Career Champions

What are Career Champions?

Career Champions is a community of UMass Lowell faculty and staff who are committed to supporting students’ career development. Members have the opportunity to participate in workshops, connect with other Champions across campus, and gain access to information and tools to support career conversations with students.

Why Become a Career Champion?

While our career advising team supports students on a wide array of career development matters, we know these kinds of conversations are happening across campus with the individuals students best know and trust. Students are developing relationships with faculty and staff across campus and are going to these individuals for guidance.

Our goal with the Career Champions is to recognize the great work faculty and staff are already doing and to equip them with the support, knowledge, and tools to approach career conversations with even more confidence.

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Benefits to becoming a Champion

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Navigating Generational Diversity, Part 1: Why do Generational Differences Matter in the Workplace?

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Lead with Curiosity, Not Your Résumé: Smarter Networking Strategies

It’s no secret that networking plays a key role in career growth, but it gets tricky when you’re actively job hunting. Reaching out to former colleagues, industry peers, or new connections can quickly come across as transactional if not handled …

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Younger candidates prioritize employers with a demonstrated commitment to DEI

This week’s episode of the From Dorms to Desk Podcast, produced by College Recruiter job search site, focuses on a key career-related issue for people early in their careers: diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The episode draws from an article published on …

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How to Thrive as a Transgender Person in the Workplace

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What Does an AI Engineer Do and How to Become One

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the game across various industries, and behind every smart algorithm and predictive model is an AI engineer making it all happen. If you’ve ever wondered what an AI engineer does, how much they make, or …

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Resources for Champions

Career-Related Classroom Assignments

To help bridge academic and career development, we’ve compiled career-related classroom assignments that are “ready to go” or can be …

Career Readiness: Competencies for a Career-Ready Workforce

PDF: This resource defines key competencies that prepare individuals for workplace success.

Challenge Cards

SparkPath Challenge Cards is a dynamic tool to help you explore careers based on real-world challenges, not just job titles. …

SkillScan

SkillScan is a hands-on, physical card sort tool that allows you to gain insight into your strengths, skills you enjoy using and …

Labor Market InsightsIn partnership withLightcast logo

Explore occupations by career categories and pathways and use real time labor market data to power your decision making.

First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Resources

Simple Resume Template

This simple resume template works very well with job application platforms. Avoiding graphics, tables and columns makes it easier for …

Challenge Cards

SparkPath Challenge Cards is a dynamic tool to help you explore careers based on real-world challenges, not just job titles. …

SkillScan

SkillScan is a hands-on, physical card sort tool that allows you to gain insight into your strengths, skills you enjoy using and …

Resources for Students

Handshake

UMass Lowell’s Career & Co-op Center is pleased to offer a comprehensive recruiting system called Handshake. This system provides customized …

Effective Resume Writing Guide

PDF: Check out our guide to write and format your best resume.

InterviewPrep

Preparation is key to success in interviewing and we have a resource to help you. InterviewPrep allows you to complete …

Intelligence Community Scholars Program

Welcome to the University of Massachusetts Lowell Intelligence Community Scholars Program. The North Eastern Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence …

Challenge Cards

SparkPath Challenge Cards is a dynamic tool to help you explore careers based on real-world challenges, not just job titles. …

The Career & Co-op Center is making available grants of $250 to support career-related programming by university recognized student groups. …

Contact & Location

Phone
978-934-2355
Address

University Crossing, Suite 450
220 Pawtucket Street
Lowell, MA 01854-5148

O'Leary Library, Rooms 314 & 316
61 Wilder Street
Lowell, MA 01854-5148

Appointment Hours

Monday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.