Stefanie Sidortsova
Contact
- ssidorts@mtu.edu
- Remote
- Strategic Communications Manager, Career Services
Biography
Stefanie leads strategic communications for Career Services at Michigan Tech, helping students, employers, and campus partners stay connected through timely updates and storytelling. She also contributes to news stories, magazine features, and other communications across campus. A writer and lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in public, government, and client relations, she brings a broad perspective to her work. Stefanie loves books, hiking, and time spent with friends and family, and is in the process of opening an independent bookstore, a dream years in the making.
Recent Stories
Huskies In Demand: Michigan Tech’s Career Fair Forges Futures
Michigan Tech's 2025 Fall Career Fair Forged by Nucor is the keystone species of the University's robust career development ecosystem. More than just a job fair, the event directly contributes to the University's exceptional employment outcomes — including a record career placement rate and a median early career salary of $82,400 — and has become a powerful, influential factor in student success. Read More
Michigan Tech Hosts 2025 Spring Fair
Michigan Tech’s 2025 Spring Career Fair brings recruiters from local, national and international employers across multiple industry sectors together with thousands of Huskies looking for full-time, part-time, co-op and internship roles.
The University hosts two Career Fairs annually. Each event is preceded by Career Fest, a series of casual networking and recruiting events where students can meet prospective employers to apply for jobs, ask questions, form relationships and engage in real conversations about their futures. Career Fest also includes lightning resume review events where recruiters review and critique students’ resumes. Read More
MTU Career Fest: Opportunities for Days
Career fairs are nothing new. Every semester, most universities offer students the opportunity to attend a recruiting event to introduce themselves to potential employers and maybe share a resume or two.
While job fairs and career expos have proved their value, Michigan Tech's Career Services office has been going above and beyond for more than a decade. Career Fest, which saw its beginnings in 2013, provides workshops, resume reviews and a series of casual networking and recruiting events during the weeks leading up to Career Fair. This year's fall Career Fest took place Sept. 9-23 and was capped off with Career Fair on Sept. 24 and Interview Day on Sept. 25. Read More
Powering Michigan: Michigan Tech Alumni Lead the Energy Industry Transformation
In the face of finite energy sources, unpredictable weather patterns, and the rising costs associated with both, most utility companies recognize the need for long-term energy plans based on sources that are reliable, renewable, sustainable, and affordable. In 2021, Jackson-based Consumers Energy issued a 20-year clean energy plan that placed the company on track to go coal-free by 2025 and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. Only a handful of utilities in the nation have made similar commitments regarding carbon emissions—and of those, most are aiming for 2050. Read More
ITC Establishes Jon E. Jipping Annual Scholarship at MTU
ITC Holdings Corp., the nation’s largest independent electricity transmission company, has established an annual scholarship fund for civil and electrical engineering students at Michigan Tech to honor its retired chief operating officer and Michigan Tech Board of Trustees member Jon E. Jipping. Read More
From Tech Trails to Beijing: Deedra Irwin Makes Olympic History
In 2008, 16-year-old Deedra Irwin caught a glimpse of her future. As she watched athletes compete at the summer games in Beijing, Irwin began to dream of being an Olympian.
"I wanted to be a track and field star," Irwin says. "I wanted to run."
During her time at Tech, Irwin was a three-sport student-athlete competing in cross-country running, track and field, and Nordic skiing.A competitive runner since fifth grade, the Wisconsin native took up cross-country skiing as a high school sophomore as a way to stay in shape during the snowy offseason. Two of her running teammates— one of whom was future Tech grad Melanie Hoffman '14—talked her into giving it a try. Read More
Q&A: Juliana Strieter
Before joining the Navy, Captain Strieter—a native of Lake Linden, Michigan—came to Michigan Tech to play basketball. She enlisted before finishing her bachelor's degree. As an officer, her tours include deployment to the Middle East with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, serving as Charlie Company commander and assistant training officer in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Read More