center's own year-by-year plan. This app is built to sit alongside it.
How to actually run a search, including rising-sophomore programs.
Workplace skills most people are expected to already have.
Links open the UT Dallas Career Center site. This app is not affiliated with it.
The whole point
Your resume bullets
Keep adding as you go. The students who have something to say in a junior-year interview are the ones who wrote it down when it happened.