Friends and Alumni Opportunities

Career Advantage

Friends and Alumni now have another opportunity to be involved in the career development of current Seaver students by participating in Career Advantage, a program that allows professionals to volunteer their time and expertise to current students who wish to job shadow, have an informational interview, or even have lunch and learn more about a field of their interest. Become a resource to students by creating a searchable profile (tips). You decide how often you are contacted, and all your contact information is kept confidential until you are ready to be contacted.

Join the Career Advantage Program
Brought to you by the Career Center and your Seaver Alumni Office

Create or update your profile now!

*IMPORTANT ITEMS TO NOTE*

Creating a profile in Career Advantage will not update your record with your alma mater. Please help us keep in touch with you by updating your information with the Pepperdine University Alumni Association.

Pepperdine University is planning to launch a University-wide career support tool for students and alumni from all five schools. Identifying and implementing this program will take time. What we want to offer to you today is an interim chance to build meaningful relationships and offer career advice/opportunities to those who need it most. Every attempt will be made to make the transfer to the upcoming University-wide career support tool as seamless as possible. As a benefit of your involvement, you will be the first to know when this new tool will launch!

Ways to be Involved

Take a Wave to Lunch is a program that connects students with alumni and friends of Pepperdine University with the intention of creating a business meeting over a meal to discuss the student’s career of interest. Alumni and friends of Pepperdine agree to be contacted by a designated number of students during a calendar year, which is determined when registering as a Career Advantage volunteer.

Informational Interviews give students the opportunity to learn about particular companies and organizations and the various positions available within them. Students are encouraged to use these interview opportunities to talk to employers about future positions within the company/organization and to submit resumes for consideration.

Job Shadowing provides students with the opportunity to shadow a professional in a particular career field for a few hours and to learn about the professional’s job role and organization.

Career Roundtables provide students with the opportunity to gather insight and advice from successful people in various career fields. These programs are offered to students during the fall and spring semester. Panelists are invited to share personal insight about their chosen profession/career path and to participate in a Q & A session with the students.

Mock Interviews are designed to prepare students for those all-important job and internship interviews. Interviewers assist in conducting interviews and providing constructive feedback to student interviewees.

Dinner Guest Speaker Series is an annual event at which one or two keynote speakers are invited to provide general career advice/motivation at a dinner attended by 30 students with a variety of majors and career goals.

Phone Interviews and/or Career Advisement provides interested students with the opportunity to connect with alumni or friends of Pepperdine who are willing to interview and/or speak to them about a particular career path or profession. Students are able to gain knowledge into particular fields of interest and further develop professional interaction with those currently in their field of interest.