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About HW Works: The Career CENTER at Harvard-Westlake

HW Works is the source for job, internship, research, career, and employment information at Harvard-Westlake. We strive to empower Harvard-Westlake students and alumni in developing the skills, knowledge, experiences, and connections they need to manage their careers.

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Kwaisi France
Director of HW Works

Kwaisi France directs and manages HW Works, the Career Institute at Harvard-Westlake assisting students, alumni, faculty, and employer clients in the development of career education, career identification and search, and pursuit of employment opportunities commensurate with formal academic pursuits. Kwaisi’s job is to continually expand the client/user base and scope of services to ensure provision of the widest array of services possible to the broadest mix of academic and organizational clients. He constantly monitors, analyzes, and evaluates the current scope of services offered through HW Works and plans, implements, and directs new programs of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and those regional affiliates which provide broad opportunities for job development activities.

Additionally, Kwaisi is responsible in ensuring that HW Works is:

  • Providing career advising expertise to students and alumni regarding the job-search process, interviewing, resume, and letter writing, and all other facets of career planning. 
  • Conducting workshops, seminars, and other presentations to student, faculty, employer, and alumni groups.
  • Serving as the primary liaison between Harvard-Westlake, its students and alumni, and potential employers on a state, regional, national, and international scale. 
  • Responsible for fiscal planning and management for career services, including all operations and staffing matters.
  • Advising and interfacing with representatives of industrial, governmental, and educational employers to assist in the most effective use of career services' efforts. 
  • Supporting the marketing of other Harvard-Westlake efforts.
  • Developing new contacts with external organizations for the purpose of expanding employment opportunities for students and alumni. 
  • Reviewing and supervising the on-campus recruitment and interviewing processes as well as resume referral and job-listing services for current students as well as alumni. 
  • Closely coordinating communication with deans, department chairs, and other faculty to ensure that career services are meeting the needs and desires of Harvard-Westlake’s departments, within the limitations imposed by the size of the staff and financial support provided by the school.