We inspire, empower, and connect SJSU students, educators, employers, and alumni to build the workforce of the future.
From exploring majors to launching careers, the Career Center helps Spartans prepare for lifelong career success through career counseling, employer engagement, career education, and experiential learning.
How We Support Spartans
Career Education
Career counseling and exploration, career-readiness events and workshops, academic partnerships, and digital literacy.
Employer Connections
Career fairs, employer information sessions, career treks, recruiting events, internships, and networking opportunities.
Career Resources
Career tools, technology, and resources that help students explore careers, build skills, and prepare for internships and jobs.
Our Mission & Vision
Mission
We inspire, empower, and connect SJSU students, educators, and employers to build the workforce of the future.
Vision
Every Spartan emerges career ready and equipped for lifelong career success.
Our Values
To build a meaningful career, students must identify opportunities, take risks, and get comfortable with new situations.
Therefore, we design our services to foster motivation, opportunity-recognition, prudent risk-taking, and comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty.
Students are emerging contributors who must actively test career options, forge their strengths, and build confidence.
Therefore, we align our services to emphasize active life design, direct engagement with working professionals and career experiences, and strengths-focused development.
Career success involves more than finding a job; it must be connected to personal goals, community roles, strengths, interests, values and many other elements of a rich life.
Therefore, we approach each student as a unique individual. We foster reflective learning through career prototyping rather than adherence to prescriptive career guidance. We encourage self-determination rather than a takeover of the developmental steps students must take on the path toward lifelong career management.
SJSU’s students offer essential talent and diverse perspectives that employers need to create resilient and relevant organizations.
Therefore, we align with NACE Principles for Ethical Professional Practice, which emphasize equity, access, and adherence to the law. We foster equitable recruiting processes rather than direct placements or referrals. We encourage employers to form diverse candidate pools in search of capabilities and potential as much as strict qualifications.
Observing models of professionalism and leadership are key to student identity and career development.
Therefore, in our work we strive to model honesty, commitment to quality, responsiveness, and willingness to learn from feedback.