Kathy Douglas

As Senior Associate Director, Kathy works collaboratively on general operations, staffing and staff development, strategic planning, budgeting, campus recruiting, and employer and alumni relations with the CPD team, and leads in these key areas:

• Programming: Large Scale Recruiting Events/Environmental Careers/Job Search Skills
• Marketing/Communications (Instagram, e-news, web, print for multiple audiences)
• Resource Development
• Campus-Wide Collaboration with career services offices at Yale (CSAY co-founder)

Kathy advises incoming and returning students, as well as alumni and PhD candidates. She has over 20 years of experience in master's and PhD-level career services at Yale. She coordinated on-campus recruiting for Graduate Career Services, bringing nonacademic career opportunities to PhD candidates in over 70 degree programs.

Kathy has a breadth of knowledge of climate, sustainability and environment-related careers, and expertise in resume, cover letter, personal statement writing, networking, job search research and salary negotiations. She is a certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment and MSCEIT. She is an alumna of the NACE Management Leadership Institute and the NACE Career Coach Program, and trained as a federal career advisor through the Partnership for Public Service.

Kathy is a member of  the National Career Development Association, and the National Association of Colleges and Employers. She has lived in Connecticut for 32 years and is founding neighbor of the Nash Street Community Park in New Haven, a project supported by URI. She holds two master of fine arts degrees, one in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and one in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College.

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