Contact the Office of Career and Professional Development

West Texas A&M University's Office of Career and Professional Development provides a referral service and makes no particular recommendations regarding employers. We make no representations or guarantees about positions posted by this office. We are not responsible for safety, wages, working conditions, or any other aspect of off-campus employment. Students are urged to perform due diligence in researching employers when applying for or accepting private off-campus employment.

A legitimate job will NEVER require you to deposit or pay any money from your personal accounts. Be aware of scammers!

WTAMU is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability or national origin.

Because our interviewers are volunteering their time to assist our students, we need to be respectful of their time.

If you must cancel, do so as soon as you know you cannot attend, HOWEVER, you must let us know by 5:00 p.m. two business days before the interview is scheduled. For example, if you have a mock interview scheduled for Monday, you must cancel by 5:00 p.m. the Thursday before. If your interview is on Wednesday, you must cancel by 5:00 p.m. the Monday before, etc. Up until this deadline, you can log in to Handshake and remove yourself from the schedule. After that you must call our office to cancel.

If you cancel late - or do not show up on time or dressed appropriately - for a scheduled interview, you will be required to meet with a career and professional development staff member where you bring the letter of apology you've written to the recruiter with whom you were scheduled to interview. Until you write this letter and have it reviewed by our staff member, you will be blocked from participating in Career and Professional Development activities, including on campus interviews, mock interviews, applying for jobs through Handshake and attending our events.

Although we understand that emergencies happen, there are no exceptions to this policy. This is not meant to be punitive but rather to instill and promote professional behavior.

In order to assist as many students as possible with clothing from the professional clothing closet, each person is limited to one outfit each semester. The Office of Career and Professional Development will track student use in Handshake so that there is an accurate record on file.

West Texas A&M University's Office of Career and Professional Development posts on-campus, part-time, and full-time positions as well as internships in Handshake. Because our mission as an institution is for our students to persist academically and complete their degrees in a reasonable amount of time, all full-time permanent positions posted must require or prefer at least a bachelor's degree. Seasonal roles, i.e., summer or holiday, are accepted without the degree requirement. 

Third-party recruiters are not allowed to connect with our office on Handshake. The only exception to this is when the third-party recruiter represents one organization and is their exclusive recruiting source. These exceptions must be approved by the director or their designee.

Career and Professional Development is happy to assist employers interested in hiring West Texas A&M University students for part-time and post-graduation full-time jobs as well as for internships reserve a table in our student center or other appropriate campus location. In order to effectively organize and promote these tables, we will assist each employer once per semester. If your organization wishes to recruit on campus more than one day in a semester outside of our scheduled job fairs, you are welcome to reach out to the JBK Information Desk at 806.651.2394 to inquire about renting space for additional days.