Career Resources
Meet Your Career Education Team

Samantha “Sam” Holtshouser
Career Education Manager
College of Agricultural Sciences
Email: Sam.Holtshouser@colostate.edu
Office: (970) 491-8029
Please schedule an appointment with Sam Holtshouser through Handshake or email Sam with your questions at Sam.Holtshouser@colostate.edu
15%
of all jobs are found through job boards
85%
of all jobs are found through networking
Current Jobs and Internship Listings
- Did you know only 15% of all jobs are found through job boards?
- 85% through networking.
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Career Resources News
Plant adaptation vision talks will bring global thought leaders to CSU
Each speaker will discuss the cutting-edge approaches they are taking to understand the process of plant adaptation and better exploit it in crop breeding for improved resilience and sustainability in agriculture.
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CSU innovators, educators, researchers and rising stars honored among DBJ’s 2023 Who’s Who in Agriculture
Honorees include Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences James Pritchett, who is the 2023 Denver Business Journal's Who's Who in Agriculture Trailblazer, and agricultural education and equine science student Jo Smeby, who will receive the Rising Star award.
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Links to Career and Job Boards
Browse links to resources sorted by academic department.
Agriculture Internships
- Handshake is the job/internships board for Colorado State University.
- Ag Careers is a leader in posting positions in the Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology industries.
- JOBS in Horticulture has an internship & assistantship category in their job search for jobs in the Green Industry.
- Green Industry.com pulls job postings from multiple websites in the Horticulture, Landscape, Turf, and Nursery Industry.
- Camp.com is on online source for summer camp employment opportunities.
- Farm Credit is a leader in agricultural credit.
- Cargill is a leader in nourishing people and has a variety of professional, production, and university track career paths.
- Ag Job Network– New social network for connecting job seekers and employers with a grassroots approach.
- Dude.com is a resource for dude ranches in North America.
- Idealist.org– Internships at Non Profit organizations.
- United States Department of Agriculture internships.
- American Horse Publication Internship program.
- Kentucky Equine Management Internship (KEMI) program places students on Thoroughbred farms in Kentucky.
- Turf Internships is a leading source for internships in the Turf.
- Pork Information Gateway (PIG) is a new program offered by the US Pork Center of Excellence and encourages students to pursue a career in the pork.
- Farm Link Montana is a free, searchable database of current listings for jobs, internships, and land opportunities in Montana. It features a searchable map of farms and ranches across the state hiring for the upcoming season. Learn about each operation and apply to multiple jobs at once with just one application. Opportunities range from organic veggies, wheat, and pulses to hops, dairy and more.
General Career Resources
- http://www.careeronestop.org/
- http://www.e–net/resume/tips.html
- http://www.onetonline.org/ O*NET Online is a great resource for researching occupational
- quintcareers.com has general career resources and examples.
- http://www.careerkey.org/
- http://www.aps.org/careers/guidance/index.cfm has resources for Physicists and Scientist
- GoGovernment is a great resource for opportunities and information on jobs in the Federal Government
- Brazen Careerist– Career-related blogs and more
- All Top– all the top career news
Colorado Job Boards
- CareerRAM is the centralized job board at CSU for all jobs and internships. This is available to CSU students and alumni.
- CareerShift is a resource that pulls job announcements from public job boards and employer websites and puts it in a convenient location. You can also research companies or contacts by geographic To register use the group code.
- ConnectingColorado is a resource that is used by ALL of the Colorado Workforce Centers.
- Colorado State University employment information.
- State Jobs in Colorado.
- Denver Post jobs
- Larimer County Website
- City of Fort Collins Human Resources
- Larimer County Workforce Center
- City of Greeley
- University of Northern Colorado employment
- Connecting Colorado– is sponsored by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
Federal Job Boards
- USA GOV is the most comprehensive website for employment in the federal government.
- USDA Agricultural Research Service- Careers Page
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Agricultural Education & Cooperative Extension
- School Spring is a resource for education positions including elementary and high schools.
- Higher Education Jobs is a great resource for post-secondary community colleges and universities.
- National Job Bank has jobs in Extension, Outreach, Research and Higher Education.
- Wyoming Cooperative Extension
Animal Science Job Boards
- North America Meat Institute provides industry career information.
- Animal Science Jobs– Talented Professionals from Field to Fork.
- American Veterinary Medicine Association
- American Meat Science Association
- Sure Champ
Equine Science Job Boards
- Horse Jobs com Post a horse job, find a horse job.
- EQUIstaff offers employment services including job postings in the Equine Industry.
- EQUIMAX where jobs and horse people find each other.
- Camp com is on online source for summer camp employment opportunities.
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Job Boards
- JOBS in Horticulture has jobs in the Horticulture and Green Industry.
- Horticultural Jobs covers the entire industry.
- Hire Horticulture
- Architecture Crossing
- Landscape Institute
- Green Industry Jobs.com pulls job postings from multiple websites including:
- LandscapeJobs.com
- AgIndustryJobs.com
- IrrigationJobs.com
- TreeCarejobs.com
- Turfjobs.com
- Nurseryjobs.com
- GolfCourseCareers.com
- LightingJobs.com
- GrapeJobs.com
- EnvironmentalIndustryJobs.com
- SafetyIndustryJobs.com
- StormJobs.Net
- MecanicCareers.com
- WasteIndustryJobs.com
- BilingualCareers.com
- PropertyManagementCareers.com
- TrabajoUSA.com
- SpanishSpeakingJobs.comMaintenanceJobs.net
- Turf com for Turf positions and resources
- American Society for Enology and Viticulture– It’s all about the grapes and wine
- American Society for Horticultural Science
Soil and Crop Sciences/BSPM Job Boards
- The National Center for Appropriate Technology– local solutions for a sustainable future.
- Joe Produce
- American Society of Agronomy (ASA)
- Weed Science Society of America
- American Phytopathological Society (APS)is an international scientific organization devoted to the study of plant diseases and their control.
- American Society of Plant Biologists
- Entomological Society of America (ESA)