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This Monday afternoon, Marymount University hosted a grand opening ceremony for its new Center for Career Development in the Ballston Center<\/a>, celebrating not only a new office location for the department but a restructuring of the Career Development model for Marymount students.<\/p>\n Under the leadership of new Director Joseph Gebbie, the Center<\/a> is collaborating with administrators, faculty and staff to develop a four-year student career success model that also broadens offerings to MU alumni. During the COVID-19 era when global employment has been unstable, these initiatives aim to ensure career-ready competitive talent for employer partners.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want students, from the moment they join Marymount, to start working with the Career Development Center so that they can have a meaningful experience throughout the whole time they\u2019re here,\u201d said Dr. Irma Becerra, President of Marymount University. \u201cThis will prepare them for internships, jobs after graduation, or if they\u2019re going to continue to graduate school at Marymount<\/a>, they can also be successful through that process.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s very fitting that we assemble at the end of the most challenging academic year in American higher education history with an opening, and a true celebration of our new Career Development Center \u2013 a place that will undoubtedly impact the lives of current and future Marymount Saints,\u201d added Dr. William Bisset, Vice President of Enrollment Management & Student Affairs at Marymount University. \u201cIt will act as a symbol to the tenacity of Marymount students, who search for their place in an ever-changing and complicated world.\u201d<\/p>\n