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Welcome to the University of Maryland Career Center & the President's Promise

Grad CareerFestival

We are committed to support your career!

The greatest investment you can make is in your career.

The Grad CareerFestival will introduce you to the top career authors and thought leaders who will share timely and relevant ideas that will help you launch and lead a successful career.  You can participate in any of the nearly 100 career lectures at no cost.

We are committed to be there during each transition of your career – from graduation to your retirement!

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The Grad CareerFestival includes four tracks providing tips, skills,
and strategies you need to launch your career!

Career Management
Don’t wait twenty years to find out if you are headed down the right career path! Discussions on career exploration, personal strengths, career management, career planning, and creating a career-life balance.
Job Search
You can shorten your job search by learning fundamental job search strategies. Discussions on resumes, networking, interviewing, LinkedIn, cover letters, job boards, elevator pitches and company research...
Post-Graduation Life
You are leaving the confines of an academic world where you reported to a professor. Learn how to work for a “boss” and colleagues. Discussions on adulting responsibilities, loan refinancing, and career advancement.
Soft Skills
Your academic curriculum has not given you the soft skills and business acumen hiring managers expect. Discussions will focus on leadership, teamwork, goal setting, time management, and creative thinking.

We are here to help you LAUNCH a SUCCESSFUL career!

Your Successful Career Starts with an…

If you don’t know where you are going – you are probably already there.  Now…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Proven Strategies to Leave a Mark…

Jim Carrey’s movie, “Yes Man” reminds us that we can live a more enriching life…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

HOW WILL YOU POWER UP TODAY?

Are you a low-energy person?  During the job search process, you are going to have…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Articulate Your Talents and How They…

To hiring managers, all graduates look alike.  You are going to have to find a…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work…

Do you want to be happy with the work you are doing?  First, you need…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Communicate Your Value With Hiring Authorities

Why should I hire you?  That’s a question you will be asked and you better…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Five Steps to Owning Your Career:…

You’ve heard the saying, “If you don’t know where you are going you are already…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

3 Steps to Create An Authentic…

After sitting in years of “closed-door” meetings where decisions are made about people’s careers, Christine…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

3 Secrets to Negotiating Your Salary

Ready to find a new job or keep your career on track in the middle…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Ignite Your Career! Strategies and Tactics…

Taking the first steps into your career should be one of the most exciting times…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

YouMap: Find Yourself. Blaze Your Path.…

Discover the four pillars of career satisfaction and confidently explain your value in your networking…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Business of You: A Guide…

Lukas Krause explores an important topic for young professionals, especially in today’s economic climate: how…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Miracle Morning for College Students:…

The Miracle Morning for College Students brings you these Life S.A.V.E.R.S. as a guide for…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

An Introvert’s Guide To World Domination

The Stanford Research Clinic’s research is showing over 60 percent of people identify themselves as…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Talent Liberation – The Blueprint for…

Gain an inside look into how human resource professionals and managers evaluate your performance and…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

What do you need to do…

Let’s start with the bad news. You will – I repeat – you will lose…

Lecture Available: 2023-10-31

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Unstoppable: Discover Your True Value, Define…

Learn how to dig down and call on-demand that part of you that will enable…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Life Balance: Acquiring To Make It…

It’s time to think differently.  Learn how and why changing ‘old pattern responses’ with a…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Betting on YOU – How to…

You may wake up one day and realize that nearly every career step  you too…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Albino Chameleon – The Things…

Looking for a change.  Now that we are moving out of the challenges presented by…

Lecture Available: 2022-08-02

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Proven tips to Create a Strengths-Based…

Hiring authorities literally spend seconds looking over resumes and if you are lucky to land…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Tips on Building a Mentoring Relationship…

While you have the knowledge and skills to launch your career, the one thing that…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Pursue Jobs and Responsibilities That are…

Who knows you best?  You do.  Damian will show you how to leverage your strengths…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

LinkedIn and Compensation Strategies to Land…

How and when do you ask about compensation, benefits, and vacation days?  Join Donald to…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

