This is your time to take charge of your career. Through your engagement with Graduate and Alumni Career Development (GACD), you gain the knowledge and networking skills needed to advance you on your life-long career path. We offer you upskilling and opportunities for success as a graduate student and later as an alum. Welcome to GACD!
HireGrad
HireGrad is a career platform dedicated to our graduate student and alumni talent. Join today!
How We Support Your Career
The GACD team supports your career goals with coaching, learning, networking, and upskilling opportunities. Each semester, we offer events on professional branding, job search techniques, networking, and international student support. Check out HireGrad for event details and registration.
Graduate Career Development Resources
Big Interview & Big Resume
Big Interview combines training and interview practice using video lessons and an interactive practice tool. Big Resume, offered within Big Interview, helps you build a stronger resume, faster. Use access code 1917 to register and access both.
The Complete Career Masterclass Collection
Discover the Complete Career Masterclass Collection, featuring a comprehensive suite of insider secrets and techniques to empower your career journey.
International Student Graduate Career Development Resources
HireGrad
The HireGrad career platform offers a comprehensive section, International Student Resources. Resources include webinars, guides, detailed reporting on where Bentley international students have interned over the past 5 years (see CPT reports), and more.
Interstride
Interstride is an essential platform for our international students, offering information on jobs and internships in 80+ countries plus US companies that sponsor international students. You will also find comprehensive country guides, visa and immigration resources, monthly webinars, workshops, and resources curated for international students.
Signature Events
Career Success Summit
Build Connections & Momentum
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Join us for an impressive keynote speaker, expert-led workshops, and additional engaging activities. Explore the essentials to needed to position yourself for career success, no matter where you are in your journey. You’ll find community, increase confidence, and gain valuable skills.
Free for current Bentley graduate students every fall.
Career Conversations: Table Talks
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Career Conversations: Table Talks is a lively, fast-paced networking event that blends learning, conversation, and relationship-building. Designed for all graduate students, this event offers the opportunity to connect directly with alumni and industry professionals in a welcoming speed-meet, table group networking format.
Free for current Bentley graduate students every fall.
Additional Resources
We offer two assessments: CareerLeader, a comprehensive approach to a business career self-assessment, and CliftonStrengths, to discover what you naturally do best and turn your talents into strengths to maximize your career potential.
CareerLeader
To login after you are authorized by GACD:
- Go to CareerLeader and select Register/Sign In (top right).
- Under Users, click First Time?
- Register with your Bentley email and key: bentley-drum
- Create a password and log in. Passwords may only include uppercase, lowercase, or numbers.
- Complete your profile to access the dashboard and begin the three assessments.
- After finishing all sections, access results via the dashboard tiles.
Gallup CliftonStrengths
Speak with a GACD Career Coach for access to CliftonStrengths.
Bentley graduate students work one-on-one with our Career Coaches, who are knowledgeable and connected to industry trends. A variety of appointment options are available on HireGrad.
Welcome to the beginning of your career journey! Each incoming graduate student must complete their Graduate Career Pre-Work. This pre-work positions you for career success as you develop greater self-awareness and fine-tune your professional image.
Keep an eye on your inbox for communications about pre-work and when it is due!
In addition to our Resources Library on HireGrad, we've curated a wide variety of career resources for graduate students.
For all graduate students, go to Graduate Academic Advising & Engagement to learn more about the internship for credit process. For international students, go to The Center for International Students and Scholars (CISS) for information on visa requirements for academic internships.
After a student meets with Graduate Academic Advising& Engagement and (if needed) CISS, then GACD Career Coaches are available to support your internship search.
Bentley boasts an alumni network of 70,000 worldwide. Our alumni actively engage with our students via our many networking events, employer panels, industry events, mock interviews, Career Conversations, Professionals and Alumni in Residence (PAIR) Days, and career fairs.
Be part of our our LinkedIn group to connect, engage in career-related discussions, tune-in to GACD events, and tap into our resources.
We develop 30+ interactive programs each academic semester to support your professional development and job search. We provide you with various opportunities to improve your skills and connect to a global network of alumni, employers and partners through virtual and in-person programs and events:
Students can find and register for our events and programs on HireGrad.
- Career Success Summit
- Career Conversations: Table Talks and Virtual
- MSHFID Networking and Fair
- Combined Undergrad and Grad Career Fairs (2 per year)
- Engaging with the Employer: Site Visits (3+ per semester)
- GACD Industry Information Sessions
- Beyond the Global Seven Accounting Career Fair (Undergrad and Grad)
- Public Accounting Panel (Undergrad and Grad)
- Math, Actuarial, Analytics and Technology (MAAT) Fair (Undergrad and Grad)
- Careers in Finance: Panel and Networking
- Mock Interviews
- Professionals and Alumni in Residence (PAIR) Days
- Plus other webinars and collaborative events across campus and external events
The below list features typical events and programs which are open to all members of the Bentley community but have been designed for our international students. Register on HireGrad.
- Inside the Employer Mind: Career Panel for International Students
- Options After OPT (Immigration Law Firm)
- Academic Internships: Process & Purpose
- From Bentley to Beyond: Coffee Conversations with International Alumni
- Employer Panel with International Student Association
- What Every International Student Should Know About the U.S. Job Search (Undergrad, Grad, and Alumni)
- Shaping Your Global Career
- Plus other webinars and collaborative events across campus and external events
Meet the Team
David Yeo, Associate Director, Operations and Global Career Readiness
Kathleen Purple, Program and Operations Specialist
Contact
Graduate and Alumni Career Development
Pulsifer Career Development Center
Bentley University, LaCava 220
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
gcd@bentley.edu | 781-891-2164
Office Hours
Fall & Spring: Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
Summer: Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET (remote Mondays)
Virtual and in-person office hours and coaching schedules vary.
