Multilingual Career Development Day (MCDD)

7th Annual Multilingual Career Development Day:
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024, 9:30AM to 3:00PM
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Campus Center Ballroom

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATORS REGISTER HERE Register by Friday, March 1

EMPLOYERS AND ORGANIZATIONS REGISTER HERE Register by Saturday, March 23

COMMUNITY PARTNERS REGISTER HERE Register by Saturday, March 23

What is the Multilingual Career Development Day (MCDD)?

MCDD is an annual event hosted by the Hawai‘i Language Roadmap Initiative, Hawai‘i State Office of Language Access, the Hawai‘i Department of Education, and UH-Mānoa National Foreign Language Resource Center. The event brings together the State Seal of Biliteracy student applicants and other promising multilingual students in Hawai‘i with the goal of celebrating the linguistic strengths of these students, fostering their development as future multilingual leaders, and helping them envision their capacity to respond to community and workforce needs and cultivate positive change.

2018 MCDD

Program Philosophy

MCDD is designed to encourage students to work together on various tasks, problems, and projects using their multilingual skills and perspectives. To enhance learning and support a collaborative-based pedagogy during the event, the Roadmap will pair students with community partners who are multilingual professionals from a range of backgrounds including the private sector, government agencies, non-profits, and the UH-System. The community partners will share their personal and professional experiences and support students in thinking about how multilingualism is important in our workplaces and communities.

Program Highlights

  • Speaker panel with community leaders, kupuna, and Roadmap alumni
  • Problem-solving tasks for language access, and for multilingual community resilience and workforce development
  • Resume and interview practice
  • Multilingual Career Fair and more!

To learn more check out the:
2024 MCDD schedule
Multilingual Career Fair Employer List

History

To learn more about previous Multilingual Career Development Days, click the links below:

1st Multilingual Career Development Day 2018 – March 28, 2018

2nd Multilingual Career Development Day 2019 – April 3, 2019

3rd Multilingual Career Development Day 2020 (Suspended due to COVID-19 Concerns; please visit our Resources tab to access the on-line videos and training developed to support Seal of Biliteracy graduates from the Class of 2020) – March 25, 2020

4th Multilingual Career Development Day 2021 – held virtually on March 31, 2021