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Forging Career Connections: UCF at the 2025 Florida ACE Conference

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A team of eight from UCF Career Services proudly participated in the 2025 Florida Association of Colleges and Employers (Florida ACE) Conference, held in Orlando, Florida from June 11–13, 2025. This year’s conference theme, “60 Years of Excellence: Shaping the …

By Alexandra Minnick, LCSW

Alexandra Minnick, LCSW Assistant Director

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Published: 05.13.2025

The job market is changing. Increasingly, employers are looking beyond traditional hiring practices like GPAs or job titles and focusing instead on skills-based recruitment—evaluating what candidates can do, not just where they’ve been.

At a recent …

By Emily Flositz

Emily Flositz Career Development Training Specialist

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Join the Dixon Career Development Center on select Thursdays from 12:00–1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom to explore pre-health resources (RSVP …

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