Dear Colleagues —

This fall, the Career Center — in partnership with colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Alumni Office — is launching the first-ever Alumni-Student Mentorship Program for students in the humanities and social sciences. We are proud and excited to launch this program in strategic alignment with the goals of Impact 2030.

We need your help to recruit alumni mentors! Forward this email to any interested alumni in your network or recommend alumni for us to reach out to. Alumni can sign up on Bronco Exchange through Sunday, September 15.

• Alumni should have at least 2 years of professional experience;
• Alumni should be based in the Bay Area or able to travel to the Bay Area;
• Alumni can be graduates of any SCU program as long they have the interest and experience to mentor humanities and social sciences students;
• Yes! Faculty and staff can apply to be mentors!

Please direct any questions or alumni mentor recommendations to Shauna Strauss, Assistant Director of Career Development, at sstrauss@scu.edu.

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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We are pleased to invite all staff and faculty to the Career Center Open House on Wednesday, September 18 from 3-5 p.m. This is a casual opportunity to meet our team, see our brand new carpet (!), and learn more about the Career Influencer Network.

RSVP today »

Light appetizers and drinks will be served. All attendees will go home with some fun Career Center-branded swag.

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

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In August, the Career Center brought together several regional partners to host the first ever Silicon Valley Total Internship Management Workshop, facilitated by InternBridge.

More than 20 employers, including multi-billion dollar companies such as Bill.com and Merck KGaA, VC-funded startups like EUV Tech, and local non-profits like Open Door Legal and Chinatown Community Development Center, sent representatives to learn best practices for starting and strengthening their internship programs.

In collaboration with our regional partners, we're both helping educate employers on how to provide meaningful internship experiences for our students, and also supporting workforce development initiatives that make Silicon Valley one of the most exciting economic centers of the world.

Questions about our Employer Relations & Partnerships strategy? Email Melissa Thiriez, Director of Employer Relations & Parnterships, at mthiriez@scu.edu.

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This summer, more than 500 people from around the country registered to participate in our 2nd Annual Virtual Summer Workshop Series. 

We were thrilled to be joined by students and alumni from not only Santa Clara University, but also Boston University, Loyola University Maryland, North Carolina State University, Pace University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, University of Southern Mississippi, and many more!

Congratulations to Myriam Bartz, Shauna Strauss, Noël Kreidler, Amanuel Bizuneh, and Andrew Gupton for delivering value far beyond the borders of our campus.

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

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The Career Center is excited to offer a full and dynamic menu of events, programs, workshops, and fairs this fall quarter. Up-to-date information on our events calendar.

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The SCU Career Center follows an academic and industry liaison model: each member of our team supports specific academic programs and their common industry counterparts.

Below are the members of our Career Development and Employer Relations teams and the academic programs they support. If you have ideas for collaborating, please reach out!

On Wednesday, August 14, the Career Center hosted Laura Kalb, our Handshake relationship manager, for a day of learning, product demonstrations, and feedback.

In our meeting with Handshake, we learned that Santa Clara University is far outpacing our peers in terms of undergraduate, graduate, and alumni platform activation and usage!

One of the many reasons Santa Clara University is proud to be a #HandshakeSchool is because of the high-touch customer service they provide and their willingness to ideate and listen to feedback. Thank you for giving us a visit, Laura!

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Meet Our Team.

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