Find daily ways to engage your career curiosity with workshops, local industry tours, alumni panels & networking events, the Spring Career & Internship Expo (4/16), and Practice Interview Day (4/17) that will help you develop skills and connections on the road to career readiness. For a full list of workshops, career tours, networking events, resume reviews, alumni panels, and more, visit career.uoregon.edu/events or register for events in Handshake. Why wait?! Stop by the University Career Center in Tykeson Hall-Garden Level ASAP to get drop-in resume reviews and other career guidance to make the most of your Career Readiness Week!

The University Career Center offers a special thanks to our Spring 2026 Career Readiness Week sponsor: Enterprise Mobility!

FULL LIST OF EVENTS! 

Resume Extravaganza (Drop-In Resume Reviews)  Wednesday, April 8th, 11am-4pm, Tykeson Hall Commons (1st Floor)  Did you know you can have someone review your resume before the Career & Internship Expo? Drop in any time to get feedback on your resume. Don’t have a resume? Come learn how to make one!  

Spring Career Closet Pop-Up  Thursday, April 9th, 12pm-3pm, EMU Redwood Auditorium (214)  Make a first impression that reflects your awesomeness! Browse through new and gently used business casual and professional clothes, and curate a FREE interview-ready outfit!  

Career Tour: Healthcare   Friday, April 11th, 8:45am-1pm, meet at Ford Alumni Center (RSVP on Handshake Required! Space Limited!)  Thinking about a career in healthcare? Have we got a Friday morning for you! Hop on the bus and let’s go explore McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield for a behind-the-scenes tour and Q&A with healthcare leaders just for UO students! 

Building your Network: LinkedIn & Beyond (Workshop)  Friday, April 10th, 2pm-2:45pm, Tykeson Hall Garden Level 50P (University Career Center-Conference Room)  Learn how to build meaningful professional connections, both online and in person. We’ll cover how to create or update your LinkedIn profile, reach out for informational interviews, and make the most of networking opportunities at the UO and beyond.  

Curious about the Career & Internship Expo (Virtual Info Session)   Monday, April 13th, 12pm-1pm via Zoom (Register in Handshake)   Learn the ins and outs of navigating the in-person Career & Internship Expo, updating your Handshake profile, researching employers, and how to present yourself authentically during the expo.  

So, You want to learn about Grad School (Workshop)  Tuesday, April 14th, 2:30pm-3:15pm, Tykeson Hall Garden Level 50P (University Career Center-Conference Room)  Whether you are just exploring or already researching programs, this workshop will help you make sense of your options. We will break down different types of degrees, how to find and compare programs, and what to expect in the application process so you can move forward with clarity and confidence. 

Your Future in Tech + Connect (Networking)  Tuesday, April 14, 4pm-6pm, EMU Crater Lake Rooms       Join us for a special industry-connection night dedicated to helping you get career ready for your future in Tech. Participate in small group networking with tech professionals and alumni to get advice on career-building opportunities and connections. 

Interviewing Strategies for Success (Workshop)  Wednesday, April 15th, 12pm-12:45pm, Tykeson Hall Garden Level 50P (University Career Center-Conference Room)  Learn how to prepare with confidence, answer common (and tricky) interview questions, and communicate your strengths clearly. We will also share helpful tools and resources you can use before your next interview. 

Opportunity Hub (Panel + Networking)  Wednesday, April 15th , 3:30pm-5pm, EMU Crater Lake Rooms (146)  Following panel from 3:30pm-4pm, Grab a snack and rotate through casual small group chats with alumni, professionals, and employers to learn more about their companies (like Nike, Pinterest, Teach for America and more!), career paths, and get advice about how to find career-building opportunities and connections for your future.  

Job Shadow Day Interest Meeting 

Wednesday, April 15th, 4pm-5pm, Tykeson Commons  Come learn about Job Shadow Day happening on May 15th and how getting outside your comfort zone for one Friday with mystery mentors can jumpstart your career exploration!  

BizCareers: Internships Spring into Fall Ready (Panel + Networking)  Wednesday, April 15th, 5:30-8pm, Lillis 182 & Atrium  INTERNSHIPS! How to find them, prepare for, apply, and land them!  

• Internship Stories Panel, 5:30-60, Lillis 182  Hear practical, applicable insights from a panel of alumni, industry partners who hire, and students who successfully navigated the process during an internship prep panel focused on networking, referrals, timing, applications, and more. 

• Internship Power Prep Round Tables (with FOOD!), 6:30-8pm, Lillis Atrium    Stay for a structured roundtable Q&A, exploring four essential topics—researching companies and people, getting started with networking, building resilience during the search process, and developing mentorship and ongoing relationships. You will practice asking great questions, get personalized advice, and walk away with actionable next steps you can use immediately.  

Spring Career & Internship Expo 

Thursday, April 16th, 12pm-4pm, EMU Ballrooms  

Get curious about your future and make connections with cool employers! Find your career fit with over 60+ employers comprised of a variety of industries and organizational types--all on-campus and excited to share more with you about early career talent opportunities.   

• First Career & Internship Expo? Or just a little nervous? Come early and get a low-stress, behind-the-scenes Expo Preview & Tour (11:15am-noon, EMU Ballrooms) and learn how to navigate the expo and make a good first impression with employers.   

• Take part in the Expo Scavenger Hunt to win prizes and have fun conversation starters with employers.   

• Want to make a great first impression?  Bring copies of your resume and wear an outfit that reflects your confidence, personality, and professionalism. 

• While you are all dressed up, get a FREE Professional Headshot taken to add to your LinkedIn!  

