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| October 2024 | Career Center |
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The Career Center was thrilled to welcome new and returning students and their families to our annual Welcome Weekend Open House. The energy was high and set a great tone for what is sure to be another awesome year at Santa Clara University!
This year, the Career Center is introducing several new initiatives, including a Student-Alumni Mentorship Program, a multi-day Bay Area AI Immersion, and an A.I. Summit. We are also repeating several signature programs that we successfully piloted or-reintroduced last year, including the Career Clarity Retreat, the Possible Tech Accelerator, and On-Campus Interviews. Please check out our calendar for more information on these and dozens of other upcoming events including our career fairs, industry meet-ups, employer coffee chats, and career development workshops. As always, I look forward to working together to deliver on the promise of higher education for all of our students: a good job, social capital, and economic mobility in pursuit of a more humane, just and sustainable world. Thank you,
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This January, the Career Center, in collaboration with Campus Ministry and Counseling and Psychological Services, is hosting the second annual Career Clarity Retreat. Career Clarity Retreat
This two-day retreat is an opportunity for undergraduate students to build career confidence, resilience, and tolerance for ambiguity. And thanks to a one-time $10,000 grant from the Division of Mission and Ministry and an additional sizeable contribution from Campus Ministry, all expenses are covered for up to 26 students! Student applications will open on Tuesday, October 15 (Week 4). If you know of specific students who would benefit from participating in this retreat, please encourage them to apply. More details to come! Questions about the Career Clarity Retreat? Email Vania Tong, Assistant Director of Career Development, at vtong@scu.edu. ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ Four-Day Bay Area AI Immersion Planned for March 2025
We are thrilled to announce our first-ever multi-day Bay Area AI Immersion focused on helping students deepen their understanding of AI and the emerging tech industry through company visits, networking events, and industry panels. Bay Area AI Immersion
Over the course of four days, participating students will have the opportunity to go behind the scenes of companies like Adobe, Google, Handshake, Okta, and more! This immersion—the first in what we expect to be an ongoing series of national and global "industry immersions"—is made possible by a $15,000 grant from the Santa Clara University Board of Regents, to whom we are very grateful. Student applications open on Wednesday, October 9 (Week 3). The application period will remain open until all 20 spots are filled. We expect significant student interest in this unique immersion opportunity, so please encourage students to submit their application quickly. Questions about the Bay Area AI Immersion? Email Colleen Withers, Director of Career Development and Campus Integration, at cwithers@scu.edu. ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ Launching Cohorts 3 and 4 of the Possible Tech Accelerator
Seattle University and Santa Clara University are launching year two of our wildly successful virtual, bi-regional Possible Tech Accelerator! Cohort 3 will start in winter quarter and Cohort 4 will start in spring quarter. Read "Redefining What's 'Possible' in Tech" to learn how participating in the Possible program positively impacted LEAD Scholar and Computer Science major Frank Pusich '27.
Possible Info Session Starting Tuesday, October 15, staff, faculty, and former Possible Fellows will be invited to nominate students for this program, with a focus on first-generation, transfer, and international students. The Career Center is proud to once again provide full scholarships for up to 50 Santa Clara students to participate. Questions about Possible? Email Dylan Houle at dhoule@scu.edu. ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ Welcoming Katie Jin
The Career Center is pleased to announce that Katie Jin has joined our team as the Assistant Director of Employer Relations - Business and Entrepreneurship. Her first day was Monday, September 30.
In this role, she will work closely and primarily with employers seeking to engage with and recruit undergraduate students from the Leavey School of Business. She will report to Melissa Thiriez. Most recently, Katie served as Senior Talent Acquisition Program Manager & Senior Recruiter at TikTok where she recruited early career and experienced talents. She also oversaw the implementation of global talent programs, including talent boot camps, interviewer/hiring manager training, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Katie also has relevant experience working at several other prominent multinational companies, including ByteDance, Baidu, and Abbott. Katie holds both a Master of Science in Technology Management and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science in Economics with a minor in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As we welcome Katie, I want to take this opportunity to thank Melissa Thiriez, for leading the search process. I also want to thank the search committee – Cindy Cooper, Denise Ho, and Colleen Withers – who helped to identify the strongest candidates. And most importantly, thank you to the Career Center staff. For all of the time and energy invested in this process, I am very grateful. Please feel free to send Katie a note of welcome and congratulations at yjin8@scu.edu. ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ Welcoming New Student Employees
The Career Center is excited to welcome our new and returning student employees. Our returning student employees include Anna Chen '25, Shiv Jhalani '25, Ben Brentnall '26 and Marcus Kirk '26 as well as high school junior Gio Ortiz from the Cristo Rey Work Study Program. New student employees are introduced below.
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The Career Center has 16 MBTI Profile assessments and 11 Strong Interest Inventory (SII) assessments that we are giving away for free. (Combined, these assessments cost $40.00 per person.) Request access to your free MBTI and/or SII assessment by emailing Dylan Houle at dhoule@scu.edu. This offer is limited to the first 30 people who respond to this email! (And managers, these are great assessments to complete with your team!) Why are we doing this? Last year, the Career Center transitioned to Focus2Career, a much more cost competitive vendor that offers high-quality career and personality assessments similar to the MBTI and SII. Please help us empty our inventory from our previous vendor before our subscription expires on October 17. ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ ◾ |
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