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>> My name is Sue Hinkin and I'm Executive
Director of Career Services at the University

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of Denver and we have a whole variety of career
services, offices one for the business school

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and we have Korbel School
of International Studies

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and we also have a law school
and a graduate school and so on.

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So I think my main thrust of what I do is really
try to get everybody to work together on behalf

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of our students; we do a lot of outreach to
employers we don't just sit and wait for them

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to call us, we are out visiting
and trying to develop relationships

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so that we can have wonderful opportunities
for interns and jobs and, you know,

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the whole array of opportunities for students.

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So that's a lot of what I do, we
have events, we have career fairs.

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I do a little bit of career advising, but mostly
administering all the different programs we have

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in different areas of career
services which is data collection,

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really figuring out who's doing what once
the graduate and how long it's taking them

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to get there and also again events and
developing relationships with employers

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and really leveraging the
resources we have together.

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Well an undergraduate walks in not knowing what
they want to do I love that, I just really enjoy

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that because the opportunity to talk with
students and to look at all the different things

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that they did growing up it really
gives you a lot of clues as what

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that student might be interested
in, and so that's the beginning

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of the conversation, you know, what do you do?

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What's fun for you?

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What's interesting?

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And they try to fit in to a job and I don't care
if it's in a job, I think don't care if it's

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in a job, I think they spent their youth, you
know, beach combing and picking up shells,

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you know, that's a clue to me so I just
want to know everything that they've done

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and then I started thinking about some
opportunities that would help them hone

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in on what it is that they might want to do
some things like job shadowing or internships

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or part-time jobs or who they should they should
talk with or a network I think I could help them

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out with, so that's really
where I begin with them.