Build a Mission-Driven Workforce

When you partner with Dominican University, you not only contribute to the preparation of the next generation of employees, but also have access to a diverse pool of talented students who can contribute to your organization in meaningful ways—both now and in the future. These professionals understand the nuances of culturally informed decision-making and problem-solving, which makes them stand-out hires. Fortify your employment pipeline by partnering with Dominican.

Dominican also offers opportunities to engage your staff with our exceptional professional development programs. Upskill your team’s next generation of leaders through academic opportunities and targeted training. Your employees can even earn college credits for certain programs. Providing access to credentialing opportunities stands to bolster employee retention and satisfaction.


Explore Partnership Opportunities 

Boost your organization’s success by partnering with Dominican University. Here are some examples of how we can work together:

Ensure your staff stay ahead of the curve. Select programs are available for cohort tuition discounts.
  • High-quality continuing management education with a focus on practical application
  • A personalized experience from program exploration to successful completion
  • Programs and services that empower individuals and organizations to lead

Our self-paced, skilled-based certificates are a quick way to refresh or deepen your skill set. Take them yourself or send your whole team—it's completely up to you. Advance your career through our certificate programs: 

  • Dominican’s experts can deliver professional development sessions, workshops and training for your organization.
  • In some cases, Dominican can even offer academic credit for professional development and training sessions to employees at partner organizations.
  • Dominican’s experts can deliver many undergraduate programs and most graduate programs on site at your organization.
  • All degree-completion (for employees with some college but no degree) can be delivered onsite at your company or online. Similarly, employees can participate in most graduate programs online.

Impart lasting change to propel your organization forward with results-oriented, relationship-based team learning designed just for your staff.

  • Custom-built executive programs or bundled courses
  • Taught by a team of professors and practitioners
  • Yielding new skills for stronger leadership
  • Post jobs and internships, view profiles of applicants, and find top candidates on Handshake, our platform for college recruiting
  • Manage on-campus recruiting visits and interviews on Handshake
  • Request potential job candidates from Brennan. Our staff and faculty will identify, pre-screen, and refer candidates to your organization’s HR department.

Increase your visibility with the next generation of workers and customers and meet our graduate student talent pool when you speak at one of our classes or events. Opportunities include:

  • Guest Speaker to a 1–2 hour daytime or evening business class, on-campus, or online. Share your perspective and stories across most any business discipline.
  • Guest Lecturer to a 2–3 hour evening business class on campus. Prepare a structured lesson and class assignment in accounting, finance, leadership, or marketing.
  • Guest Panelist to a 2–3 hour evening business class on-campus. Provide your feedback and perspective as graduate students refine their case analysis and consulting skills.

Expose students to real-world business perspectives, issues, and opportunities while gaining insights and ideas about your own business.

  • Act as a case study client to a semester-long graduate marketing class. The project may include market research, new sales prospecting, or marketing material creation, scaled to your budget.
  • Take part in our experiential MBA Gateway Practicum Course as a client. The program allows MBA students to tackle a real-world business problem and offers you a fresh perspective and new ideas from the next generation of leaders.

Interested in academic involvement? Let's discuss the best option for your organization.

Events and Networking

There are so many ways to connect with Dominican’s diverse student body to build your workforce or overcome unique business challenges. Here are just a few of the opportunities we offer:

Career Fair

This is a great opportunity to network with an audience of 400+ Dominican undergraduate and graduate students. We purposefully keep our career fair as intimate as possible to ensure that employers can speak with many students. 

Mock Interview Events

This event offers a chance to network with highly motivated sophomores and juniors. Many employer partners find future interns by participating.

Employer Virtual Visits

Employers typically present in a webinar format for about 40-45 minutes, providing an overview of their organization, information about their hiring process, or a career development topic of their choice. 

Classroom Networking Events

Attend final presentations in our junior and senior career development courses to see a showcase of diverse student talent.

Why Hire Dominican University Students? 

Dominican University is recognized as the #1 school for social mobility in Illinois, and our students come to us to learn the necessary skills to advance in their future careers. Faculty encourage students to think outside the box and prepare for leadership. When you partner with Dominican, you access students who have entrepreneurial spirit and dedication. Students who are ready to make their mark on your company.

As a Hispanic-Serving Institution, Dominican University prides itself on providing a welcoming community for all students. Many of our students are first generation and come from diverse backgrounds and income levels. We have approximately 3,000 students total representing over 50+ programs and majors.

The majority of our students work part- or full-time jobs while completing their degrees, utilizing skills learned in the classroom the very next day. Additionally, many majors and programs require students to complete an internship prior to graduation, which means that they are prepared for employment upon graduation.

Faculty encourage students to think outside the box and prepare for leadership that inspires innovation and enables social mobility. Students partner with local businesses for practicums and internships for real-world experience.

Dominican University is located in River Forest, just 10 miles from downtown Chicago, giving our students access to a diverse, urban city. From River Forest to the Magnificent Mile, our students are prepared to work in any environment.

Dominican University has become a top performing University for our company to source diverse, well-rounded candidates. They show a large differentiation in their understanding of each student’s interests, personalities, and strengths to help us identify the best fit for our roles. They are consistently a topic of conversation within our team when we are identifying Universities to partner with.”

Victoria Valentin
Early Career Programs Lead, Morningstar, Inc.

For more information,
please contact:

Aracelis Sanchez-Guerrero
Manager of Collaborative Organizational Partnerships
College of Applied Social Sciences
asanche2@dom.edu
Kathy Meisinger
Director, Career Curriculum and Employer Relations
Career Programs and Employer Relations
kmeisinger@dom.edu