Career support

We are happy to help you develop your career after university. Whether it's your first job application, a next step within your current line of work, or taking a completely new direction.

About to leave our classrooms in the near future and not sure about your next step? Or have you recently graduated and not quite yet found your niche in the job market? Then good to know that your own faculty's Career Services department can help you with career coaching, advice on your resume or motivation letter and training in job application skills.

For more details on support available at each faculty, please scroll to the bottom of this page.

Use alumni networks to your benefit

Want to exchange ideas with old friends? Or perhaps establish new contacts to take a next step? Then go to Use alumni networks to find other graduates in VU's global alumni community.

Enhance your position in the job market

Are you considering boosting your knowledge and skills? Look here for an overview of our selection of one-time training events, multi-day courses and specialized Master's programmes.

Or acquire new insights during one of the many workshops, lectures, presentations and other events organized at VU Amsterdam. View current calendar here.

Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam ACTA)

Young alumni in need of career guidance can email studieadviseurs@acta.nl.
Faculty of Humanities

During the first year after your graduation, you can take advantage of the career services of the Faculty of Humanities. These include career coaching, advice on your resume and cover letter or help with job interview skills. You can sign up for these sessions at the Humanities Job Teaser page.
If you do not have a JobTeaser account or have a question, please contact careerservices.humanities@vu.nl or read more at Career Services - Faculty of Humanities - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (vu.nl)
Faculty of Medicine

Until a year after graduation, you may contact Career Services for coaching, advice on your resume and cover letter, workshops and other events.
Contact Career Officer Annemieke Smits at a.h.smits@amsterdamumc.nl or read more at Career Services - Faculty of Medicine. (Dutch only)
Faculty of Law
You can use the following services for up to six months after graduation:
- coaching, resume and letter check, job interview practice, LinkedIn check;
- workshops and events;
- access to our career portal containing job postings and career-oriented information such as sample resumes and cover letters, alumni career stories, information on LinkedIn, networking and interviewing. There are also several job application videos to watch.
Read more at
- Student Career Services LAW
- Career Services Faculty of Law
Faculty of Religion and Theology

Faculty offers one-on-one counseling to (young) alumni through coaching sessions. These sessions include a resume-, LinkedIn- and cover letter-check.
Please contact Career Officer Mikkie van der Mik at m.e.van.der.mik2@vu.nl or careerservice.frt@vu.nl.
School of Business and Economics

For the first year after graduation, you can take advantage of SBE Career Services' career services, including career coaching, advice on your resume and cover letter or help with job interview skills, free of charge.
Please contact alumni.sbe@vu.nl or read more at Career Services - School of Business and Economics.
Faculty of Social Sciences

On the faculty's Career Platform, you can find information about individual coaching and career advice, among other things. Read more at Career Services - Faculty of Social Sciences.

Career support

Use alumni networks to your benefit

Enhance your position in the job market

Career support by faculty

Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam ACTA)

Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Religion and Theology

School of Business and Economics

Faculty of Social Sciences