Lisa Vázquez Vigil

Senior Career Consultant

Lisa Vázquez Vigil is a San Antonio native, after working many years within the Colorado State University system. An alum of CSU-Pueblo, she received her Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications and a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from CSU-Global. Since 2011, Lisa has gained experience in higher education, working in Admissions, Financial Aid, First Year Advising, Concurrent Enrollment, and Career Development.

Currently, Lisa sees students within the College of Sciences. She welcomes questions regarding career assessments, job & internship search strategies, résumé assistance, mock interviews, or other related career engagement areas. Lisa also serves as a liaison for specialized career development programming for her affinity groups including Latinx and DACA/Dreamer students, as a liaison for the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), and as a supervisor for several UCC student employees. In Summer of 2021, she began the rollout of the new ‘Runner Career Launch program to assist on-campus supervisors with resources to provide to their students for professional development. In Fall of 2021, Lisa trained as a CliftonStrengths Champion for Students, and is hosting a program to offer the Top 5 workshops to various student groups across UTSA.

Her passion for fitness and health also leads her to be a Rowdy New U Wellness Champion and hopes everyone finds a way to take care of themselves emotionally, physically, and mentally.

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Inaugural Science Semana wins big!

Science Semana (Spanish for “week”), was ambitiously planned, and well-executed. The College of Sciences Student Success Center (COS SSC) hosted events each day, incorporating fun, food, alumni guest speakers, employer partners, and more. As a participant and COS cheerleader, I was …

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Questions? We’ve got answers!

A team of Virtual Peer Mentors (VPMs) is ready to help you on our website all day! Stop by the Chat Feature at careercenter.utsa.edu and get your questions answered ASAP. The team can share about our resources, assistance with job …

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AFCEA Alamo Chapter Event

The energy was palpable at the recent Alamo Chapter Event (ACE) for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).  Members from across various military branches, as well as vendors and those in academia, came together at the beautiful La …

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‘Runner Career Launch initiative is a go!

After a year’s culmination of work, feedback from current supervisors, and the rollout of a brand new website, ‘Runner Career Launch is here! This initiative is a way to incorporate resources and opportunities for on-campus student employees, to be used …

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Virtual HACU Experience – 2020 to now

Over the last year, almost everything in our world has been upended. However, groups like the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities  (HACU) have kept pushing onward and upward. As a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), UTSA is able to …

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Tech Bloc

After attending a few days of #SAStartupWeek, I caught the cool, hip, entrepreneurship and tech bug (which coders will help me figure out and get rid of, ha ha).  In all seriousness though, Tech Bloc SA is growing into a …

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Internship Week with CSPD

All last week, September 24-27, the Center for Student Professional Development (CSPD) hosted a series of focused events (A.S.K., S.E.E.K, K.N.O.C.K, O.P.EN.) which provided students a plethora of information regarding internships and experiential learning.   I enjoyed hearing so much regarding …

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NACE 2019 Conference Recap

Be sure to check out the amazing re-cap of this year’s event! So many insights on Career and Employer trends which could be helpful to you in a future job or internship search. Thank you to Jeffrey Moss for the …

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Cyber Security Focus – Part 2

The focus of a Cyber Security conference recently held in San Antonio, was to serve as a showcase for new products, software and other technology to enhance an organization’s options to protect and/or counter cyber attacks.  Many of the vendors …

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Cyber Security Focus – Part 1

Many students have big goals, hopefully you are one of them, of becoming top industry performing cyber security phenoms…but are you sure you are taking the necessary steps to get there?

Recently, a cyber security fair hosted several leading cyber …

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