Alumni Career Coaching Community
This program will equip GVSU alumni with career search skills that increase confidence and lift noticeability with hiring organizations while helping discover what the next chapter can look like.
Each career coaching community is facilitated by a professional career coach from the GVSU Career Center and meets once per week for six weeks. There is no cost and each group has a capacity of 12 alumni.
Current Community Cohorts
First Generation Alumni
Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. EST
June 16 - July 21, 2022
Capacity: 12 alumni
All meetings are held virtually
2SLGBTQIA+ Alumni
Thursdays from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
June 16 - July 21, 2022
Capacity: 12 alumni
All meetings are held virtually
Future Opportunities
If you're interested in career coaching opportunities, but one of these identity-based cohorts is not the right fit for you, please let us know by submitting an interest form via the link below. We'll keep you updated on the next round of Alumni Career Coaching Communities.
Program Overview
Welcome & Pre-Work: Setting the Stage for Success
Accepted alumni must participate in a welcome conversation to set the stage for coaching community participation. This will be an informal conversation around goals, expectations, and providing self-reflection pre-work.
Week 1: Calming Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome feels like your just making things up as you are going along and that someone is waiting around the corner to call you out. We’ll spend time discovering and taming these gremlins.
Week 2: World of Work as a Whole Being
Society has conditioned us to compartmentalize our lives; we believe that you should live an authentic life that encompasses you are a whole being – and chart ways of setting goals.
Week 3: Where Can I Go + Professional Toolkit Development
We’ll begin to hone into what your new chapter can look like and how to begin bringing it into focus. You’ve also got a few years of experience; it’s time to repackage your resume, cover letter, and social presence – we’ll walk through revamping your professional toolkit to get you where you want to go.
Week 4: Enriching Your Career Search + Salary Research
You’ve put in the work to determine spaces you would like to be in, now let’s strategize how to get there in the most efficient way.
Week 5: Interview Success + Peer Partners
No matter the stage of career development interviewing can be frightening. We’re going to strategize how to be a knockout interviewee. There is power in the eyes of others; we’ll peer review each other’s work to make your professional toolkit even more dynamic.
Week 6: Self Advocacy + Celebrations
It often seems like we can advocate for others without hesitation; however, when it comes to ourselves, we clam up – we’ll learn some techniques for lifting our voices.
Post-Cohort: Closing Questions
Cohort members may schedule a 30 minute closing conversation to have discuss any lingering questions about where to go from here.