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Last Updated: May 12, 2025 10:20:43 AM PDT
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Discover a wealth of digital resources designed to support your professional growth and success. Whether you're exploring career and life design, building career readiness skills, gaining hands-on experience through experiential learning, or seeking mentorship, these tools provide guidance and strategies to help you thrive. Take charge of your career journey with these valuable resources.
Videos
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Stanford: Designing Your Life with Bill Burnett
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Stanford Life Design Lab: Designing Your Life
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Designing Your Work Life with Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
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TEDx: The Power of Experiential Education with Brianna Roberts
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Wharton Future of Work Conference: Individual & Organizational Mindset
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TEDx: How to Turn Setbacks Into Success with Amy Shoenthal
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Harvard Business Review: How to Build Your Resilience with Susan David
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TEDx: Why Social Health is Key to Happiness and Longevity with Kasley Killam
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TEDx: How to Succeed in Your New Job with Gorick Ng
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TEDx: How to Find the Person Who Can Help You Get Ahead at Work with Carla Harris
Articles/Blogs/Journals
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The History of Life Design
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Forbes: Two Stanford Professors Share Secrets on Designing Your Life
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Stanford Life Design Lab Resources
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What is Career Readiness?
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Experiential Learning – The Essential Ingredient in the Recipe for Career Readiness
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Forbes: How to Find a Purpose in Life – And a Job
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National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE): What Are Employers Looking For When Reviewing College Students’ Resumes?
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Indeed: 10 Ways to Demonstrate Professional Behavior at Work
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The Three Simple Words That Could Elevate Your Career
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Harvard Business Review: How to Build a Great Relationship with a Mentor
Podcasts
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AI And The Future of Work - Explores how AI is changing the workplace.
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Harvard Business Review: IdeaCast - A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.
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Inside Job - A guide to unlocking the connection between work and your overall well-being.
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LinkedIn: Hello Monday - Host Jessi Hempel explores the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
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LinkedIn: Let’s Talk Offline - Unfiltered questions about work-life answered by a Gen Zer and a Millennial.
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LinkedIn: Negotiate Anything - LinkedIn’s guide to mastering negotiation and communication.
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Networth and Chill - Breaks down financial topics into words you’ll actually understand, just as if you were chatting with your best friend.
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TED - From the TED Audio Collection, a wide assortment of podcasts about business, tech, and everything in between.
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The Happiness Lab - Yale Professor Dr. Laurie Santos discusses the latest scientific research and shares some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness.
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The New York Times: Hard Fork - Journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.

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