Feb 04 2025 48 mins
Amanda Zielinski Slenski and Suede Graham of Out for Undergrad, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping high-achieving LGBTQ2+ undergraduates reach their full potential, discuss how career centers can support LGBTQIA+ students.
In this episode, Amanda and Suede cover:
- Some of the unique challenges that LGBTQIA+ students often encounter as part of career exploration
- Barriers or biases LGBTQIA+ students might face during interviews or internships, and how career services can coach them to be prepared to handle these situations confidently
- How career services teams can help students assess a company’s culture or inclusivity as part of the job search process
- How career leaders can best support LGBTQIA+ students in career development and immediate strategies that can be implemented to increase support
- How to consider adapting career advising, workshops, and resources to meet the unique needs and circumstances of LGBTQIA+ students
- And more
Resources from the episode:
- Amanda’s LinkedIn profile
- Suede’s LinkedIn profile
- Out for Undergrad website
- Out for Undergrad job board
- Emmanuel College LGBTQIA+ community page (powered by uConnect)
- Human Rights Campaign website
- Human Rights Campaign LGBTQ+ Professional and Student Associations
- Windo
- oSTEM
- Reaching Out MBA Romba Conference
- Point Foundation (LGBTQ scholarship fund)
- Out Leadership
- Out to Succeed 2.0 (global survey of the LGBTQ+ workforce)
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