Alumni Career & Professional Development

DU offers career support for alumni in all phases of their professional lives.

Unpack Your Resume to Prep for Interviews: A Storytelling Technique

Throughout your job search, you’ll be telling stories about your past experience to help hiring managers understand how you’ll likely perform in the job if they hire you. In this post, I’m going to share a trick that can help …

By Kyle Inselman
Kyle Inselman Director, Alumni Career & Professional Development
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The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living: Tools for Self-Knowledge

Socrates said, ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’

If this proclamation is indeed true, then where does one begin to excavate these multiple dimensions of their life? And, more than that, what is the point?

Well, from the perspective …

By Carolyn Sommers
Carolyn Sommers Associate Director, Serves Undergraduate CAHSS & Exploring Students
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The Role of a Master Resume in Your Job Application Process

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 Inselman Director, Alumni Career & Professional Development
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The Best Way to Figure Out if a Company’s Truly Committed to Diversity and Inclusion

You want to work at a company that genuinely values diversity and inclusion, but it can be hard to separate reality from myth. How do you know if your prospective employer authentically believes in these values, or is just saying …

By Ronie Kononova
Ronie Kononova Student Marketing Assistant
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Crafting Your Personal Brand

Whether you realize it or not, everyone has a personal brand. The ubiquity of social media today makes it relatively impossible to fly under the radar. The question is whether or not you take the time to actively cultivate and …

By Grace Goodman
Grace Goodman Assistant Director, Alumni Career & Professional Development
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Alumni Career and Professional Development Contact Info

Phone
303.871.4331
Address

Burwell Center for Career Achievement
2190 E. Asbury Avenue
Denver, CO 80210

Quick Question Phone Hours

Tuesday 12 PM – 1 PM
Thursday 3 PM - 4 PM

Call for any career related questions!

Calls and voicemails received outside of our office hours will be returned within two business days. We also welcome quick questions over email at alumnicareers@du.edu.