Faculty Career Resource
Faculty Career Resource
Keeping Up with the Career Center:
The Career Center’s External Academy
The FAU Career Center is here to support faculty in empowering students to build meaningful, successful futures. We offer a wide range of easy‑to‑integrate tools, classroom resources, presentations, and career‑focused activities designed to complement your courses and enhance student learning. Whether you’re looking to embed career readiness competencies, connect curriculum to real‑world pathways, or provide students with hands‑on professional development opportunities, our team is ready to collaborate with you.
Support Available

Request a Presentation
Class presentations on career and job search topics by a Career Center staff member

Career Center Assignments
Report your Career Readiness assignments to the Career Center for tracking and reporting

Access Canvas Course
Supplement first-year through capstone courses with software tools and assignmentsprovided by the FAU Career Center

Faculty Playbook
Support the career aspirations of your students and graduates and complement the work of career services offices on your campus
FAU Career Center College Liaison Team

Golden Madume
College of Engineering and Computer Science

Erin Maharaj
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

Kelly Nielsen
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Carly Orenstein
College of Business
Let Us Help You
As a Career Center, we seek to be a resource to you, our faculty and staff partners, as we jointly endeavor to prepare students for their professional plans beyond FAU.
For information on how you can integrate career education into your curriculum, or to schedule a 1:1 consultation meeting,
contact the Career Center at Career@fau.edu or 561-297-3533.
The FAU Career Center Delivers Award-Winning Services!
The FAU Career Center has been delivering award-winning services for years! In recent years, the Career Center and its staff have been recognized by the National Career Development Association (NCDA), The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), the Cooperative Education & Internship Association (CEIA), the Florida Association of College & Employers (FloridaACE), Florida Atlantic University, and South Florida Business & Wealth (SFBW).
Here is a listing of some of the recognitions the Career Center and staff have received:
- NASPA Excellence Award - Silver Winner
- National Career Development Association (NCDA) Outstanding Practitioner of the Year
- Cooperative Education & Internship Association Best Practice Award
- Division of Student Affairs Employee of the Year, Leader of Leaders, Best Practice Assessment Award, Special Achievement Award, Trailblazer for Innovation, Karl F Ijams Humanitarian Award Outstanding Productivity & Center for Global Engagement Partner of the Year.
- South Florida Business & Wealth (SFBW) Up & Comer Award for Education
- Florida Association of Colleges & Employers Brownlee Leadership Award
- Florida Atlantic University’s Graduate Student Worker of the Year, Staff Mentor of the Year
- Florida Atlantic University Jefferey Gabor Exemplary Employee Award
- Florida Atlantic University Student Affairs Customer Service Award
The FAU Career Center is dedicated to supporting FAU students, alumni, and employer partners in building toward successful futures.
Request A Presentation
The FAU Career Center facilitates presentations for a variety of classes, organizations, departments and groups from the FAU community. If you need a guest speaker or if you are unavailable to teach a class due to attending a conference or another commitment, rather than cancelling class, please fill out the form below.
Additionally The Career Center can help partner with employers and companies upon request to to present.We are available to present on a variety of career related topics such as, exploring majors & careers, internships, job search, Handshake and applying to graduate school among others. To request a presentation please complete the form below.
Requests should be submitted three weeks prior to the anticipated presentation date.
We try to process your request as quickly as possible and will contact you should we need any further information. While we try to accommodate each request, in rare circumstances we may not be able to assist due to other engagements or conflicts. Keep in mind that we follow Florida Atlantic University’s academic calendar and will be closed during school holidays and breaks.
If you have other questions about requesting a presentation, or to check the status of your request, contact Carmen Welch at cwelch9@fau.edu or 561-297-3533.