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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.
A Very Intentional Career Change to Personal Financial Planning
Apr 15, 2024
“When it came to finances, my mom taught me early on the importance of saving my money and always having my money work for me,”...
Serving His Country, Serving His Career Goals
Apr 8, 2024
Discipline. Loyalty. Service. Duty. Respect. These are the traits that drew Isaac Stuart to enlist in the U.S. Army after earning a B.S....
Berkeley Insights Through Berkeley Global Access Program
Apr 3, 2024
Hello! My name is Greta Puschmann, I am 21 years old, and I study political science with a minor in law at Goethe University in...
Possibilities Are Endless in Visual Arts
Mar 25, 2024
Lucía Moreno Nava, a graduate of Pomona College in media studies, found herself drawn to the wide expanse of possibilities that are...
A Career From Designing to Project Managing Sites
Mar 25, 2024
Like many of us, Jessica Raab Holmgren didn’t know what she wanted to do for a living after high school. Growing up on a sailboat in a...
Top 10 Experiences as an International Student at UC Berkeley
Mar 18, 2024
I'm Marina Zalcberg Angulo, a Brazilian undergraduate law student at Insper University. For the Spring of 2024, I’m part of the...
Refined Editing Skills to Boost a Writing Career
Mar 13, 2024
“Use the right word.”
Oakland native Lia Mezzio says her mother—an English major who taught her early on to love reading, writing...
Sticking to Her Roots
Mar 12, 2024
Brhan Eskinder has the ick that’s going around in early 2024. She’s going to take a few days off from dental school to rest, but...
Breaking Ground to Career Advancement
Mar 12, 2024
Since graduating from high school in the spring of 1998 in Mexico, Juan Resendes has built—brick by brick—his career in...