Career Services

Zoom into AI Friday

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Zoom into AI Friday admin Tue, 04/15/2025 - 13:42

Zoom into AI Friday

2025-09-12T06:00:00-0400 to2025-09-12T11:00:00-0400

Online
United States

Office of Student Life

mayshaah@umich.edu

Career Services

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11262544

Strategies for Securing an On-campus Job: undergrads

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:27:27 +0000

Strategies for Securing an On-campus Job: undergrads admin Tue, 04/15/2025 - 13:27

Strategies for Securing an On-campus Job: undergrads

2025-08-08T06:00:00-0400 to2025-08-08T07:00:00-0400

Online
United States

Office of Student Life

mayshaah@umich.edu

Career Services

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11262535

Mock Job Resume Building

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:27:27 +0000

Mock Job Resume Building admin Tue, 04/15/2025 - 13:27

Mock Job Resume Building

2025-07-09T09:00:00-0400 to2025-07-09T10:30:00-0400

Online
United States

Office of Student Life

mayshaah@umich.edu

Career Services

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11262516

Cap Design & Resume Drop in

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:12:26 +0000

Cap Design & Resume Drop in admin Mon, 04/14/2025 - 01:12

TBD

2025-04-23T11:30:00-0400 to2025-04-23T13:30:00-0400

TBD TBD
United States

Office of Student Life

aleeya@umich.edu

Career Services

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11256974

Linkedin Workshop CASL Special

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:12:17 +0000

Linkedin Workshop CASL Special admin Thu, 04/03/2025 - 11:12

Learn the essentials of building professional networks and making the most of LinkedIn. This workshop will provide practical tips and insights to help you strengthen connections and enhance your professional presence online.

2025-04-14T08:00:00-0400 to2025-04-14T09:00:00-0400

4901 Evergreen RD CASL Building Room 1083
United States

Office of Student Life

radiz@umich.edu

Career Services

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11228872

Grad Student Career Toolkit

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:42:16 +0000

Grad Student Career Toolkit admin Tue, 03/18/2025 - 11:42

Attention, Graduate students!

Join this workshop to develop essential skills for your professional journey.

In this workshop, we will cover:

Tips for crafting effective resumes/CVs
Strategies for professional networking
Guidance on building a personal brand

2025-04-10T07:00:00-0400 to2025-04-10T08:00:00-0400

Online
United States

Office of Student Life

aleeya@umich.edu

Career Services

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11177150

Employee Benefits & Financial Literacy after Graduation

admin — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:27:18 +0000

Employee Benefits & Financial Literacy after Graduation admin Tue, 01/07/2025 - 13:27

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2025-04-07T07:00:00-0400 to2025-04-07T08:00:00-0400

Online
United States

Office of Student Life

aleeya@umich.edu

Career Services

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10817271

Career Services is trying new ways to connect with students

lblouin — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:55:58 +0000

Career Services is trying new ways to connect with students lblouin Mon, 01/06/2025 - 08:55

Laurel Draudt says it wasn’t that long ago that college career services offices were known for resume review services and not a whole lot else. At some institutions, this “model from the 1990s” is still the norm. But when Draudt started as 51��Ƶ-Dearborn’s Career Services director in 2022, she was excited to experiment with a broader vision for their five-person office. Borrowing from her background in higher education professional development, Draudt saw an opportunity to recast Career Services as something students used throughout their academic careers — not just in the final few months before graduation when the pressure of a job search suddenly becomes real. “We’re really trying to get students to think about what they can be doing now to be more competitive later,” Draudt says. “We want to be having conversations with first- and second-year students about the benefits of an on-campus job or doing research or studying abroad, because if we can reach them early enough, they actually have time to make changes and do these things.”

So far, that new approach is manifesting itself in a few different ways. Draudt says the office recently added two new career coaches to bolster the office’s core service of by-appointment and walk-in career counseling sessions. And what career coaches are focusing on in those sessions with students is expanding a lot. They still give their fair share of feedback on resumes and cover letters when that’s what students need help with. But coaches are just as likely to be talking with students about programs and careers that might match their interests, how to find a not-for-credit internship (and how to sound professional when you send your inquiries), figuring out how to talk effectively about past job experiences even if they’re unrelated to a career field, or how to develop a tailored job search strategy so they’re not simply applying to hundreds of jobs and hoping for the best.

