In Search of Careers for the Common Good Part One: A conversation with Cesar Osvaldo Mendez Portillo.

In Search of Careers for the Common Good is a four-part series of candid conversations with professionals across three different career stages – early, middle and encore – discussing the ways in which reality and one’s ideals about careers intersect in the search and struggle to find careers for the common good.  In part one of this series, Christopher Wong Michaelson has a discussion with recent University of St. Thomas graduate, Cesar Osvaldo Mendez Portillo, a self-described “banker by accident” who shares his story about the importance of building relationships in his search for a career for the common good.  This series is co-sponsored by the following enterprises at the University of St. Thomas: The Center for the Common Good The Alumni, Career & Corporate Engagement Center The Selim Center for Lifelong Learning  Sponsored by The Melrose & The Toro Company Center for Principled Leadership.Produced by Britt CruzEngineered by Tom Forliti