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Outcomes and Career Services
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The Career Center provides students and alumni with career support, opportunities, and connections translating the Gonzaga experience to meaningful life’s work.
“One of the things my [medical ethics] internship really touched on was the social and emotional aspects of medicine that aren’t emphasized as much.” Jill Semenza, ’06 Alumna and medical student
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Career Connections
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Students can drop in for career counseling with one of three career counselors or attend seminars on resume writing, interview skills, networking, and the job market. The Center also houses the award-winning Gonzaga Alumni Mentor Program (GAMP) database, through which a student can access alumni who work in fields of his or her interest. The relationships that develop between alumni mentors and students can range from a few questions asked and answered over the phone to a lifelong friendship beneficial to both parties. GAMP Treks are also planned to places such as Portland, Seattle, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area to expose students to careers available in these areas and to provide for networking opportunities for students and alumni alike.
Gonzaga students can find out about internships and store their own job and internship application materials – such as resumes and cover letters – on Zagtrax.net. Internships provide students an excellent opportunity to see first-hand what it is like to work in a given field. Recently, students have pursued internships with organizations as diverse as People to People, the United States Congress, Microsoft, and Boeing.
ready for recruitment As graduation approaches, many Gonzaga seniors choose to participate in on-campus recruitment, through which representatives of national and international companies such as kPMG, Ernst and Young, Intel, Merrill Lynch, Lockheed Martin, the FBI, Microsoft, and a number of school districts interview Gonzaga students on campus.