What is the Professional Development Series?

The professional development series (pro devo series) is a series of workshops that focuses on key skills and experiences students need to be successful throughout their matriculation at NC State. Through these workshops, students will be able to reflect on past experiences and develop a sense of confidence in themselves that they are prepared to tackle life after graduation.The Professional Development Series and all MSA-sponsored/supported programs and initiatives are open to all students from all backgrounds. 

Fall 2026 Professional Development Series Workshops

If you are interested in signing up for one or more of these professional development series workshop, please click HERE.

Pro Devo Series: Setting Yourself up for Success: Navigating a Semester Workload
Date: Wednesday 16 September, 2026 (5:30pm – 6:30pm)
Location: Multicultural Student Affairs (Talley 4261)
Description: MSA will host a program focused on strategic time management and priority alignment to set students up for academic and professional success at the start of the semester. By treating their workload as a project management cycle, students will learn to identify and plan for high-stakes deliverables, manage competing priorities, and eliminate productivity blocks. Ultimately, this framework teaches students how to optimize their weekly schedule to actively create capacity for career-advancing opportunities, such as internships, research, and campus leadership.

Pro Devo Series: Personal to Communal Wellness: The Physiological Signs of Stress and Overwhelm
Date: Wednesday 30 September, 2026 (5:30pm – 6:30pm)
Location: Multicultural Student Affairs (Talley 4261)
Description: MSA will host a workshop in partnership with Campus health on identifying symptoms of stress, common triggers, and ways of managing it. By first understanding the effects of overload on the body, students will be better equipped at identifying when they are stressed so that they can perform wellness exercises to prevent burnout. These resets will play a role in developing healthy habits before the semester gets too overwhelming so that they are better able to manage their priorities when they come up against stressors.

Pro Devo Series: Resume Building
Date: Wednesday 14 October, 2026 (5:30pm – 6:30pm)
Location: Multicultural Student Affairs (Talley 4261)
Description: MSA will host a workshop on resume building, helping students translate their academic achievements, cultural wealth, and student leadership into a powerful and professional resume. The goal of this program is to aid students in decoding modern hiring practices and help them craft impact-driven bullet points that clearly communicate their unique value to future employers as the summer hiring season comes to a close.

Pro Devo Series: FAFSA/Financial Aid
Date: Wednesday 28 October, 2026 (5:30pm – 6:30pm)
Location: Multicultural Student Affairs (Talley 4261)
Description: MSA will host the FAFSA/Financial Aid workshop to help students understand, navigate, and complete the FAFSA process. By the end of this program, students should be complete or able to complete the FAFSA application on their own for the 2027-2028 academic year.

Pro Devo Series: Interviewing Authentically
Date: Wednesday 11 November, 2026 (5:30pm – 6:30pm)
Location: Multicultural Student Affairs (Talley 4261)
Description: MSA will host a workshop in partnership with the CDC to help students identify and analyse job listings for interviewing excellence. Cultivating professional interviewing skills in which students will be able to present their authentic self while learning as much as they can about an opportunity is an essential part of the application process that students are likely to encounter in the coming months. As first-round interviews approach for summer opportunities, students will learn how to pitch and present themselves as valuable additions to any industry they are interested in being employed in.

Pro Devo Series: Priority Shifting and Routine Preservation
Date: Wednesday 18 November, 2026 (5:30pm – 6:30pm)
Location: Multicultural Student Affairs (Talley 4261)
Description: MSA will host a program centered on helping students maintain the personal and professional skills developed throughout the Fall semester MSA Pro. Devo. programming. The ultimate goal of this program is to aid students in developing time management skills centered on wellness and professionalism, helping them balance priorities beyond the school semester.

If you have any questions about any of the Pro Devo workshops, please contact Assistant Director – Trevis Belle via email [email protected].