Women

Welcome! This community is space for women students to access Career Center services and University support. You will find job search resources, ways to connect with on-campus groups, and strategies for identifying employers who respect and affirm people of all identities and orientation. These resources compliment the information provided in the Career Communities, where you will find resources for specific industries and areas of study.

To discuss or share additional resources for this affinity group, please contact Carol Balk at carol.balk@pitt.edu.

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Ways to Empower Women in the Workplace

As a Woman-Owned Business, we are proud to uplift women in our organization daily and celebrate women everywhere who have used their voices to propel their careers forward. We put together a list of eight tips to empower women within …

By Career Center

Attention Women Veterans

For Women, With Women, By Women

Focus Forward Fellowship is a nationally competitive professional development and networking program to help women student veterans and active duty service members excel on their home campus and in their civilian careers.

Applications for …

By Career Center

Improving communications: 12 qualities expert communicators have — and how you can gain them

Communicating can be downright difficult sometimes. However, if you’re an entrepreneur, then there’s no way around it — you need to become a good communicator, whether you want to or not.

To find out how, we asked members of Young Entrepreneur …

By Career Center

Student Spotlight: “Very Powerful Women”

Maddy Laurash hadn’t considered using the Career Center until she was employed by it. The spring 2022 graduate was hired during the spring semester of her sophomore year to be a mentorship program assistant for Pitt Link, a program that …

By Dionna Dash

Student Spotlight: “A Just Education”

Having so many diverse interests can be difficult for incoming freshman who are trying to decide what to study, which internships to seek out, and which careers to pursue. For current senior Delphie Backs, this problem drove her to the …

By Dionna Dash