What Can Career Coaching Do for You?
U Career Success coaches meet with students like you one-to-one to share personalized advice to help you focus your career visions and achieve your professional goals.
Coaches can guide you in exploring internship and career opportunities, writing strong resumes and building connections with organizations in art, teaching, entertainment, graphic design, photography, printmaking, film, and more.
First-year student, new Fine Arts major, ready to graduate, or anywhere in between--your coach is ready to prompt you through each stage of your career journey.
Career Coaches Can Help You:
Practice job interviews
Find gig work
Create a unique brand
Meet Our Career Coaches
Samantha Wisell
Samantha has found deep fulfillment and joy in her own evolving career journey and is passionate about helping students to build the foundation to do the same. She has always enjoyed learning about humans and being in a position of impact and support. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Utah, she started her career working in residential treatment and then provided intensive in-home interventions with families and youth. She went on to complete a master’s degree in School Counseling and served as a high school counselor for nine years.
Her approach to career coaching is rooted in empowering students with practical tools and resources to make informed decisions that align with their goals and identity. She learns alongside students, celebrates creativity and progress, and offers supportive guidance through challenges, transitions, and moments of uncertainty.
Favorite Movies: Inside, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Favorite TV Shows: Saturday Night Live, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Last of Us, Glow
Passions: Beach Volleyball, Running, Camping, Traveling, Horticulture
Creative Side: Macrame, cross-stitching, sketching landscapes and plants when camping, writing haikus, hiding in the back of hip hop dance classes and trying to keep up, stitching her dogs’ mangled dog toys into new grotesque creatures for them to destroy again.
Additional coaches coming soon!
Career Resources
Have an online interview? Our Career Studio rooms are equipped with proper lighting, camera, sound, microphone, and backdrop.
Stop by GARFF 1300 to borrow complimentary professional clothes for that important interview, career fair, etc.
Get a professional headshot taken to use on your LinkedIn profile, presentations, and more.