Career Treks
Since 2014, the Leeds Career Trek program has brought over 600 students to visit companies all throughout the United States. Attending a career trek allows our students the chance to learn from and network with alumni, immerse themselves in different company cultures, and be presented with unique opportunities. Previous companies that have hired Leeds students after attending a career trek include NBCUniversal, LinkedIn, The Walt Disney Company, Slack, Salesforce, Ralph Lauren and The New York Times.
Students are responsible for funding their Leeds Career Trek experience and we do have financial stipends available. We have given out over $75,000 in stipends since 2014. Are you an individual or business interested in donating to our trek scholarship fund? You can make your tax deductible donation here.
All Leeds undergraduate students are eligible to apply for treks. Please see Burridge Trek applications below, all other applications are available here: https://leeds.tfaforms.net/f/CareerTreks
Please note: all spring trek applications are CLOSED.
Local:
Denver: Accounting
Date: March 7th
Companies: CohnReznick, Crowe, and KPMG
Application Status: CLOSED
Denver: Finance
Date: March 14th
Companies: FirstBank
Application Status: CLOSED
Denver: Management
Date: February 21
Companies: Analytic Partners & VF Corp
Application Status: CLOSED
Denver: Marketing
Date: April 4th
Companies: Colorado Ballet & more
Application Status: CLOSED
Non-Local:
NYC (Burridge): Finance
Dates: March 3rd - 5th
Companies: Asset Management/Sales & Trading
Application Status: CLOSED
London, England
Dates: March 24th - 28th
Companies: Catapult Sports, Amazon & more
Application Status: CLOSED
Los Angeles (Burridge): Finance
Date: April 7th - 9th
Companies: Wealth Management
Application Status: CLOSED
Austin, Texas
Date: April 14th - 17th
Companies: Google, Charles Schwab, & more
Application Status: CLOSED
Questions? Reach out to leedscareer@colorado.edu.
This was single handedly the best thing I did with my time while at Leeds.
- 2019 Career Trek Participant
Leeds visits Chicago every other year as a part of our career trek series. Our latest focused on the differences between for-profit and non-profit businesses and visited companies such as the Chicago Cubs, Google and YWCA.
Leeds visits Los Angeles every other year as a part of our career trek series. Our latest trek focused on the entertainment, marketing and media industries and visited companies such as Disneyland, CBS, Netflix and Snapchat. We will be visiting LA again in the spring of 2024.
Leeds visits New York each year in November as a part of our career trek series. We have visited a variety of companies within the fashion, media, marketing and technology spaces. Previous companies have included Chanel, Fendi, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, L'Oreal, The New York Times, NBCUniversal, LinkedIn and Spotify. Each year is different and so we cannot guarantee we will visit these companies again. We also set up coffee chats and/or shadow days with our alumni across the city.
Leeds visits San Francisco each year in the spring as a part of our career trek series. Our latest trek focused on the technology and sales industries. We visited companies such as LinkedIn, Salesforce, Slack and Twitter.
Leeds visits Seattle every other year as a part of our career trek series. Our latest trek focused on the operations, sustainability and technology industries and visited companies such as Amazon, Lyft and T-Mobile.
This trip made me so proud to be a part of Leeds and I am now more excited than ever to start my professional career.
- 2017 Career Trek Participant
Denver
Interested in pursuing a job or internship in Denver? Attend the Denver Career Trek! Learn about industries and company cultures and meet alums and potential future employers all in Denver. The Denver Career Trek typically occurs twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring.
"Loved this trek! It was really awesome to get some insight on different companies and what they do. I liked the diversity of the companies we visited. I would do this again in a heart beat!" - Denver Trek Participant, Marketing '16
Previous visits included Craftsy, SolidFire, Zayo Group, Red Door Interactive, Elevated Third, MillerCoors, Uber, Ibotta, ReadyTalk, Ping Identity, Sterling-Rice Group, Metric Theory, KPMG, Grant Thornton, McKinsey, Denver Health, and many others! Email leedstreks@colorado.edu for additional details or to apply.
I LOVED the fact that we met CU alumni from many of the companies. This made it very easy to network with them because we all had something in common. The diverse selection of companies we visited gave us insight on the many stages and types of companies. I've never considered working for a startup until the trek and now I can't stop thinking about it!
- 2018 Career Trek Participant