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Start your career at UC Davis IET.</h4> <p> </p> <p>UC Davis is powered by students! This is on display in the Information & Educational Technology's (IET) Student Professional Development Program. This program offers opportunities for students to innovate and succeed by building real-world products and services used by your peers and the campus at large. In this paid student employment program, you’ll work closely with other students and IET mentors and use your skills and ingenuity to solve problems across the enterprise. The experience earned in the Student Professional Development Program by our alumni have helped them go on to careers with UC Davis as well as at major tech companies like Amazon, Salesforce, Workday, Tesla, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Google, Teradata, Zillow, Pinterest, RL Liquidators, and Dealpath.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <layout-columns columns="4"> <div slot="column1"> <layout-columns columns="2"> <div slot="column1"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8081/files/media/images/Logo-Amazon2_0.png" width="249" height="75" alt="Amazon company logo"> </div> </div> <div slot="column2"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk8081/files/media/images/Logo-Salesforce1_2.png" width="250" height="75" alt="Salesforce company logo"> </div> </div> </layout-columns> <p> </p> <layout-columns columns="3"> <div slot="column1"> <p> 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