Faculty & Staff Engagement Hub

The Toppel Career Center has a variety of engagement options for faculty and staff to work together to support students in their career journeys. Join the Career Champions Network and review the Faculty Toolkit for additional ideas on how we can partner in the career education of students. On this page, you will also find key career resources and events for students at the U.

For students seeking career support and guidance from Toppel, please refer them to our drop-in career coaching hours.

Career Champions Network

Through a series of interactive workshops, faculty and staff will feel more prepared to assist students with their career development. RESUMES IN SPRING 2025.


Faculty Toolkit

Provides an overview of Toppel and Career Readiness, a Faculty Engagement menu, a student email template, and syllabus/assignment examples.

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Workshop Request

Why cancel class when you can rely on us? Dedicated Toppel staff are available to present to your class and programs on a variety of career-related topics.


Faculty & Staff Consultation Request

Faculty & Staff can meet with Toppel to discuss their curriculum or programming ideas, goals, and needs for supporting their students.

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Resources for Faculty & Staff

In this section, you will find selected resources supporting faculty and staff at the University interested in staying up-to-date with career events, integrating career readiness into their coursework, and learning about where our graduating students have launched their careers.

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Top Career Resources for Students

In this section, you will find the top resources offered to students by the Toppel Career Center. Click on View All Top Resources for a full list.

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Toppel Highlights

Laralyn Jackson poses in the NBC 6 studio as her internship comes to a close. Photo courtesy of Laralyn Jackson

Toppel to TV: How the Toppel Career Center guided Laralyn Jackson to success – TheMiamiHurricane.com

Endowment fund helps undergraduates explore career opportunities – News@TheU

Jumping into the job hunt – News@TheU

Need career advice? I'm a career champion!

Toppel Welcomes the Newest Career Champions from Spring 2024!

Career Crawl reaches the Big Apple– News@TheU

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Faculty & Staff Mentors on Cane2Cane

Cane2Cane is a career and mentorship network coordinated by the University of Miami’s Toppel Career Center. The Cane2Cane mission is to connect students and alumni with a community of industry professionals (alumni, faculty & staff, and friends of the University) for opportunities to explore career paths, prepare for the workplace, and establish new connections in their network. 

Andrea Jimenez

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Miami, FL
  • Director, Online Programs University of Miami - Frost School of Music
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Lori Maroon

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Coral Gables, FL
  • Senior Manager The University of Miami School of Law
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Leah Quinones

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Miami, FL
  • Adjunct Professor Barry University
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Alba Bonko

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Coral Gables, FL
  • Associate Vice President, Enterprise Project Management Office University of Miami
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Leticia Tejeda

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Senior Communications Specialist University of Miami
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Meredith Camel

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Miami, FL
  • Executive Director, Communications University of Miami
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Erica Arroyo

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • AVP, Engagement University of Miami
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Gary Wood

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Coral Gables, FL
  • Director, Professor Arts Presenting and Live Entertainment Management
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DANIEL SAMANO

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Miami, FL
  • Mentor University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
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Korrine Rodrigue

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Miami, FL
  • Senior Research Associate III University of Miami
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Veronica Bustabad

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Miami, FL
  • Web Developer University of Miami
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Tracy Pottker-Fishel

Faculty & Staff Mentors
  • Miami, FL
  • Communication Specialist, Student Affairs Communications and Marketing University of Miami
Meet Tracy >

Join the Cane2Cane Community to become a Faculty & Staff mentor. Through the platform, you can also connect with other professionals (alumni, faculty & staff, and friends of the U) across 60+ industries for networking and guest speaking opportunities.

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Job Market DataIn partnership withLightcast logo

Are you looking to use real-time job market data to make informed decisions about your future career path, explore relevant salary data, or identify the skills you need to build or market to get your next role? Use the following tool to explore your options.

There are two ways to navigate this tool:

  1. Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue, or skills you may have that could be relevant for a particular career path.
  2. Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.

First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Career & Industry Guides

Vault offers comprehensive industry and career guides that provide insights into industry work life and advice for students on kickstarting their careers. You and your students can access 170+ guides on our Custom Career Content site to help them explore career paths and gain valuable information that will help them make informed career decisions. To explore guides for a specific career circle, click on View All Guides and apply the relevant filters.

Vault Guide to the First Year of Law School, 2024 Edition

Vault Guide to the First Year of Law School, 2024 Edition

The Vault Guide to the First Year of Law School offers advice for new law students on surviving law school, …

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Vault Career Guide to Law, Fourth Edition

Vault Career Guide to Law, Fourth Edition

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Practice Perspectives: Vault’s Guide to Legal Practice Areas, 2023 Edition

Practice Perspectives: Vault’s Guide to Legal Practice Areas, 2023 Edition

Practice Perspectives is the insider’s guide to what it’s really like to practice at the nation’s top law firms. This …

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Interested in integrating career and industry guides into your coursework, programs, or career conversations? Consult with us!

