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Understanding Your Job Offer – It’s Not Just About the Salary

Understanding Your Job Offer – It’s Not Just About the Salary

One of the most common mistakes we see early-career professionals make when negotiating is focusing too singularly on base salary. While it’s an important part of your compensation (and …

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10 Best Tech Careers for Neurodivergent Women

TLDR: Neurodivergent women carry an extra layer in tech: late diagnosis, gendered expectations, and a “culture fit” filter that rewards performed neurotypicality. But tech also offers roles where technical skill outranks social performance. Here are 10 roles where that holds …

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Sensory Overload in Adults: Unlocking Neurodivergent Performance

TLDR: The most honest feedback loop in product development is the one you build with your users, not on top of them. Neurodivergent users surface edge cases and friction points others never report, which makes them the best product testers …

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2026 Fall Programming Snapshot Calendar

Please register for events on Handshake.

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Working Nation: Neurodivergent Employees

Neurodivergent Employees
One company’s solution to high unemployment for adults on the autism spectrum
A custom apparel and promotional products business is on a social mission to create employment opportunities for those on the autism spectrum.
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Skill Building Classes

LinkedIn Learning courses are available to all current students.  For Alumni Access please visit LinkedIn Learning to start an account.

Creative Inspirations: Doyald Young, Logotype Designer

Taught by Doyald Young
From humble beginnings in a small Texas town eight decades ago comes legendary typographer, logotype designer, author, and teacher Doyald…

Cybersecurity Policy and Governance for Business Success

Taught by Starweaver
Today’s executives and project managers must unify security standards with legal requirements and client expectations, to create a cohesive program,…

Working On Camera: Video Makeup Techniques

Taught by Rick Allen Lippert
This second installment in On Camera, a series designed to help anyone create a positive impression on-screen, concentrates on enhancing…

iBooks Author Essential Training

Taught by Chris Mattia
Even writers without extensive design or publishing experience find they can publish their own digital books with iBooks Author—and the…

Enhancing Your Productivity

Taught by Dave Crenshaw
Join author and business coach Dave Crenshaw as he shows you the key to enhancing your productivity—focusing on your most…

Infographics: Visualizing Relationships

Taught by Shane Snow
In this course, author Shane Snow shows how to depict complex relationships in an easy-to-understand infographic, or graphic representation of…

Infographics: Planning and Wireframing

Taught by Shane Snow
Join Shane Snow as he reviews the first steps in creating infographics, graphic representations of data—organizing sample data and preparing…

Creative Inspirations: Ed Emberley, Children’s Book Illustrator

Taught by Ed Emberley
Award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Ed Emberley is truly a national treasure, having drawn nearly 100 books. The warmth…

Creative Inspirations: Marian Bantjes, Graphic Artist

Taught by Marian Bantjes
Graphic designer Marian Bantjes has collaborated with numerous design legends, including Debbie Millman from Sterling Brands, Michael Bierut and Paula…

InDesign Secrets

Taught by David Blatner
In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, cohosts of the web’s top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com,…

Creative Inspirations: Stefan G. Bucher, Designer, Illustrator, and Writer

Taught by Stefan G. Bucher
Meet a truly monster graphic designer, Stefan G. Bucher. Stefan’s projects range from his Daily Monsters, to the Daily Letter…

Creative Inspirations: Big Spaceship, Digital Creative Agency

Taught by Big Spaceship
Take a ride in the Big Spaceship with this intimate look at the inner workings of one of the web’s…

Creative Inspirations: Natalie Fobes, Photographer

Taught by Natalie Fobes
This installment in the lynda.com Creative Inspirations documentary series introduces the diverse talents of one of the world’s great award-winning…

Creative Inspirations: Ze Frank, Comedic Digital Savant

Taught by Ze Frank
Ze Frank is one of the most creative and enigmatic people working in digital media. He’s also just plain funny.…

Creative Inspirations: Kit Hinrichs, Graphic Designer

Taught by Kit Hinrichs
Kit Hinrichs is one of the most accomplished and respected graphic designers and illustrators of the last fifty years. A…

CSS Positioning Best Practices

Taught by Bill Weinman
Web designers and coders will be introduced to techniques to improve their results in CSS Positioning Best Practices. Beginning with…

Creative Inspirations: Dale Herigstad & Schematic, Interactive Design Agency

Taught by Dale Herigstad
Welcome to the future of media experience. Meet Dale Herigstad, Chief Creative Officer at Schematic—the company behind some of the…

Troika’s ABC Brand Campaign: Start to Finish

Taught by Troika Design Group
Get an inside view behind the making of ABC TV’s fall promotional and brand image campaign, and watch a 60-second…

Creative Inspirations: Troika Design Group, Design and Branding Agency

Taught by Troika Design Group
Ever wonder who’s behind those cool identity graphics on broadcast and cable TV networks? Come take a peek behind the…

Margo Chase’s Hand-Lettered Poster: Start to Finish

Taught by Margo Chase
Acclaimed graphic designer Margo Chase shows how she created a beautifully hand-lettered poster for a special appearance at the Santa…

Sagehen Connect

Shelsy Zárate Chávez, MPH

Alumni, General Graduate or Professional School Advice
  • Los Angeles, California
  • Program Coordinator Minds Matter Southern California
Meet Shelsy

Sawyer Bock

Alumni, General Career Advice, Give a Presentation/Serve on a Panel, Resume Review
  • Washington, District of Columbia
  • Paralegal / Research Associate Constitutional Accountability Center
Meet Sawyer

Abdullah Shahid

Alumni, General Career Advice, General Graduate or Professional School Advice, Give a Presentation/Serve on a Panel
Meet Abdullah

Sebastian Kinzie

Alumni, General Graduate or Professional School Advice
  • Cambridge, England
Meet Sebastian

Vincent Tenorio

Alumni, General Career Advice, General Graduate or Professional School Advice, Give a Presentation/Serve on a Panel
  • New York, New York
  • Guggenheim Partners
Meet Vincent

Linda Phan

Alumni, General Career Advice, Give a Presentation/Serve on a Panel, Practice Interviews, Recruit Sagehens for Jobs/Internships, Resume Review
  • Educational Strategist Zenith Prep Academy
Meet Linda

David DiTullio

Alumni, General Career Advice, General Graduate or Professional School Advice, Give a Presentation/Serve on a Panel, Practice Interviews, Resume Review
  • New York, New York
  • Infectious Diseases Fellow Weill Cornell Medicine
Meet David

R.J. Maki

Alumni, General Career Advice, General Graduate or Professional School Advice, Give a Presentation/Serve on a Panel, Practice Interviews, Recruit Sagehens for Jobs/Internships, Resume Review, Shadow a Sagehen
  • San Diego, California
  • President, Debt Solutions One Life Advisors
Meet R.J.

Career Resources

International student services are abundant at U.S. colleges – here’s how to tap into those resources.

First-generation college students face additional stress that is often overlooked.

First-generation college students often deal with financial stress and the pressure of family expectations.

Learn more about a congressional internship program in D.C. 

 Compilation of links to the leading Hispanic and Latino professional associations, many with career and job sites of their own, …

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