Practice Interview Day 

Friday, April 17th, 12pm-4pm (30-45 minutes each), Tykeson Hall 1st Floor Commons     Come practice commonly asked interview questions and get active feedback from experienced professionals and career coaches on your communication style, professionalism, and more. Drop-ins are welcome! 

Why YOU should come to this Expo...

• You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world.
• You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!).
• You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply.
• You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about.  Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner.
• You want a FREE professional headshot! Dress to impress and get a headshot taken you can use on your Linkedin! 

WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 60+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!

WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!

The University Career Center thanks Enterprise Mobility for sponsoring all of our Spring Career Readiness Week events and workshops and to Summit Bank for sponsoring the Spring Career & Internship Expo!

For a full list of Spring Career Readiness Week (April 10–17) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events

The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) is pleased to host a research colloquium featuring faculty and graduate student scholars whose work explores how migration, embodiment, environment, and cultural production shape Latine experiences of belonging. Through literature, media, performance, and critical theory, this event highlights interdisciplinary approaches to identity, place, and community across Latinx and Latin American contexts.

Salomé Herrera, PhD, is a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Oregon whose research is rooted in literary, performance, and Latinx studies. In their talk, "Trans* Epistemologies: Tracing the Womb across the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers," Herrera traces an embodied trans* epistemology across the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers from the Benson Library at the University of Texas at Austin. They specifically examine the development of Anzaldúa’s conceptualization of “el cenote,” Mexican lime hole sinkholes with spiritual significance for Mayan cultures, understood as material reservoirs or “wombs” of the collective unconscious from which creativity emerges. Drawing across spiritual and materialist traditions, Herrera shows how a sense of transitivity emerges from a queer Chicana feminist understanding of evolution, ultimately arguing that Anzaldúa’s speculative world-building transforms the womb from a colonized site of carceral policing into one of communal creativity with decolonial potential.

Alejandro Marín is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Romance Languages at the UO whose research focuses on contemporary migrant narratives from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Equatorial Guinea. His dissertation, "The New Errancy: Configurations of Contemporary Migrant Literature in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Equatorial Guinea," develops “The New Errancy” as an analytical category to examine how authors from three distinct migration contexts challenge traditional colonial axes, reimagine non-biological family formations, and construct transnational identities in solidarity with contemporary migrants. Supported by the CLLAS Graduate Research Grant, Marín conducted archival research in the Dominican Republic, interviewed author José Acosta, and observed cross-border dynamics at Dajabón, grounding his work in lived migration contexts. The chapter he presents reads Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home as a meditation on how transnational Dominican families negotiate generational fracture, linguistic displacement, and the contested meaning of belonging between the island and the United States.

Moe Gámez is a doctoral student in the Department of English at the UO whose research explores the intersection of Latinx literature, environmental justice, and queer/trans theory. Their dissertation examines how queer and trans Latinx authors and artists represent ecologies through embodied, speculative, and political narratives. Through archival and literary analysis, Gámez’s work contributes to the growing subfield of queer and trans Latinx environmentalisms, highlighting how questions of environment, identity, and embodiment are deeply interconnected.

Together, these scholars offer interdisciplinary perspectives on how Latine communities and cultural producers negotiate identity, space, embodiment, and belonging in relation to migration, ecology, and social transformation. Please join us for this engaging conversation and opportunity to learn more about emerging faculty and graduate student research at the UO. This event is presented by the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.

The Northwest Native American Language Resource Center's Community Project Planning and Development (CPPD) workshops are designed to help guide you through the process of creating a community-based project: from coming up with the idea, to building a solid organizational and logistical foundation, and all of the other necessary steps to get your project proposal completed. Overall, there are 15 CPPD workshops in this series. 

Each workshop also has an associated next-day drop-in assistance hour. This workshop series is meant to take participants with little to no experience in community project planning and development and help them complete their first project proposal. While we are focused on assisting with project planning and development of Alaskan Native/Native American Language projects, much of the content that you will be learning in these workshops is readily transferrable to other types of projects.

Registrants will have access to all workshops in this April offering. Attendance at all workshops in the offering is recommended but not required. 

All instruction is provided online and instructors will join online. Participants will join remotely via zoom (please see technology section below.)

Workshops in this Offering

The CPPD workshops are offered in smaller, five workshop offerings. The first five workshops were offered in November and December of 2025. The workshops that are available in the April offering are: 

Workshop 6: Identifying Long-Range Goals 

• Topic: Supports facilitation of community discussions to identify vision-aligned, long-term goals that drive project outcomes.
• Date: 4/1
• Drop-In Assistance: 4/2

Workshop 7: Defining Barriers to Long-Range Goals 

• Topic: Identifies internal and external barriers, explores strategies to surface challenges, and begin problem-solving approaches.
• Date: 4/8
• Drop-In Assistance: 4/9

Workshop 8: Creating Project Goals & Objectives 

• Topic: Translates community vision into specific, measurable project goals and objectives using clear, structured frameworks.
• Date: 4/15
• Drop-In Assistance: 4/16 

Workshop 9: Outcomes, Outputs, & Activities 

• Topic: Distinguishes outcomes, outputs, and activities, aligns them within a project framework/logic model.
• Date: 4/22
• Drop-In Assistance: 4/23

Workshop 10: Building a Project Work Plan

• Topic: Hands-on strategies to create a work plan with timelines, milestones, responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Date: 4/29
• Drop-In Assistance: 4/30

Technology

The CPPD workshops will be held via Zoom and will use Canvas, a course management system, for materials and activities. Participants must have an email address. It will be best to join on a computer that has a stable internet connection, a webcam, and headphones (depending on your work environment). Using a computer rather than a mobile device will improve your experience - you will be able to better  interact with others, participate in hands-on activities, and see presented materials.