University Career Services (UCS) is pleased to announce important changes in the delivery and administration of Placement File Services. These changes, designed to enhance the quality of services to University of Houston students and alumni, are introduced following a series of consultations with key UH faculty, staff, students, and alumni. As of September, 2004, UCS is affiliated with Interfolio, a service provider that specializes in online management of placement/credential files. A credential file, or placement file, is a collection of documents showing a job candidate's or graduate/professional school applicant's academic and professional credentials.

Interfolio is now available to University of Houston students and alumni. Interfolio is an economical and convenient way, for example, for a Ph.D. candidate to send academic credentials to a search committee, an undergraduate to send application materials to graduate and professional schools, or a teaching candidate to apply for a teaching position. Generally, credential file will not be needed for a candidate applying a position in business or industry. In these fields, letters of recommendation, if requested, are handled directly between the job candidates and the employer.

Interfolio's Internet service allows the candidate to build an internet portfolio - a complete file of all credentials, including:

Confidential letters of recommendation Resume and/or Curriculum Vitae Writing samples Dissertation abstract

Supervising teacher evaluation Student & peer evaluations Transcripts - from all of your degrees

• 24 hour access: Interfolio is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world.
• Targeted, customized deliveries: You can specify a unique set of documents for each delivery. And you can specify the order in which your materials are packaged so your presentation is powerful and persuasive.
• Low Cost: Since you need only send one delivery to each position, you save money and headaches; it's cheaper to send a 30 page delivery through Interfolio than to go to Kinko's and the US Post Office. Interfolio charges only $15 to set up your account for an entire year and $5 per application forwarded.
• Self managed files: With Interfolio you have control of your portfolio. You don't have to rely on others to make intelligent decisions about what documents are delivered on your behalf.
• Lightning-Fast Delivery: Deliveries go out within one business day of your request. If you need to meet a deadline, they can express deliveries the same day (as long as you make the request by 2 PM EST).

UCS career counselors will continue to serve UH students and alumni in the preparation and use of credential files. In addition, UCS staff will serve with Interfolio as co-custodians of the new service. If you have any questions about your file, feel free to contact your career counselor.

Click here if you are a student or alumnus and ALREADY have established a UCS placement/credential file.

Click here if you are a student or alumnus and wish to open a NEW credential file account and have not established a Placement File with UCS.

Click here for detailed instructions on how to submit a letter of recommendation via Interfolio.

Frequently Asked Questions

Contact for more information

If you have further questions regarding the new online credential file service, do not hesitate to contact UCS or Interfolio directly:

UCS: Tel: (713)743-5100 Email: ucs@uh.edu

Interfolio Customer Services: By email to: help@interfolio.com By phone toll free: (877) 77-FOLIO (36546) Phone: (202) 223-3358 Fax: (267) 295-8740