Strengthen your qualifications to excel in your career.
Professional Edge is an industry-informed collection of short courses designed to help students develop cutting-edge skills essential in the modern job market.
Build targeted, practical skills in an interactive and engaging format and distinguish yourself in a field of other job applicants. As a participant, you'll receive guidance from instructors informed by the latest business trends and leave with tangible tools and stories you can leverage in your career search.
Whether it’s a basic course in Microsoft Teams or a more advanced course in competitive intelligence or Google Analytics, these University of Oregon-backed credentials can be used to highlight your mastery of highly sought-after skills to potential employers.
As you plan your schedule, take advantage of these largely free one- to two-hour sessions conveniently offered throughout the year.
What do you want to learn?
We're always looking to expand our current offering of workshops. Email us at professionaledge@uoregon.edu to let us know what subjects you'd like to see us explore in the future.
Previous workshops have explored such topics as:
- Design thinking
- Google Analytics
- Investment plan design and presentation
- Storytelling for business presentations
- Tableau
Are you an employer or alumnus looking to get involved?
There are a number of different ways to make meaningful connections within the Professional Edge program. Contact us to learn more.
- Teach a short course.
- Sponsor a new series of skill-building short courses.
- Hire students with demonstrated skill mastery.
Contact
Professional Edge
Lundquist College of Business
1208 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1208
541-346-3303
professionaledge@uoregon.edu
Program Facilitators
- Trish Dorman, Senior Associate Director, Student Engagement and Programming
- Natalie Abele, MBA student
- Swati Yadav, MBA student