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Skill Building with LinkedIn Learning

Access and explore on-demand LinkedIn Learning content (courses and videos) that can help your students identify and build skills needed to be successful in their future careers. Students can find relevant LinkedIn Learning content featured for their career circles.

Customer Success: Aligning Expectations in Times of Rapid Change

Taught by Madecraft
Senior customer success manager Kevin Francisco shares strategies for enhancing customer relationships in changing landscapes. First, he’ll guide you in…
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Gamifying Training to Improve Learning Outcomes

Taught by Madecraft
Discover how to leverage gamification to transform your trainings into fun and impactful learning experiences. In this course, instructional designer…
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Relieve Body Tension: Exercises You Can Do at Your Desk

Taught by Desk Yogi
Through the years, we’ve learned a lot about how the body reacts to being at a desk for much of…
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Driving Your Career in a Direction That’s Right for You

Taught by CRFT Productions
This course is designed to help individuals take control of their career trajectory. It encourages you to consider whether you’re…
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Excel for Healthcare: Practical Applications and Skills

Taught by Wuraola Oyewusi
Looking to upskill as a healthcare professional? This hands-on course is designed to equip healthcare workers with practical Excel skills…
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Platform Engineering Foundations

Taught by Dave Swersky
The software delivery lifecycle has only increased in complexity over the years, along with the infrastructure that supports enterprise systems.…
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Building Strategic Resilience

Taught by Madecraft
Are you ready to unlock your resilience potential? Dr. Kiki Ramsey, a positive psychologist and executive coach, guides you through…
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Revenue Enablement: Aligning Sales and Marketing with Your Customer

Taught by CRFT Productions
This course shows you how to align your sales and marketing efforts with customer needs through revenue enablement. Instructor Mark…
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Developing Market Research Project Timelines

Taught by Sarah Weise
Master the art of crafting effective project timelines for market research projects that get you precisely the data you need…
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Getting Started as a Project Procurement Manager

Taught by Seyi Kukoyi
Embark on a journey to mastering the fundamentals of procurement management. Seyi Kukoyi, an expert of this topic, demystifies the…
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The Event Planner’s Guide: Ten Tips for Impactful Marketing

Taught by Madecraft
Looking to make your events stand out? Rachel Romero, a digital and event marketing expert, guides you through creating unforgettable…
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After Effects: Creating a MOGRT (Motion Graphics Template)

Taught by Eran Stern
Create once, use forever: that’s the potential of Motion Graphics Templates (MOGRTs) in Adobe After Effects. With MOGRTs, you can…
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A Bug Bounty Toolkit for Security Researchers

Taught by Bipin Gajbhiye
Bug bounties have proven to be one of the best ways to scale penetration testing and tap into the skills…
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Learning Wrike

Taught by David Rivers
Managing projects and tasks can often be difficult and time-consuming, but luckily there are now tools specifically geared toward project…
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Psychology Fundamentals for Marketing and Sales Success

Taught by Madecraft
This course explores the psychological principles behind buying decisions, giving you a competitive edge in crafting effective marketing campaigns and…
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How to Apologize as a Leader to Build and Maintain Trust

Taught by Mita Mallick
Apologies demonstrate leadership accountability as well as a leader’s willingness and capacity to build strong relationships with teams and stakeholders.…
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Create Your Own Code Assistant with Llama 2, Node.js, and React.js

Taught by Steven Emmerich
Coding assistants sound like a great idea—in theory. But they’re often too generic and lack the ability to personalize individual…
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ASP.NET Core Health Checks

Taught by Christian Wenz
Logging and health checks in ASP.NET Core are vital for enterprise and commercial development. You need to understand what’s happening…
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OpenAI API: Building Voice Apps with the Realtime API

Taught by Morten Rand-Hendriksen
The Realtime API from OpenAI gives you the tools and materials needed to integrate latency-free voice-to-voice interaction in your AI…
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Security in ASP.NET Core

Taught by Christian Wenz
As many as nine out of ten web applications have security vulnerabilities. Luckily, ASP.NET Core developers have a multitude of…
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LinkedIn Learning is free for University of Miami students, faculty, and staff. You must have a CaneID to access LinkedIn Learning

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Skill Building Through Virtual Experience Programs

This section features virtual experience programs and projects from the Forage platform aimed to help students build valuable career skills and get a taste of different industries via short-term, real-world experiences created by top companies across the globe. Take a look at the Forage Catalog to learn more. Click on "View All Experiences" to view all experiences featured across the 10 Career Circles for Students.

Build Your Brand Experience with BCLP

Corporate M&A Experience with White & Case

Contracts Experience with White & Case

UX Design Introduction Experience with Lloyds Banking Group

UX Design Advanced Experience with Lloyds Banking Group

Data Science Experience with Lloyds Banking Group

Interested in integrating any of these experiences into your coursework or programs? Check out this guide and consult with us!

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