journey

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Features
6
The science of personality
10
So long 9 to 5
How to become a solopreneur
Your career
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Quiz
How productive are you?
Entitlement at work
Careers 101
Overcoming interview
roadblocks
Skills Sharpener
Analytical thinking
Meet fellow alumni
Your career isn’t
going to plan itself.
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Nat’e Gyuton, DM ’15
Alumna Nat’e Guyton leaves
her humble beginnings
behind.
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Anne Marie Lutrick, MSN ’09
Through hard work and
education, this College of
Humanities alumnus
ignites a new career.
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Melissa Melendez, MBA ’08
Jim Cooper, BSM ’98
Isadore Hall, BSB ’99
Mike Gipson, BSB ’07
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Alumni Business
Leroy Reynolds, MBA ’13
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Your university
4 Letter from the president
17 ID Card
42 University news
Opportunities
2 Phoenix Career Guidance System
21 University Marketplace
35 Alumni Business Directory
41 Congratulations, graduates!
On the cover:
Nat’e Guyton
DM ’15
See story, pg. 22
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