Draudt says they’ve also been investing a lot of energy into expanding their lineup of in-person and virtual workshops. Looking to go beyond the staples, like sessions on effective job interviewing, they’ve added workshops on other equally practical topics, like understanding benefits packages (which involved a collaboration with 51��Ƶ-Dearborn’s Human Resources office), confident communication, and how to manage stress and anxiety during a job search. The latter two workshop ideas came from the office’s newest member — Career Coach Zainab Radi, a former career peer in the office who recently graduated from 51��Ƶ-Dearborn and took a staff position in the office in October 2023. Radi says being so fresh out of college and having just been through her own job search have turned out to be big assets when coming up with workshop ideas that students might actually find useful. For the confident communication session, she hit up one of her former instructors, COB Lecturer Christine Fischer, who covered everything from strategies for emailing to pitching your ideas to a supervisor to making presentations. The workshop on stress and anxiety grew directly out of conversations she was having with students. “I noticed that with the current job market, and even everything going on politically, students were experiencing a lot of uncertainty and there was a lot of stress and negative energy around that,” Radi says. “Some students who were struggling in their job searches were even having panic attacks. Not being trained in mental health or counseling, I wanted to find a way to provide meaningful support.” So she reached out to her contacts at Counseling and Psychological Services, who put together a workshop on how to manage anxiety during a job search. Radi says it was really eye opening for the attendees, many of whom had never experienced anxiety until this stage of their lives. “I remember they were really surprised by the idea of taking a walk or just getting outside and enjoying nature,” Radi says. “But that can really help you destress. You have to do other things than be on your computer all day applying for jobs, hitting refresh to check and see if you got an email back from an employer. That can just make things worse.”

Career Coach Zainab Radi, a '23 alum and the newest member of the Career Services team, has been responsible for several new workshop ideas.

Both Draudt and Radi say they’re excited to try out more new ideas in 2025, including some new workshops. Radi says a session on financial literacy and how to manage your income boost post-graduation is one topic she’s been thinking about. And Draudt says they’re going to be making more of an effort to collaborate with people and offices that are already regularly interfacing with students. “There’s so much competition for student attention these days, we think it’s a good idea to reach students where they are, because the reality is many of them still might not be thinking they need career services until it’s time for their job search.” Draudt says linking up with faculty, many of whom are already providing a lot of informal career advice, and tailoring more programs and events to specific communities, like international students, are two big priorities for the new year.

Of course, one of the biggest changes for 2025 is that Career Services will be getting a new home. Right now, the office is tucked over in Fairlane Center, but around Spring Break, the staff will be packing up and moving to their new digs on the first floor of the Renick University Center. Draudt is hopeful the convenient location at the heart of campus will help students see that Career Services is something they can be taking advantage of at any point in their college journeys.

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Want to keep an eye on upcoming Career Services workshops? Check out the office’s VictorsLink page. Story by Lou Blouin. Photos by Annie Barker.

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New workshops on topics like managing anxiety during a job search, understanding benefits packages and confident speaking are part of an effort to impact students long before their senior-year job searches.

The Career Services team, from left: Career Coach and Professional Development Manager Devin Johannis, Assistant Director Mai Qazzaz, Career Coach Zainab Radi, Director Laurel Draudt and Senior Professional Development Program Jennifer Macleod.

Interviewing Essentials (interactive)

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Interviewing Essentials (interactive) admin Wed, 12/18/2024 - 16:12

Worried about an upcoming or future interview? Join our workshop!

Discover what an interview process may look like and explore key interviewing strategies while practicing common interview questions! Light refreshments will be served.

2025-04-02T12:30:00-0400 to2025-04-02T14:30:00-0400

19000 Hubbard Drive Michigan Rooms, Fairlane Center South
United States

Office of Student Life

aleeya@umich.edu

Career Services

https://umdearborn.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10790134

What does a meaningful student worker job look like?

stuxbury — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:51:32 +0000

What does a meaningful student worker job look like? stuxbury Mon, 01/30/2023 - 13:51

College of Engineering and Computer Science graduate student Rudra Mehta viewed a student worker editorial assistant position in 51��Ƶ-Dearborn’s External Relations office as a way to help him improve his communication skills.

He said it’s helped set him apart when applying for engineering-focused positions. Reflecting on his student work experience, he said he enjoys writing about campus topics, taking photos, the flexibility and updating website pages. But Mehta would have liked to meet even more people through the position and have additional mentoring opportunities.

