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UCS Registration System: Frequently Asked Questions
If this document doesn't answer your question, please email us at career@unc.edu and we will answer your question as soon as possible. Be sure to include your full name, PID# and current email address in any correspondence.
Why should I register with UCS?
Registering with UCS will allow you have access to many valuable services.
- View on-campus interviewing information and participate in on-campus interview opportunities
- Have your resume sent to prospective employers through UCS' Candidate Referral Service
- View job/internship openings on the UNC Chapel Hill University Career Services' Job/Internship Database
- Access the Carolina Connection, a database of Carolina alumni and friends
- Access other valuable Helpful Links such as CareerSearch and e-leads
- Receive important email messages from UCS relevant to your career interests.
Who is eligible to register with UCS?
- Students must be currently enrolled in a degree-granting
program at UNC-Chapel Hill and must not be in the MBA, MAC, law, medical,
or dental programs. Eligible students are automatically authorized to
register with UCS online. (If you are unable to
register, please review the list of common reasons students are unable
to register or log in.)
We also recommend attending a HOW TO FIND A JOB AFTER GRADUATION or a HOW TO FIND AN INTERNSHIP workshop during the fall or spring semesters.
- Eligible alumni receive service without charge until
six months after graduation from UNC Chapel Hill. After the six month
period has passed, alumni who have been awarded a degree from UNC Chapel
Hill within the past five years can register
to use UCS' services by paying an annual fee of $65.00.
- Students and Alumni receiving MBA, MAC, law, medical, and dental degrees are served by the career offices of those programs, rather than UCS.
How do I register with University Career Services?
You must read and agree to abide by the standards outlined in the Student Agreement for Use of University Career Services before registering or logging into the UCS Registration System.
How do I put my resume online?
Log into the Registration System to upload your resume(s). Click on "resumes & cover letters" and then click on "Add New" follow the prompts to upload your resume.
When you upload a new resume into the system it will go into a Holding Bin for our review. Counselors review resumes daily for basic issues such as complete information and acceptable appearance (although that is not intended to be a substitute for a full resume critique). We strongly recommend that you have your resume critiqued by a UCS counselor before submitting it to the UCS system. You will receive an email informing you of the resume's status after a counselor has reviewed it.
Note: Your resume's formatting may change once you upload it into the system. Be sure to view your resume once you have uploaded it in order to see how it will appear to employers. If it does not look like the way you intended, you will need to correct the problem on your original document (try adjusting your margins and using tabs to align your resume instead of the space bar) and update your resume.
I should be able to register but the system says my PID is not authorized or that my account has been disabled when I try to login. What's the problem?
- You are not a currently eligible
student or recent alumnus.
To register with UCS, students must be currently enrolled in a degree-granting program* at UNC-Chapel Hill and must not be in the MBA, MAC, law, medical, or dental programs. (Students and Alumni receiving MBA, MAC, law, medical, and dental degrees are served by the career offices of those programs, rather than UCS.)
NOTE: UCS does not serve students enrolled through Continuing Studies or Independent Studies. We also do not serve students enrolled in an off-campus studies program, visiting students, or students enrolled in summer school only.
- You are a first time registrant
and did not enter your PID# as BOTH your username and password to initiate
registration. The first time you register, you must enter your
PID# as BOTH your USERNAME and PASSWORD to initiate the registration
page. When entering your PID#, make sure you are entering only the numbers,
no dashes or spaces.
- You have not begun your course of study or registered
for the current semester. We are only able to automatically update
our authorization file a few times a year so your PID may not yet be
authorized. Please send an email to career@unc.edu
with your full name and PID so we can research your situation.
(Students beginning their course of study in the Fall are eligible to use University Career Services after the spring semester has ended, once they have enrolled in their fall classes. We will not do a comprehensive update of our authorization file until mid to late August, so students beginning their course of study in the fall or summer must request authorization individually.)
- You are beginning/resuming your
studies in the summer.
We will be glad to authorize or reactivate your account after the spring semester has ended. We will not do a comprehensive update of our authorization file until August, so you will need to send an email to career@unc.edu with your full name and PID so we can authorize you to register. NOTE: If you plan to graduate in August, but do not receive your degree or enroll in an eligible program in the fall, you will be deactivated at the end of August.
- You are alum within 6 months of
graduation and you were not enrolled in classes the semester you officially
received your degree. You will need to send an email to career@unc.edu
so we can authorize you to register. If you graduated more than 6 months
ago, there is a $65 annual fee to access our systems. Further details
available in our Alumni section.
- Your degree officially posted after
the normal award period for your degree period (e.g. you are a May graduate,
but your degree did not officially post until June). We only
do periodic updates of our authorization file, so if your degree was
offiically posted outside the normal award period, you will need to
let us know so we can authorize you manually. Please send an email to
career@unc.edu so we can authorize you
to register.
- You are a post-doctoral student in chemistry.
You are eligible to register for on-campus interviewing only, during the length of your appointment. Chemistry post-doctoral students are not automatically authorized. Please send an email to career@unc.edu so we can authorize you to register.
- You are a foreign exchange student.
We allow foreign exchange students to register with us to view job postings (although we do not allow you to participate in on-campus interviewing). Foreign exchange students are not automatically authorized. Please send an email to career@unc.edu so we can authorize you to register.
- Your account has been deactivated by UCS.
Please review the Student Account Deactivation policy.
If your PID# or login does not allow you into the
system and you are an eligible student (currently enrolled in a degree-granting
program that UCS serves), please send an email to career@unc.edu
so we can investigate the problem. Please
include your full name and PID in any correspondence so that we can identify
you properly!
Questions, comments? Email us
at ucs@unc.edu
919-962-6507
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