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Mission

The Career Center at California State University, San Bernardino empowers students and alumni to develop a lifelong skill set for an ever-changing labor market through exploration, programming, and experiential learning opportunities to meet their personal and professional goals.

National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

The Career Center uses the NACE Core Competencies to guide department programming to ensure students are ready for the professional world upon graduation.

Critical Thinking
Exercise sound reasoning to analyze issues, make decisions, and overcome problems.

Leadership
Leverage the strengths of others to achieve common goals, and interpersonal skills to coach and develop others.

Career Management
Identify and articulate one’s skills, strengths, knowledge, and experience relevant to career goals.

Digital Technology
Leverage existing digital technologies ethically and efficiently, and demonstrate adaptability to new technologies.

Professionalism
Demonstrate personal accountability, effective work habits, integrity, and ethical behavior.

Communication
Articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in written and oral forms.

Global Fluency
Value, respect and learn from diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, and religions.

Teamwork
Build collaborative relationships with colleagues and others, and negotiate and manage conflict.

Meet Our Staff

Career Center Leadership

Sarai Maldonado | Interim Director
P: (909) 537-3682
E: smaldona@csusb.edu
Strengths: Communication, Connectedness, Relator, Analytical, Learner

Counseling Team

Angela Arteaga | Internship Career Counselor | Liaison to College of Arts & Letters/Education
P: (909) 537-3258
E: angela.arteaga@csusb.edu
Strengths: Consistency, Communication, Relator, Woo, Harmony

Jennifer Carhart | Career Counselor | Liaison to College of Natural Sciences
P: (909) 537-3248
E: jennifer.carhart@csusb.edu
Strengths: Relator, Maximizer, Focus, Analytical, Activator

Denise Perez-Flores | Career Counselor | Liaison to College of Business & Public Administration
P: (909) 537-3256
E: denise.perezflores@csusb.edu
Strengths: Responsibility, Learner, Discipline, Restorative, Empathy

Crystal Wilson Otubuah | Career Counselor | Liaison to College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
P: (909) 537-3254
E: crystal.wilson@csusb.edu
Strengths: Restorative, Relator, Communication, Connectedness, Empathy

Diane Kovalsky | Career Counselor, PDC
P: (909) 537-8243
E: kovalsky@csusb.edu
Strengths: Strategic, Learner, Intellection, Deliberative, Relator

Internships

Guadalupe Saldivar | Internship Specialist
P: (909) 537-5571
E: guadalupe.saldivar@csusb.edu
Strengths: Connectedness, Input, Intellection, Strategic, Ideation

Ernesto Saucedo | Internship Administrative Support
P: (909) 537-3247
E: ernesto.saucedo@csusb.edu
Strengths: Harmony, Adaptability, Command, Includer, Restorative

Employer Relations

Edgar Perez | Employer Relations Coordinator
P: (909) 537-3265
E: edgar.perez@csusb.edu
Strengths: Futuristic, Significance, Context, Analytical, Achiever

Support Staff

Kenneth Jacobs | Events Coordinator
P: (909) 537-5290
E: kenneth.jacobs@csusb.edu
Strengths: Intellection, Harmony, Restorative, Connectedness, Analytical

Olivia Nanez-Salazar | Office Manager & Clothing Closet Program Coordinator
P: (909) 537-3251
E: onanez@csusb.edu
Strengths: Context, Learner, Harmony, Discipline, Analytical