Career Services

Meet Our Staff

Director: Susan Linder
Career Counselor
E-mail: linder@suu.edu

As the Director of Career Services, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you and invite you to visit SUU's Career Services Center.

For the last 15 years I have been a career development specialist; prior to that I was a professional French hornist. I hold a Master's degree in Counseling from Phillips Graduate Institute and am a National Certified Career Counselor. In 1996 I relocated from Santa Monica, California where I worked in Career Development at Pepperdine University and maintained a private career planning practice: Career Portfolios.

At SUU I enjoy helping students with both planning and implementing their careers -- from choosing a major to securing a job after graduation. I am available for individual appointments and drop-ins. Stop by Sharwan Smith 101, call 586-5421, or e-mail me: linder@suu.edu

In addition, Career Services offers many workshops in Career Choice, Resume Writing, Interviewing, and Job Search Skills. I encourage you to participate and learn the skills that will prepare you to identify and present yourself successfully to potential employers.

Assistant Director: Michael Carmine                                                                                                                                                           Employer Relations, Internship and Career Fair Coordinator                                                                                                            Email: carmine@suu.edu

Michael, who has been with SUU since January 2008, handles Employer Relations for full time career employment and serves as the Internship/Career Fair Coordinator for Career Services.  

Michael has worked for SYSCO Foodservices Company, Tyson Foods, and Pepsi Bottling Group.  He has a very extensive background in sales and market analysis.  Before joining SUU he worked for the University of Hawaii “Kapi'olani Community College” on Oahu.

Students are encouraged to come by to discuss internship opportunities and job search strategy.  He hosts workshops throughout the Fall & Spring semesters: Internet/Federal and Government Job Search, Internship Orientation. 

Employers with questions concerning On-Campus Recruitment, Career Fairs, Class Presentations, are encouraged to contact Michael.

Michael just recently moved to Cedar City from Hawaii. He loves to Scuba dive (PADI Dive Master) and travel. He and his wife have one child.

Student Employment/Education Specialist: Stacia Thomas
Education Careers & Part-Time Jobs
E-mail: thomas_s@suu.edu

Stacia, who has been with SUU since March 1988, is the Student Employment/Education Specialist for Career Services. She posts student employment opportunities in the Career Services office and also on the web site.  Employers on and off campus are contacted regularly for vacancies.  Students who have concerns regarding student employment are encouraged to visit with her.  Stacia also coordinates the annual Student Job Expo at the beginning of each Fall semester.

In addition, she publishes the Teacher Education Bulletin on the Career Services website, sends out credential files, recruits school districts to interview on campus and coordinates SUU's participation in the Utah Association for Employment in Education. Each semester she visits with both elementary and secondary teacher education "block" classes to explain credential files, interviewing techniques, and trends in teacher placement. 

Stacia also coordinates the completion of the Graduate Report which compiles information on students after graduation to determine their employment status.

A transplant from New York State, Stacia loves to go fishing, camping and more fishing. She and her husband have three children.

Secretary: Marla Bingham
General Information
E-mail: bingham@suu.edu

Marla, who graduated from SUU in 1990 with a degree in business administration, is the full-time secretary for the Career Services Department and coordinates the front office. She answers phones and front counter inquiries, and assists students with part-time on-campus and off-campus employment. Marla assists students with the initial processing of payroll forms for work-study and regular payroll. She takes registrations for career workshops and assists in scheduling employment interviews with other career services employees. Posting of full-time employment positions on the web is also one of her duties.

Prior to working in Career Services, Marla managed SUU's Summer Evening Concert Series and was assistant director in the Lectures/Special Projects Office where among her various duties she facilitated SUU's Convocation Lecture Series for ten years. A transplant from Tacoma, WA. via Milwaukee, WI., Marla can be found tending her garden in Parowan when she is not on campus.

If you need assistance in the above areas or have suggestions for Marla, you can e-mail her at bingham@suu.edu, or call 435-586-5420, or come to Career Services in Room 101 at the Sharwan Smith Center.