CECS graduate student Rudra Mehta, a student employee, proudly poses with the Block M.

“I really like the work that I’ve done, but I am the type of person who wants to learn a bit of everything and I’m always looking to expand my skill set,” said Mehta, who’s worked as a 51��Ƶ-Dearborn student employee since December 2021. “My supervisor helps me learn new things, but there is only so much time because she has deadlines too. It would be nice for me and my supervisor to have the option for extra training and mentors.”

51��Ƶ-Dearborn’s Experience+ (EXP+) program recently joined a collaborative partnership to create ways to do just that. The campus is working with Arizona State University (ASU)’s Work+ team in the design process for this new model for on-campus employment. ASU started Work+ in early 2022.

Initiatives through Work+ are focused around re-imagining the student employee experience. Ideas include supervisor training, professional development workshops for students, added financial support and added mentorship opportunities.

The program, funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Strada Education Network, serves student employees by providing support technology, digital assets, stipends and administrative costs. Strada is a national social impact organization devoted to research, philanthropy and solutions that align education and careers.

"This grant is an opportunity to ultimately transform the working and learning experiences for our campus’ approximately 500 student employees, equipping them with the ability to recognize and articulate the transferable skills they have gained and will use throughout their careers,” said EXP+ Executive Director Laurie Sutch.

Sutch and Associate Provost Maureen Linker will lead this initiative for 51��Ƶ-Dearborn. They connected with ASU’s new Work+ initiative following an academic conference in Chicago in Fall 2022.

ASU leadership, who received the grant to create their campus’ Work+ pilot in 2022, wanted to work with 51��Ƶ-Dearborn because they were excited by the EXP+ structure, along with campus’ project-based learning course focus, the SURE program and the digital storytelling initiative 51��Ƶ-Dearborn Speaks.

“Our partners, including EXP+, are jumping right in with us to co-design customized strategies for their institutional needs that they will take back and pilot in their campus environments beginning in late 2023,” ASU Vice Provost for Academic Innovation and Student Achievement Sukhwant Jhaj said. “This program will deliver the relevant career skills that students expect and employers value."

In total, eight college campuses across the nation are involved with this ASU pilot: 51��Ƶ-Dearborn, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Maine, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Central Florida, Northern Arizona University, Georgia State University and Chandler-Gilbert Community College. The partnership, which includes funding for campus projects, is through 2025. ASU is the facilitator for this collaborative idea generation and implementation effort.

Linker noted that many of 51��Ƶ-Dearborn’s students are paying for school themselves and need to work — so it’s important that student employment experiences provide transferable skills that help students become career ready.

And it will help some of the most vulnerable populations: approximately 43% of working learners are low income and need these college experiences to help them transition to a professional career.

Starting this semester, Linker and Sutch will connect with the Work+ college partners to help shape the pilot program. 51��Ƶ-Dearborn’s team will present their ideas on how they’d implement the added funding in the fall; and the campus would see their efforts on campus starting in Winter 2024.

“(Pilot team members) will be sharing their successes, challenges and advice with not just ASU, but a broader community of practice of additional higher ed partners who are also interested in evolving what student employment looks like at their institution,” Jhaj said.

Linker said 51��Ƶ-Dearborn does many things right — but they see a few areas where they’d like to add support, including centralized student employee training, student employee supervisor training and providing student employees broadened connections with other university students.

Mehta graduates in May, so he won’t see the impact of the program. But he’s impressed that campus continuously looks for ways to optimize and improve the student employment experience.

“I’ve really enjoyed my time at 51��Ƶ-Dearborn, which includes being a student worker for nearly two years,” he said. “I tell people who ask me about attending 51��Ƶ-Dearborn that it’s a great school with many opportunities for growth, and this will only improve the experiences of future students.”

Text by Sarah Tuxbury. Note: Student employee Rudra Mehta is supervised by the author of this article.

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51��Ƶ-Dearborn partners with Arizona State University on a $1.5 million Strada grant to explore this question and expand holistic on-the-job experiences for student employees.

Orientation leader student employees, from left, Sara Dokter, Alyssa Decato and Wafa Jamel tell new Dearborn Wolverines to "Go Blue!" at Wolverine Welcome Day 2022.