Career Connect is the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s initiative to create more meaningful, paid internships for students and build stronger connections between campus and community. We partner with employers who are committed to offering high-impact internship opportunities that prepare students for career success.
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Join the Career Connect Employer Network
UNO is proud to collaborate with employers who:
- Offer paid internships or work-based learning experiences
- Mentor and support student learning and development
- Want to build a talent pipeline through early engagement with students
Become a Career Connect Partner
Complete a brief form to join our network and connect with UNO’s Career Services team.
Career Connect Symposium
Held every fall, the Career Connect Symposium celebrates student success in internships and highlights best practices in experiential learning.
Whether you're an employer, faculty member, or student, the symposium is your opportunity to learn, connect, and grow.
Registration coming soon!
Internship Awards
We’re proud to recognize excellence in internships through the Career Connect Awards, announced each year at the Symposium.
Student Awards
- Rising Star Intern – Recognizing emerging talent
- Community Impact Intern – Making a difference through service
- Innovation in Action – Creative problem solving on the job
- Intern of the Year – Exceptional performance and leadership
Employer Awards
- Outstanding Internship Program – Creating exceptional learning experiences
- Supervisor of the Year – Championing student growth
Nominations open on National Intern Day – July 31, 2025.
Current Career Connect Employers
We’re grateful to our partners for investing in Maverick talent. Current Career Connect employers include:
- 10 Roads Express
- 3E
- ACCESSbank
- ADS BIOTEC INC
- Aflac
- AIM Institute
- Airlite Plastics
- Alvine Engineering
- American Foods Group, LLC
- American National Bank
- Applied Underwriters
- Archdiocese of Omaha
- Assurity Life Insurance Company
- Bailey Lauerman
- Baird Holm LLP
- Bank of the West
- Baxter Auto
- BCom Solutions
- Belcan, LLC
- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
- Benesch
- Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
- Black Hills Energy
- Bland & Associates, P.C.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska
- Bluestem Energy Solutions
- Boys & Girls Club of the Midlands
- Boys Town
- Brownell Talbot School
- Carson Group
- Cedar Bluffs Public School
- Centris Federal Credit Union
- Charles Schwab & Company
- Children's Nebraska
- City of La Vista
- City+Ventures
- Client Resources, Inc.
- College World Series of Omaha, Inc.
- Completely KIDS
- Conagra Brands
- Cordova
- Core Bank
- Cox Communications
- CQuence Health
- CRCC
- Crete Carrier Corporation
- CSG
- DatabaseUSA.com
- DeBoer & Associates, PC
- Deloitte
- DMSi Software
- Douglas Country Juvenile Probation
- Douglas County Sherriff's Office
- Dundee Bank
- Elkhorn Public Schools Foundation
- Enterprise Holdings
- Enterprise Precast Concrete
- Farm Bureau Financial Services
- Farm Credit Services of America
- Farris Engineerign
- Fastenal Company
- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
- Find the Why!
- Firespring
- Fiserv
- FitzMark
- Five Nines
- FNBO
- Frankel Zacharia, LLC
- Gallup
- Goodwill Omaha
- Greater Omaha Chamber
- Green Plains Inc.
- Gryzen Financial Group, LLC
- Hawkins Construction Company
- HDR, Inc.
- Heartland Family Service
- Home Instead, Inc.
- HR Systems, Inc.
- HUB International Great Plains
- Hudl
- Hurrdat
- Hy-Vee
- Interpublic Group
- Jet Linx Aviation
- Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.A.
- Kidwell
- Kiewit
- Lamp Rynearson
- Latino Center of the Midlands
- Lincoln Financial Group
- Lindsay Corporation
- Lozier
- LRS Healthcare
- Lutz
- Malone Healthcare
- Maxwell
- Medical Solutions, LLC
- Mercer-Zimmerman, Inc.
- Metropolitan Utilities District
- Mid-America Council, Boy Scouts of America
- Mosaic
- Mutual of Omaha
- National Indemnity Company
- Nebraska Defense Research Corporation
- Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS)
- Nebraska Department of Economic Development
- Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services
- Nebraska Department of Revenue
- Nebraska Department of Transportation
- Nebraska Office of the CIO
- Nebraska Public Power District
- Nebraska Supreme Court
- North End Teleservices, LLC
- Northern Natural Gas
- Northrop Grumman Corporation
- Northwestern Mutual of Nebraska
- OBI Creative
- Olsson
- Omaha Performing Arts
- Omaha Public Power District (OPPD)
- Omaha Summer Arts Festival
- Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency
- OpenSky Policy Institute
- Orion Advisor Solutions
- Partnership 4 Kids
- Pattern
- Physicians Mutual Insurance/ Physicians Life Insurance
- Quantum Workplace
- Rabble Mill
- RSM US LLP
- Sandhills Global, Inc.
- Scoular
- Seventy Five North
- Signature Performance Inc.
- Sojern
- Spiral Solutions and Technologies, Inc.
- Spreetail
- Streck
- Tenaska
- The Weitz Company
- Thrasher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Omaha District
- U.S. Bank
- Union Pacific Railroad
- United States Strategic Command
- United Way of the Midlands
- University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Valmont Industries, Inc.
- Wells Fargo
- Werner Enterprises
- Women's Center for Advancement
- Woodhouse Auto Family
- Yahoo
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