Welcome back, Lakers!

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!

New Alumni Offering!

Career Design Program 

Take the next step in your career by joining this program created specifically for the GVSU alumni community.

Quick Links to Get Started

Not sure what your goal is? Click here for curated guidance.

Strategize

Looking for a job? Make a plan and state with these tools.

Discover

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

Engage

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

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**Select GVSU upon registering 


My Goal Is To:

Choose the section below that most aligns with your goal(s).

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

Click here to get started or continue your professional development skills.

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Alumni Spotlights

Gregory Hyde '82 Spotlight

Gregory Hyde '82

My favorite Grand Valley memory is being on the first Grand Valley Cross-Country team to compete at the Nationals.

Cory Jackson '12 Spotlight

Cory Jackson '12

There are so many great memories! As an overarching theme, I participated in Alternative Breaks and those collectively were some of my best memories from GVSU. I met my wife through the program and made some life-long friends.

Megan Damico '18 Spotlight

Megan Damico '18

One of my favorite Grand Valley memories is spending Fall days at the Sustainable Agriculture Project taking care of the honey bee hives and harvesting vegetables.

Kathleen Bell '81 & '99 Spotlight

Kathleen Bell '81 & '99

It was the mid to late 70s and I'm sure like many, it was a great time to be a grand valley. The best was being in the first marching band ever and all the craziness that was and co-authoring the GVSC Fight Song.

Jamie Timm '16 Spotlight

Jamie Timm '16

One of my favorite Grand Valley memories is having some of the very best professors and meeting some incredible people I still call friends.

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