Career Development

Insalaco Center for Professional Development and Leadership

The Insalaco Center for Professional Development and Leadership houses both career and leadership development on campus. It also advises the Student Government Association.

Preparing for a successful future demands more than just obtaining a quality education. Truly successful students begin to develop career planning competency as first-year students and build upon this throughout their academic and professional lives. The Insalaco Center for Professional Development and Leadership provides the resources and assistance necessary to turn academic achievement into career opportunity.

Recognizing that the world of work requires life-long learning, the Insalaco Center promotes the development of short-range goals as part of long-range career plans. This approach helps ensure that students build flexibility into their career plans. The Center serves all university students and alumni with its career development resources and team of professional staff. The mission of the Center is to prepare students for employment, graduate school or professional school and to manage their careers throughout their working lives. The Insalaco Center coordinates the Guaranteed Placement Program, which is designed to connect students’ academic and co-curricular learning in order to position them for success in today’s, and tomorrow’s, job markets.

The Center provides the following services:

• Individual career consultations
• The Choice Program for undeclared students
• Career assessment
• Experiential education (shadowing, internship, externship, part-time, and summer jobs)
• Mentoring opportunities
• Graduate and professional school advising
• Employment skill development and training
• On-campus recruiting
• Career development resources to assist students in all major areas of study
• Student Leadership Transcript