Join the Office of Student Employment in celebrating our student employees and supervisors this National Student Employment Week, held between April 4th and 8th!
Throughout the Week
Here are our ideas for (free and low-cost) ways supervisors can show their …
The Burwell Center for Career Achievement opened its doors to students in September, ushering in a new era for DU students and alumni. Within the new building, the most recent of the Denver Advantage campus transformation, undergraduate …
The 2020 Faculty Career Champions have been selected! For the past four years, Career & Professional Development has asked students what faculty members have made a significant contribution to their career and professional development path. This year over 400 students …
No matter which holidays you celebrate in the wintertime, if any, you might feel an increase in stress this time of year. With final exams at school, coworkers out of the office, a slow job search season, family and friends …
By Kyle Inselman
Kyle InselmanDirector, Alumni Career & Professional Development
Recently, I was making a 17-mile trek across Arvada when our guide brought us to a halt, stretched out his hand and presented us with a brown paper bag. Within this seemingly innocuous container was a collection of several pieces …
By Carolyn Sommers
Carolyn SommersAssociate Director, Serves Undergraduate CAHSS & Exploring Students
Many working parents struggle with the equally important responsibilities of raising a family and providing for them. There is a fundamental need—and for many parents, a real want and desire—to work. However, many simultaneously feel a pull towards home and …
By Grace Goodman
Grace GoodmanAssistant Director, Alumni Career & Professional Development
Are you considering a career change? Unlike finding a new job, this might mean leaving an industry, as in shifting from journalism to wealth management, or moving to an entirely different position in your company, such as transferring from procurement …
By Cindy Hyman
Cindy HymanDirector of Alumni Career & Professional Development
From drafting correspondence to performing legal research, the life of a paralegal can be quite different from one day to the next. Despite these differences, most paralegals do a combination of the following things.
What do you do when you start working on a new resume? Let me guess—you look up a template and start filling in the blanks, maybe copy/pasting from a resume you’ve used before. It’s a common strategy, but one with …
By Kyle Inselman
Kyle InselmanDirector, Alumni Career & Professional Development
It doesn’t matter how brilliant an entrepreneur or skilled an artisan you are, without some basic financial knowledge, even the best business ideas can falter and fail. Here we offer some key vocabulary words courtesy of Investopedia.com and Salary.com to …
By Grace Goodman
Grace GoodmanAssistant Director, Alumni Career & Professional Development