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Career Elevation with CityU 

The CityU Career Center has is providing students with the best possible services to help you realize your professional goals. Our career services suite will elevate your career through career coaching and mentoring that is personalized, practical, hands-on, and creative.

The career center will show you how to create opportunities for yourself and help you execute, so you can achieve your career goals as quickly as possible.

CityU offers end-to-end guidance during this process and helps you present the most professional version of yourself.

What career coaching is provided to CityU students:

• Resume, cover letter and linked in templates, edits and optimizations

• Live, 30-minute one-on-one video calls with notes and action items

• Career tools such as personalized playbooks, career resources and more.

• Email/ Slack Communication to review your documents and get quick feedback and strategic guidance

• Mock interviews based on your career goals.

• And other networking opportunities with leaders in the field.

CityU Global Mentorship Initiative

CityU Career Center is proud to announce its partnership with Global Mentorship Program (GMI). GMI aims to bridge the gap between graduation and first career jobs for college students around the world. With GMI, CityU students are matched with a free corporate mentor to support your career journey. GMI currently has over 18,000 mentors and students in their global mentorship community.

GMI’s mentorship goals:

  • establish a professional network
  • develop soft skills
  • create a career plan and set goals
  • utilize guides for conducting a job search
  • understand how companies evaluate employees

Why choose GMI?

74% of GMI students globally have a job within 6 months of graduating and a 37-point average increase in career confidence and skills after mentorship.

CityU’s academic credit internships are designed to match qualified students searching for practical on-the-job training. Students are connected with employers in the Pacific Northwest seeking highly-motivated interns to carry out real-world projects and assignments.

Connect with the Career Center to learn more about available internships or to share an internship opportunity (employers).

How it Works

Academic internships are available to undergraduates and graduate students. Before applying to an internship program, you will be required to meet with your academic advisor to review prerequisites and other qualifications. You will also be required to meet with the CityU Career Center staff for a skills assessment and to help find the right internship for you.

Internship Hours

Undergraduates are required to intern 150 hours or approximately 15 hours per week and will be awarded five quarter-hour credits upon successful completion.

Graduate students are required to intern 90 hours or nine hours per week and will be awarded three quarter-hour credits upon successful completion.

Availability
Internships are available each quarter. The specific days and hours will be arranged based on the needs of the host organization.

Process

Ready to find the perfect internship for you and your career goals? Take the following steps to get started:

  1. Talk with your academic advisor and complete the internship application.
  2. Email the Career Center to schedule a time for a career skills assessment and review potential ways to find internships. We recommend that current students and alumni sign up to our internal networking web portal for potential internship and job postings.
  3. Meet with the internship coordinator in your department to assess whether the internship opportunities available fit your career goals and academic requirements.
  4. Complete internship agreement documentation with signatures from your academic advisor and departmental internship coordinator.

If you have any additional questions about internship opportunities at CityU, contact your academic advisor.

Professional Networking and Events

Want to make connections in your industry? Check out the links below to find networking events in and around the Seattle area.

Unemployed?

If you live in Washington and recently experienced a layoff or are unemployed, check out Washington Career Bridge for helpful local resources, job boards, career trends, and more.

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