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Partnering With You to Prepare Purpose-Driven Graduates

As a parent, you play a vital role in encouraging your student to explore their calling and grow into a confident, Christ-centered professional. At Cornerstone University, Career Services partners with families to guide that process — through personalized coaching, practical tools, and experiences that connect faith, academics, and career readiness. This is the Cornerstone Advantage — preparing graduates to be career- and life-ready!

How Career Services Supports Your Student

Your student’s journey at Cornerstone is designed to help them discover who they are, what they’re called to do, and how to live out their faith through their work. Our Career Services team provides:

  • One-on-One Career Coaching: Personalized guidance to clarify goals and build confidence.
  • Major & Career Exploration Tools: Assessments that align students’ strengths, passions, and calling with career options.
  • Résumé and Interview Workshops: Practical training to develop professional presence and communication skills
  • Internship & Job Placement Assistance: Support in finding meaningful experiences that align with their degree and calling.
  • Faith & Work Integration Events: Opportunities such as The Cornerstone Leadership Forum and Wisdom Conversations that explore how biblical truth shapes leadership and vocation.

Career Outcomes & Readiness

A Cornerstone education is a spiritual and practical investment that delivers lifelong value. Our graduates enter the workforce with moral integrity, strong communication and leadership skills, and the confidence to make wise, ethical decisions that create real impact.

  • Professional Development Programs: Integrated career preparation is built into every major, including our G.O.O.D. Life liberal arts curriculum which is designed to answer life’s big questions from a Biblical perspective.
  • CU LEAD: Our four-year Christ-centered leadership development program.
  • Employer Partnerships & Internships: Access to 1,400+ employers actively recruiting CU students and alumni.
  • Leadership & Service Learning Opportunities: Experiences that combine professional growth with moral formation.
  • Lifelong Career Support for Alumni: Continued access to coaching, tools, and mentoring after graduation.

How You Can Support Their Journey

Parents are powerful encouragers in helping students connect purpose with preparation. You can:

  • Encourage Early Career Planning: Motivate your student to meet with a career coach and attend campus events early.
  • Help Them Prepare for Internships: Discuss the value of real-world experience and professionalism.
  • Talk About Strengths, Passions, and Calling: Facilitate faith-based reflection to help your student explore how their strengths, passions, and sense of calling might be used by God.
  • Review Handshake Opportunities Together: Explore CU’s online platform for internships, events, and jobs.
  • Celebrate Growth Through Each Step: Affirm their progress and growing confidence along the journey.
  • Engage in Campus Life: Visit campus for monthly Community Chapels open to everyone, Family and Homecoming Weekend, Golden Eagle athletics, and other exciting campus events that celebrate student life and faith formation.

Staying Connected

Continue walking alongside your student — and stay connected with Cornerstone’s community and mission.

  • Subscribe to INFLUENCE: Receive the university’s e-newsletter featuring inspiring stories of faith, learning, and impact.
  • Listen to the Wisdom & Influence Podcast: Hear national leaders and CU faculty discuss how biblical wisdom shapes today’s challenges.
  • Attend Career & Life Calling Events: Experience sessions that explore how faith and work come together at CU.
  • Connect with Career Services Staff: Reach out anytime to learn how we help students grow in calling and career.

The CU Promise

Together, we prepare students to live out their faith and vocation — ready to lead, serve, and make a difference for Jesus.

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