5 Steps to Your Dream Job:…

Your academic curriculum did NOT prepare you for your first professional job search.  Hussain can.…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Master the Art of Successful Career:…

No one is a “born job seeker”.  There are fundamental steps and processes that will…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Resumes That Stand Out!: Tips for…

Your resume is the first thing hiring managers will see. You need to craft your…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Amazing Job Search Gameplan: A Beginner’s…

You need a game plan to land your first professional job search.  Richard will share…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success…

LinkedIn is one of the most powerful career and professional networking tools available to you. …

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Job Search Solution: The Ultimate…

You have a chance to learn fundamental job search strategies from the guy Dr. Phil…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Elevator Pitch of YOU –…

The Elevator Pitch of You powerfully combines a book and an online tool to help…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Inside Career Tips All Job Seekers…

Orlando Haynes is a talent acquisition manager with over 16 years of expertise in career…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Hack Your Job Search with LinkedIn

Jeremy Schifeling has devoted his career to helping students succeed in theirs. From recruiting top…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Amazing Cover Letters to Get a…

Stand Out Cover Letters is Mark’s first self-published book. Having had many jobs over the…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Job Search Process – New World…

As a Woman Business Owner, Linda Leake has been engaging with hundreds of businesses and…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Amazing Interview Answers: How to Answer…

Richard Blazevich helps people get the jobs they’ll love. He specializes in teaching job seekers…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Federal Resume Guidebook: Federal Resume Writing…

Top fed jobs trainer Kathryn Troutman’s Federal Resume Guidebook was the 1st book on these longer…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Telephone/Video Interview Success – How to…

Research suggests it will take up to a dozen interviews to land a job.  Most…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Getting Your First Job For Dummies

It’s your first professional job search.  Learn the fundamentals from a guy who created the…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Create an Elevator Pitch that Catches…

Congratulations! You have been appointed a manager of the world’s most important brand. You need…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Getting the Interviews: Spreading the Word

If you haven’t started your job search by the time you’re in the middle of…

Lecture Available: 2022-08-02

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Preparing for the Interview: It’s Time…

Now that you have landed that interview appointment, you must understand a vital technique that…

Lecture Available: 2022-08-02

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

There are 12,000+ Job Roles –…

Two hundred years ago, your only career opportunity was to be a hunter or farmer. …

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

I Graduated…Now What?: A Post-College Survival…

You thought the transition from high school to college was extreme.  You are about to…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Freelance Bible: Everything You Need…

You need a side hustle to work while you work your entry-level career job.  Your…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Startup Coach (Teach Yourself)

Right now, at this moment, you are a startup.  Think of your career as a…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

How To Move Abroad And Why…

You are young, you have time to experience things, and you have no commitments to…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Plug into the Job Seekers Ministry

You need to leverage every bit of job search information you can in order to…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Your digital reinvention: A practical guide…

The internet literally turned the job search process upside down for both hiring managers and…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Experience Over Degrees: The Blueprint to…

Get practical, proven advice from a recent grad who mastered the art of looking for…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Launched: Start Your Career Right after…

Millions of college graduates have been where you are right now and all have made…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Keep an Open Mind, Be Realistic,…

You now need to be thinking about your personal and professional life.  Jason will share…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The CEO Next Door – The…

Are you interest in moving into leadership positions during your career?  Join Elena to learn…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Next Gold Rush – How…

A whole lot of people have made millions on cryptocurrency.  Interested in learning how it…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

How to Make an Amazing Impression…

You are going to have a entirely different relationship with your boss than you do…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

It’s Not Right-Left, It’s Top-Down: The…

Journalism has changed.  We are feed news instantly from dozens of sources – all that…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

How To Be an Introvert in…

The Stanford Shyness Clinic’s research has shown over 60 percent of us consider ourselves shy.…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Career Development Toolkit: Activating Your…

The most qualified, equipped and motivated person to manage your career is yourself. Just like…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Three Things I Know Now…

Marge will share the three pieces of advice she wishes she had when starting her…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Three Strategies to Manage Your Student…

