Federal partnership offers career development in health and social services

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Fresno State’s Career Development Center has partnered with the Pathways to Public Service Program, an inaugural overseen by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to equip students with the cognition and skills indispensable to motorboat careers successful nationalist service.

The Pathways to Public Service Program, established successful 2019, aims to make a pipeline of diverse, qualified and highly motivated students who volition go the adjacent procreation of nationalist servants, providing effectual wellness and quality services and fostering advances successful medicine, nationalist wellness and societal services.

As members of the program, students can:

  • Participate successful virtual vocation fairs and nonrecreational improvement workshops. 
  • Learn astir the national hiring process. 
  • Serve arsenic field ambassadors for the program. 
  • Network with hiring officials wrong the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • Gain internships and entry-level positions.

Since its inception, the programme has hired implicit 100 students for internships. Students who implicit an internship and conscionable the requirements are past eligible for imperishable employment wrong the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ partnering agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health.

“Having the Pathways to Public Service Program arsenic a spouse is simply a fantastic accidental for our students to commencement gathering their careers successful nationalist service,” said Mary Willis, enforcement manager of the Career Development Center astatine Fresno State. “These types of partnerships hole students to participate the workforce acceptable to marque meaningful contributions and supply the nationalist assemblage with a pipeline of talented, hardworking individuals.”

To larn much astir the concern and different vocation improvement opportunities disposable to Fresno State students, interaction the Career Development Center astatine careers@csufresno.edu oregon 559.278.2381.

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