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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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Find a Job

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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.

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Alumni Spotlights

Judith Majnun Miller-Lindsey '78 Spotlight

Judith Majnun Miller-Lindsey '78

Learning to develop & print black and white film as well as color - doing it the old-fashioned way. Professor Whitney Sevin was an amazing teacher.

Benjamin Parsell '19 Spotlight

Benjamin Parsell '19

During my Junior year, GVSU sent me and three other students to travel out to Palo Alto, CA for a meetup through the University Innovation Fellows.

Carly Dolinski '16 Spotlight

Carly Dolinski '16

My favorite Grand Valley memory has to be Toast with T.Haas. It was the last item in the GV picture bucket list to get a photo with T. Haas. I found it wonderful that a president of a college took the time to congratulate all of his graduates.

Tamala Morris '90 Spotlight

Tamala Morris '90

Gospel choir rehearsals-Cassandra and Marvin Sapp

Sonja Forte '03 Spotlight

Sonja Forte '03

One of my most unique memories was my freshman year, Takeelia Garrett (who is still part of the GV team) took me to Dean Merkles house to bake Christmas cookies.

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