Sponsorships

Sponsorships

With over 20,000 job and internship postings live each day on Handshake, it's essential for employers looking for top talent to invest in making their company standout among the crowd. Our partnership and sponsorship opportunities do just that.

Employers Home Connect with Students Posting Jobs & Internships

NOTE: Employers interested in sponsorships must be actively recruiting on our Handshake portal for consideration.

My Career Path Sponsorship

$1,000–$10,000

My Career Path is an innovative online tool that empowers Iowa students to take the next steps in their career journey. An average of 1500 students across all academic years engage with My Career Path each semester. Students visit My Career Path to receive personalized suggestions, track their progress, and feel confident in their career preparation. Sponsorship provides you with targeted exposure to students based on their career interests. Multiple advertising and engagement opportunities are available within the tool. Options include:

$1,000 Featured Employer ($500 for Black & Gold Sponsors)
- Your organization’s logo and profile suggested to all students within a specific career community. A limited number of logos will be featured per community making sure your organization is prominently displayed on student's home pages
- Option to add on additional communities for $500 each
- Organization spotlight in the My Career Path newsletter sent to all users quarterly
- Social media marketing and promotion of your organization via Pomerantz Career Center social media accounts
- Deadlines: July 31^st (Fall Semester) and December 31^st (Spring Semester)
$10,000 Pathways Partner
- All Featured Employer benefits plus:
  - Your organization’s logo and profile suggested to all Iowa students within all career communities for the full academic year
  - Individualized consultation to develop integration opportunities (e.g. learning modules, spotlights, etc.) tailored to your organization (up to three content integrations per year)
  - Your logo and a link to your organization on the Pomerantz Career Center website as a featured employer
- Deadline: June 15^th

Sponsor a Student Experience

$1,000–$50,000

The Hawkeye Experience Grant is a career readiness initiative that supports defraying the costs of students’ unpaid or underpaid summer experiences (internships in U.S. or abroad, research and creative scholarship, and community service), especially for students who would not be able to participate without scholarship support. Gifts to support grants are a great opportunity to build brand awareness while aligning with your organization’s philanthropy goals.

Donors could fund one student’s summer experience or multiple, dependent upon their giving goals and ability. See where past funds have made an impact in students’ lives.

$1,000 defrays moving costs to an internship out of state or out of the country

$2,000 defrays living costs for a half-time experience

$4,000 defrays living costs for a full-time experience

In conversations with the grant coordinator, sponsors may preference what type of experience they want to support (ex. unpaid internship in a non-profit/government, underpaid internship at a for-profit, unpaid internship abroad, unpaid research or creative scholarship, or community service). Dependent upon that year’s applicants, sponsors may also preference field, geographic location, or area of study that aligns with their philanthropy goals (for example – a student interning in social services related fields, a student studying abroad, or a student studying public health, etc.), but ultimately the goal will be to meet the need of as many UI students as possible.

Gifts are recognized with donor names displayed on scholarship webpage and in group orientations

Gifts are recognized with donor names provided to recipient with funding offer

Opportunity for you to support the next generation of talent

Opportunity to preference giving to align with workforce development needs or your philanthropy’s areas of focus

Deadline/Timing: Annual deadline of January 25

For more information contact: Jennifer Noyce

Black & Gold Sponsorship

$1,500 each

This opportunity provides you with greater exposure to students on the Iowa campus prior to and at the Job and Internship Fairs – the University’s largest Career Fairs of the year. In addition to complementary parking and lunch for all representatives, your organization will receive the following benefits:

Premier table location in first floor ballroom of Iowa Memorial Union with piping and draping
Your logo and a link to your organization on the Pomerantz Career Center website as a featured employer for 6 months
Premiere interview location for the day after the fair
Social media marketing and promotion of the organization via Pomerantz Career Center social media accounts

For more info contact: Jo Halsch.

Deadlines:
July 31 (Fall Fair)
December 31 (Spring Fair)

Host an In-Person or Virtual Career Trek

$500–$1,500 (possible in-kind)

Career Treks are a career exploration initiative that allows students to travel to various cities in order to gain insight into career fields of interest. This is a great opportunity to gain exposure among the student body, market your internship and full-time job opportunities, and educate students on your hiring process and timeline. Sponsor a trip for a group of University of Iowa students to visit your city, tour your office space, learn about your organization and network with your professionals. Your sponsorship offers the following benefits:

Company logos and information prominently incorporated in all promotional materials and on the event webpage
Opportunity for you to showcase your office space and educate interested students on the benefits of working at your organization, available opportunities, and your hiring process/timeline
Opportunity to engage 20+ students through interactive activities, speaker series and networking/recruiting sessions with team members and alumni
Note: There is 1 sponsorship opportunity per semester

Students may visit additional organizations in addition to yours while on the same Trek.

Deadline/Timing: Ongoing

For more information contact: Alaysia McAtee

Online Employer Showcase

$1,000

Have your organization's logo featured on the our homepage and on our Featured Employers webpage all year long with this sponsorship. A limited amount of logos will be featured giving prominence to those there. Our website attracts more than 250,000 visits each year from across the globe, in particular from University of Iowa students.

*Black & Gold Sponsors get featured automatically for 6 months as part of their package.

Deadline/Timing: Ongoing

For more information contact: Nathan Scheib

Career Cafe Sponsorship

$500 per semester

(1 year maximum)

This opportunity provides you with continuous exposure to students (3,000+ per semester) visiting the Pomerantz Career Center. Sponsorship will go toward supplies for students to enjoy coffee, tea or cocoa as they visit the center for work on their job search, resume and cover letter or meet with an advisor. Your sponsorship offers the following benefits:

Your logo prominently displayed in the Career Cafe
Coffee sleeves with your logo included
Note: There is 1 sponsorship opportunity per semester (Sponsorships have been fulfilled until Spring 2024)

For more information and to be put on the list contact: Nathan Scheib

Deadline: Ongoing