Career Design Program
Gain the structure and accountability you need to find a more fulfilling career that leverages the skills and passions you already have.
Design your next chapter.
Feeling stuck? Questioning your direction? This is your next step. The UW Alumni Career Design Program is a guided, community-powered online experience that helps you take action — without quitting your job or starting from scratch.
You’ll spend 30 days reconnecting with what matters, exploring new directions, and building a flexible plan for what’s next — whether you’re seeking more purpose, better pay or a career that finally fits your life.
This four-week course starts on March 14, 2026. Enroll by February 21 to save $50.
Build the Career You Deserve.
This program will give you clarity and confidence to identify your career options.
IF YOU ARE:
- Curious how your strengths and experience translate to other career paths
- Feeling bored, burnt out or underappreciated in your current role or under-recognized in your current role
- Transitioning to a new phase of life and want to reinvent your career
NEW THIS SESSION:
When you’re ready, you’ll Launch your next step through a self-paced phase that helps you put your plan into action and land your next role with confidence. This is included in the price of the course and can be integrated when you’re ready!
With a proven process and support from career design experts and fellow alumni, you’ll move forward with clarity and confidence—even in uncertain times.
You don’t need all the answers — just a next step
The UW Alumni Career Design Program is a collaborative, guided experience designed to help you explore meaningful career paths — not pressure you into a single “right” answer.
Expert Facilitation
Led by Mission Collaborative, leaders in career change and life design.
Proven Career Design Framework
Learn how to prototype career paths, not just think about them.
30-Day Guided Experience
Weekly structure keeps you moving forward and building momentum alongside fellow Huskies.
Save as a UW Alumni Association member:
All registrants can save $50 on registration with Early Bird Pricing, through Feb. 21:
Join risk-free with our money=back guarantee. Up to $1,000 in scholarships will be awarded by Mission Collaborative to those who demonstrate financial need. (Find the scholarship application link below the enrollment buttons on the sign-up page.)
— Enrollment closes on March 9, 2026.
What Fellow Huskies Say
“I was felling pretty paralyzed about my next career moves, and this program helped me organize my thoughts and craft a strategy for how to move forward. It felt like a gift I gave to myself.”
—UW Alumni participant
“The program provided a useful structure and framework for considering the next move in my career. It helped me prioritize what I want and facilitated a supportive cohort of others going through a similar process.”
—UW Alumni participant
Not a UWAA member yet?
Join now and save up to $100 on enrollment. UWAA members also enjoy many other benefits and help support our programs for UW’s alumni, students and friends.
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