Webinar: Career Everywhere by 12twenty

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About This Webinar

What if a Career Center could influence more than just employment outcomes? Santa Clara University’s “Career Everywhere” approach shows how career development work can strengthen belonging, boost student well-being, and even support retention — by making career conversations part of how students feel seen, supported, and connected across campus.

Join the SCU Career Team for a look at how their Career Clarity Retreat brings different campus partners together to care for the whole student, not just their resume.

Myriam Bartz,

Assistant Director of Career Development, Santa Clara University Career Center

Myriam serves alumni as well as graduate students in the School of Engineering and the School of Education & Counseling Psychology. She is deeply passionate about empowering individuals to discover and embrace their strengths, unique values, and purpose. Through this strengths-based approach, she helps students and alumni craft intentional internship and job search strategies that lead to meaningful careers aligned with both community needs and industry demands.

Her professional background includes over 15 years at a leading technology company, where she worked in Customer Service and later as a Program Manager in the Executive Briefing Center. In this role, she led cross-functional teams to design and deliver high-impact technology briefings for clients from Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

Myriam is a certified coach through the International Coaching Federation, with a specialization in Positive Psychology, and she holds an MBA from Golden Gate University. She is currently pursuing a degree in Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University with the goal of becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist.

Dylan Houle

Executive Director, Career Center, Santa Clara University

Dylan Houle is the Executive Director of the Career Center at Santa Clara University. He brings over a decade of experience working across student success, internships, and alumni engagement, and is known for creating practical ways to build strong campus partnerships that help students thrive.

Dylan is the host of the Career Services Leadership podcast, where he talks with leaders across the field about what’s working, what’s changing, and what the future could look like. He’s also pursuing a doctorate focused on the disconnect between how important career outcomes are to students, families, and the public, and how institutions actually prioritize career services.

His work centers on building campus cultures where career conversations and opportunities happen everywhere — not just in one office — so students are better supported for life after graduation.

Vania Tong

Associate Director of Career Development and Campus Integration (STEM), Santa Clara University

Vania is a firm believer that career, in all of its adventurous, anxiety-provoking, exciting, and frustrating realities, is rarely linear. Hence, she has a strong passion for and commitment to partnering with students and the greater campus community to empower students with the tools, framework, courage, and confidence to pursue and actualize their professional goals. In her tenure as a non-profit and higher-ed professional, Vania has pivoted nimbly and effectively between being an empathetic coach and strategic program designer. Her work has supported refugees, asylees, new immigrant youth, first-gen students, and university students across Los Angeles, New York City, Peru, and the greater Bay Area. Vania holds a M.S. in Social Work, focusing on program design & evaluation and international social welfare from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts, with a minor in Cognitive Science (Human Computer Interaction) from the University of California, San Diego.

Jeff Beavers

Moderator | VP of Business Development, 12twenty

Jeff Beavers has accumulated over 25 years of experience spanning campus recruiting, career services, and educational technology software systems. He has held key leadership roles at University of Illinois, Michigan State University, GE, Whirlpool Corp, AbbVie, and Yello. Currently, he serves as a member of the 12twenty partnerships team working globally with universities and employers. He also leads a 4-year USAID project in Africa, overseeing the launch of career centers at universities across Mozambique to support workforce and economic development.