Students and Alumni Services
Design Your BSU Experience...
Phone: 301-860-3825
Email: engage@bowiestate.edu
Appointment Requests: Complete students and alumni request form.
Contact Team Members: View contacts page.
The Engage Center for Experiential Learning and Career Readiness is committed to engaging you in designing and navigating your education, career, and life with intention and purpose—especially in a complex, rapidly changing world where career paths are not always straightforward.
Using a career and life design approach, we co-design plans with you that will spark curiosity and empower you to shape your own career readiness.
Through self-discovery, strengths development, professional skills refinement, and connection to meaningful, real-world experiential and employment opportunities, you will build the competencies necessary for moving boldly forward with confidence and purpose to make an impact.
Career Readiness and Experiential Learning Services
Appointments
Schedule an appointment to meet with your assigned career readiness counseling and education specialist to co-design a career readiness plan aligned with your goals. Using a career and life design approach, we help you explore career options, clarify goals, and plan next steps. Appointments are personalized to your needs and available to current students and recently graduated alumni on a variety of career readiness and experiential learning topics. >>Learn More
Workshops
Signup to participate in one or more of our interactive workshops covering a wide range of topics including career readiness and experiential learning topics. Using a career and life design approach, our workshops are designed to build essential career readiness skills that provide practical strategies, guided activities, and opportunities to learn alongside peers. Workshops are open to current students and recently graduated alumni that offered throughout the year in both virtual and in-person formats. >>Learn More
Career Planning Resources
Explore a collection of career planning resources curated to support your career readiness journey at your own pace. These tools and materials help you explore career and major options including assessments; develop resumes and cover letters; prepare for interviewing and networking; search for jobs and internships; engage in experiential learning opportunities; prepare for career fairs, and much more. Using a career and life design approach, our resources offer practical guidance, exercises, and content that complement appointments and workshops or can be used independently. >>Learn More
Job and Internship Opportunities
Search for job and internship opportunities designed to help you gain hands-on experience and connect your academic learning to career goals. These opportunities include full-time jobs, part-time jobs, internships, on-campus employment, and work-based experiential learning roles across a wide range of industries and interests. Job and internship opportunities are available to current students and alumni and are updated regularly to support your employment and experiential learning. >>Learn More
Experiential Learning Opportunities
Connect with experiential learning opportunities designed to help you apply classroom knowledge, build professional skills, and clarify career interests through meaningful, real-world experiences. These opportunities may include community and service learning, learning communities, cooperative education, internships, research, leadership roles, study abroad, and other hands-on learning activities. Experiential learning opportunities are available to current students, with select opportunities also available to alumni, and are offered throughout the year in a variety of formats including on- and off-campus as well as virtual options. >>Learn More
Handshake, Quinncia, and Sigi3 Systems
Access career technology systems designed to support your career readiness journey from exploration through employment. These platforms help you explore career and major options, develop and refine application materials such as resumes, practice interviewing, and search for jobs, internships, and experiential learning opportunities. These systems include Handshake, Quinncia, and Sigi3, each offering unique tools to help you build skills, explore options, and take next steps toward your career goals. Systems are available to current students and alumni and require access using your BSU university email address. >> Learn More