Dear Colleagues —

The Princeton Review rankings have been released. For the third time since 2021, Santa Clara University ranks on the Top 20 Best Career Placement (Private Schools), and is in the Top 5 among private schools in California.

The rankings are based on both student ratings of career services at their school and on Payscale's salary information for alumni.

Cheers and congratulations to all of us at Santa Clara University, but especially to the dynamic, dedicated and wonderfully diverse staff of the Career Center who come to work each day to help deliver on the promise of higher education: a good job, social capital, and economic mobility in pursuit of a more humane, just and sustainable world for all.

Thank you,

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We are thrilled to be the recipient of a $15,000 grant from the Enterprise Mobility Foundation™ to provide increased support for Diversity Works Expo & Awards and other career services initiatives. This gift is the largest-ever corporate grant to the Career Center in our 30-plus-year history.

Read the press release.

Questions about Diversity Works Expo & Awards? Email Amanuel Bizuneh, Assistant Director of Employer Relations, at abizuneh@scu.edu.

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Last year, we launched our inaugural Employer Partner Program, simplifying the recruiting process for employers while generating $25,000 in new revenue for the Career Center. This summer, we are accepting new employers for the upcoming 2024-2025 recruiting cycle.

We welcome our new partners: the City of San José and Management Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT), and we are grateful for our renewing partners: ServiceNow, Enterprise Holdings, Inc. and Ability Path.

Do you know any organizations who would be interested in learning more about our Employer Partner Program? Please introduce them to Melissa Thiriez, Director of Employer Relations and Partnerships, by email at mthiriez@scu.edu.

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Over the past several months, we have been busy redesigning our website homepage to make it more modern, action-oriented, navigable and dynamic. Check it out: https://www.scu.edu/careercenter/

The credit for this work goes to our recent graduate intern, Mohan Raj Chandrasekar, M.S. Computer Science & Engineering '24 and Vania Tong, Assistant Director of Career Development.

This summer, the next step in our effort to be best-in-class online is to improve website accessibility by making updates in alignment with Siteimprove recommendations. Our current summer intern, Isabel Zuluaga Gonzalez, M.S.  Computer Science & Engineering '25, is working together with Vania on this ongoing project.

Questions about our website design? Email Vania Tong at vtong@scu.edu.

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We are mid-way through our series of summer workshops and events and already more than 100 people from around the world have participated.

Next up is Tips from Recruiters, featuring insights and tips from professionals at Poshmark, ZipRecruiter and TabaPay. This event is free and open to the public.

Tips from Recruiters
Thu, August  8, 12-1 p.m.

Updating Your Resume and LinkedIn
Wed, August 14, 12-1 p.m. 

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The Career Center, in partnership with the Leavey School of Business, has officially adopted Jobscan, a popular tool for creating and optimizing resumes for specific job titles and job descriptions. We are hosting a campus-wide demo and training for you to learn how to use and integrate this platform into your classrooms and programs.  

Jobscan will replace VMock, our current A.I. resume review tool. Students will continue to have access to VMock until early November. We are switching from VMock to Jobscan because we firmly believe Jobscan is a better solution and superior product, and it is also a more cost competitive vendor.

Questions about Jobscan? Email Colleen Withers, Director of Career Development and Campus Integration, at cwithers@scu.edu.

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The Career Center is already busy planning for next year's recruiting season, and we're excited to share the dates of our two in-person fall career fairs. We ask you to please keep these dates in mind when planning your own events for fall.

Questions about the Career Fair? Email Melissa Thiriez at mthiriez@scu.edu.

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Meet Our Team.

Questions, concerns, ideas, suggestions?
Please email careercenter@scu.edu.