You don’t have to stumble through the process of managing your student loan debt on…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

How Top Performers Work Less but…

involving 5,000 people to find out why some people excel on all fronts without putting…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Learn to Apply You’re Strengths to…

Your degree will not guarantee that you are on the fast track. You will need…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The House of You: 5 Workforce…

It’s a pretty competitive job market and with global talent now accessible 24×7 and emerging…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Tasting Your Own Medicine – How…

We tend to look at doctors and hospital administrators as the “authority” who know what…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

I Inc.! Career Planning and Personal…

A presidential candidate once said, “corporations are people too.”  You need to think about yourself…

Lecture Available: 2022-08-02

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Unlock!: 7 Steps to Transform Your…

You need to think of your career as a business.  Abhijeet will share with you…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Bestselling Author Ali Scarlett Shares How…

One way to advance your career fast is to learn how to reach and communicate…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Just Ask: Why Seeking Support is…

Your transition from college to your first professional job will be one of the most…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Soft Skills That Make or Break…

Employers put a high priority on soft skills.  It’s likely your academic curriculum did not…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills…

Employers are looking for people with leadership potential. What do you know about leadership?  Join…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

How To Be A GREAT Salesperson…By…

You may not think you are a salesperson, but you are. You are daily selling…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

You Are the Team: 6 Simple…

You are leaving a collegial academic environment where you reported to a profession to one…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Most Powerful Goal Achievement System…

Start your career by setting a 3, 5, or 10-year goal for yourself.  Mike will…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at…

Think about it.  You can live anywhere in the world and work for any company…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Don’t Take Yes for an Answer:…

A firm handshake and a warm smile along with a comforting voice will go a…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Build an Open Communication Channel with…

The worst thing you can do for your career is to not have a direct…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-09-30

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Jersey Effect: Beyond the World Championship

Did you participate in intramural/club sports or were you on your college athletic teams?  Learn…

Lecture Available: 2024-04-21

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates:…

The problem today is that success requires more than just technical talent. People need interpersonal…

Lecture Available: 2022-12-31

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Thinking Differently Doesn’t Take A Genius

One of the most revered soft skills employers expect you to have is to be…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Accepting Feedback, Advice, and Change is…

Keep in mind you are stepping into a new position and have little knowledge of…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Write Down Your Dreams and Goals…

You can’t launch a successful career without knowing where you want to end up. Todd…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Virtual Leadership: Navigating Uncertainties

University of Dallas Biology major with biology and chemistry lab experience. Multilingual, goal-oriented, detail-oriented, independent,…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Entry Level Leadership Tips and Strategies…

You are just starting your career and are not expected to be the CEO of…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

CEO of Networking

You should be thinking of yourself as the CEO of your own network. Your personal…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Becoming Virtually Adept in the Digital…

In today’s technology-heavy digital world, job searching has become more complicated and multi-faceted. Stefanie will…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Thinking Differently Doesn’t Take A Genius

Your degree will help you land a job, but after that, your soft skills will…

Lecture Available: 2022-10-01

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

The Albino Chameleon – The Things…

Looking for a change.  Now that we are moving out of the challenges presented by…

Lecture Available: 2022-08-02

Lecture Ends: 2024-12-31

Put these Career Lectures on Your Calendar!

Aug 20, 2020

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Aug 20, 2020

Rock Concert of the Gloria

Tower-6 , House Number -605, Sector -75 , Building Name – Golf Avenue-2 , Noida

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Aug 20, 2020

Rock Concert of the Gloria

Tower-6 , House Number -605, Sector -75 , Building Name – Golf Avenue-2 , Noida

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Aug 20, 2020

Rock Concert of the Gloria

Tower-6 , House Number -605, Sector -75 , Building Name – Golf Avenue-2 , Noida

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As you move forward with your own career goals, we are here to support you by sharing resources and insights, as well as connecting you with fellow UMD alumni.

Let us know how you would like to stay involved with the University of Maryland Career Center and we will do our best to give you the confidence to launch and lead a successful and rewarding career.

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