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From getting into graduate schools to landing their dream jobs, our students and alumni study and work hard to accomplish their academic and career goals. Be inspired by their successes to achieve your own career change or advancement.
Earning Certificate Brings Job Promotion
Sometimes all it takes is one opportunity at work to change your career direction. For Jaimee Drew, it was being asked to join a team...
Fashion-Forward to Copywriter
Specialized Program in Professional Writing graduate Helen Schultheis has a “great love for storytelling, and a knack for educating...
Adding Project Management Skills to a Business Role
Three years ago, Eleanor Portacio Abea decided to steer away from a career track that she no longer found challenging. While she had...
From Video Game Production to Co-Managing Dreamforce
When he began the UC Berkeley Extension Certificate in Project Management, Joshua Lanada was working full time as the Project...
The Course of a Counseling Career
Do you visualize your own career opportunities as a beautiful landscape, complete with green meadows and valleys, winding streams and...
Making a Résumé Stand Out
When Macarena Muniz moved to the United States from her native Chile, she thought that her previous job experience might not be weighed...
Learning Various Functions of the Business World
I’m an international student from El Salvador who has been studying business.Before coming to UC Berkeley Extension, I finished my...
Expanding Her Technical Role
In the tech world, successful professionals need to know the technical ins and outs of the company’s product, as well as...
Understanding Her Own Personal Finances
For some, online advice and tutorials provide enough information to keep their finances on track. For others—like Sarah...