Learn How to Chart Your Career at Duke

If you are a Duke employee interested in authoring a new chapter in your career at Duke, there is a resource available to give you the tools to do it.

Organized by the Duke Career Resource Center, which is part of the recruitment division of Duke Human Resources, the “Your Career at Duke” program is open to Duke University and Health System employees. The primary goal is to provide employees with the knowledge necessary to advance – or figure out how to advance – their career within Duke.

The free, confidential workshop is comprised of three one-hour sessions from 5:30-6:30 p.m. The next workshop will be held at Duke Human Resources at 705 Broad St. on May 3, 10 and 17. There are others scheduled for June, August and November.

New material is covered at each one-hour session: The first session covers how to write a competitive, strong, résumé. The second goes over inner workings of Duke’s internal transfer process and the third session focuses on learning and fine tuning behavioral-based interview skills.

Denise Motley, Duke’s director of recruitment, said that in addition to learning how to move ahead at Duke, the sessions offer a chance for employees to evaluate what abilities they can bring to a new position.

“Assessing your own experience to determine how you can fill gaps in the areas in which you want to move into and identifying core transferable skills are critical success factors to optimizing your potential,” Motley said.

Added C.T. Woods-Powell, education and training coordinator with the Duke Career Resource Center: “Employees take ownership of their desire to explore a career change, advancement or enhancement within their current roles.”

Approximately 60 employees completed sessions in 2017.

“Duke is very much into helping employees develop their career path,” said Marcia Robinson, senior recruiter with Duke Human Resources. “Employees don’t always understand the steps involved in making that happen. We offer guidance in this regard.”

Amy Duffy, recruiter with Duke Human Resources and one of the program’s instructors, said the program draws employees from nearly every corner of Duke and that the uniting feature among attendees is a desire to take charge of their futures at Duke.

“This class does not equal your ticket to a new job; taking this class equals your ticket to drive your career,” Duffy said.

For more information, visit: https://hr.duke.edu/training/career-resource-center