Student Leaders

Professional Branding: Resumes, Cover Letters, LinkedIn

Highlighting your student leadership position on your Resume, Cover Letter, LinkedIn, and other professional branding documents is a useful way to show transferable skills to employers and to express your unique talents and abilities. Learn ways on how to leverage your leadership professional brand [HERE].

Interviewing

As a student leader, you have a unique ability to connect leadership experiences to internships and jobs you may be applying for, displaying elevated levels of responsibility, time management, autonomy, and authority. Learn more about how you can utilize your leadership skills in interviews by visiting the following page [HERE].

 

The Roger Connection

Stay connected with Alumni on The Roger Connection. Connect with Hawks across the industry, locations, and job functions, and use your student leadership experience as an entry point to connect with Hawks of similar experience!

Staying Involved

Looking to expand your leadership roles? Want to learn more about how to get engaged at RWU? Visit RWU’s Clubs and Organizations page [HERE] to view a plethora of opportunities to engage and exercise leadership skills on campus.

Hawks Leadership Academy

The Hawks Leadership Academy was conceptualized around the theory of the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. The Social Change Model of Leadership Development approaches leadership as a purposeful, collaborative, values-based process that results in positive social change. The Hawks Leadership Academy allows students to select from a multitude of experiences that the University offers. Learn more by visiting the following page [HERE].

Applying to be a Student Leader?

Applying to be a student leader on campus? Be sure to connect with your career advisor to review your personal branding documents and practice your interviewing skills ahead of your application! Visit Handshake today to make an appointment.

LOCATION

Phone
(401) 254-3224
Email
Address

One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809

SERVICE HOURS

Monday 9:00-4:00 PM
Tuesday 9:00-4:00 PM
Wednesday 9:00-4:00 PM
Thursday 9:00-4:00 PM
Friday 9:00-4:00 PM
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed

The Center for Career and Professional Development's service hours are Monday - Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm.

The CCPD does not offer same-day appointments with Career Counseling Staff.

Drop - In Career Lab Appointments with a Career Peer Advisor occur 10:00am-3:00pm in GHH 117.