UConn Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills

We couldn't be prouder of our team representing the Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills, the Jolly Ranchers, for winning the popular vote for their amazing Gingerbread House! Alexandra Garnelis, Lisa M. Famularo, Mary Catherine Decoteau, Kaitlyn Anderson, Wendy Kopp

Seeking an internship? Take inspiration from Calla Kutschke, a UConn sophomore who leveraged on-campus resources to achieve professional success! Through career fairs, the AI resume analyzer Quinncia, and coaching appointments, Calla gained valuable skills and secured multiple internships, including an Engineering Intern role at the Chelmsford Department of Public Works. Her advice: Start early, take advantage of tools like Handshake, and explore resources tailored to your goals, like the Society of Women Engineers. Calla’s journey shows the power of being proactive in your career. Ready to follow her lead? Learn more about her story and explore our resources today!

A huge thank you to our amazing presenters, attendees, and everyone who made this past Friday’s Career Everywhere Conference such a success! Focused on Enhancing Mentorship & Supervision for Student Success, it was truly inspiring to see so many passionate individuals come together to share insights and strategies for mentoring and supervising student employees. From fostering career competencies to navigating multigenerational workforces, our sessions provided actionable takeaways that will help all of us support the next generation of UConn graduates. We’re proud to be part of a community dedicated to empowering students through meaningful mentorship and supervision. Let’s continue integrating career readiness into every corner of our work!

We're just two days away from the Career Everywhere Conference! Terry Palacios will be hosting this impactful session on how effective student training empowers your staff with the skills and knowledge they need to excel in their work. This session will provide examples of instructional materials designed using Universal Design for Learning strategies and ways to implement them creatively whether you supervise onsite or remotely.

We are excited to offer interactive session presented by Karen Bresciano and Kimberly Curry where they will discuss the types of questions that you CAN ask and what questions you SHOULD ask when you sense that your student/supervisee/mentee might need some assistance or support. These conversations or situations may include mental health matters, seeking accommodations, taking a leave of absence, or simply engaging a graduate student/supervisee/mentee who may be struggling.

The conference is this week! We're looking forward to hosting this session with panelists Steve Bustamante, Brooke Foti Gemmell, Karima Jackson and Cindy Jurzynski where they will discuss various types of groups that might need support with student supervision procedures & techniques and will address ways in which the groups represented by the panelists have come together to provide support to (and to be supported by) one another.

In just two weeks, we'll be hosting this session on Mentorship Mastery at the Career Everywhere Conference! Christina Mingo will provide participants with the tools and strategies to identify potential biases, implement fair review practices, and create an inclusive environment that supports the development of student staff. By equipping faculty, staff, alumni, and employers with actionable strategies to transform common mentorship challenges into opportunities for growth, this will enhance the effectiveness of mentorship programs and profoundly impact each student's academic and personal development.

We are excited to offer this breakout session on strategic goal setting at the 2024 Career Everywhere Conference! In this engaging and relatable presentation, Chelsea Zabel and Jessica (DiFoggio) Groves will take the group through the importance of collaborative and personal goal setting for establishing professional ownership, why that ownership is important and provide various goal setting techniques, structures and activities to use with their staff.

You won't want to miss this informational session on Motivating Mentees Toward Behavior Change: A Tailored, Mentee-Centered Approach! Presenter Dr. Nathaniel Rickles is an applied social scientist and psychiatric pharmacist who has taught behavior change in pharmacy education for over 25 years and has used the concepts in some of his past and current research. Dr. Rickles has edited textbooks that include several book chapters including some authored by him on the topic of behavior change. Register for the Career Everywhere Conference here:

There's still time to register and attend the Career Everywhere Conference. Our selection of engaging sessions include Enhancing Your Supervisory Style: Aligning Style with Effective Communication. Presenters Cinnamon Adams, and Jim Wohl will present strategies and concepts to help attendees develop their supervisory style and communicate effectively with students and early professional supervisees. Participants will engage in interactive activities designed to help them assess and refine their supervisory approach, with a focus on aligning their supervisory style with action that promotes clarity, understanding, and collaboration in their supervisory relationships. Register for the Career Everywhere Conference: