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The Career Center is here to support you at all stages of your career: exploring options, creating a job search plan, preparing job search materials, practicing for interviews, or networking with employers and fellow alumni. We want to help you strategize, discover, and engage!

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Strategize

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Learn something new and apply it directly to your career or job search!

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Connect with employers, career coaches, advisors, and fellow alumni.

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My Goal Is To:

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Find a Job

Find information about the job search process and ways to organize your search. 

Advance or Upscale My Career

Discover how you can advance or upscale your career, no matter the field.

Change My Career Path

Explore different resources that will help you with your career transition, wherever you are in the process.

Develop Professionally

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Alumni Spotlights

Kathee Lamberies '03 & '05 Spotlight

Kathee Lamberies '03 & '05

A favorite Grand Valley memory is meeting two friends, Jill and Brad, and having all of our 300 and 400-level classes together! It was so nice to go through all that with a core group of friends!

Susan Howard '10 & '15 Spotlight

Susan Howard '10 & '15

Between my undergrad classes, graduate classes, and interactions with faculty and staff campus-wide, I developed countless friendships and working relationships that I will always be grateful for.

Thomas Seffernick '14 Spotlight

Thomas Seffernick '14

One of my favorite memories I remember was the nights we spent in the editing suite trying to finish up our assignments.

Lindsay (Kramer) Thompson '06 Spotlight

Lindsay (Kramer) Thompson '06

Getting through swim practice with my teammates and learning in the PE methods classes taught by Dr. Patti Rowe.

Jessica Carlson '09 Spotlight

Jessica Carlson '09

My roommate was from Chicago and the Bears were in the Superbowl in 2007. The snow did not stop us from bundling up and heading out to Superbowl watch parties along 48th Ave!

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