Students Gain Confidence and Professional Wardrobe at Executive’s Closet Event

September 29, 2025
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With interviews, career fairs and internship prospects right around the corner, the Fowler College of Business offered an extra incentive to dress for success by offering free professional attire to SDSU business students through the Executive’s Closet event held on September 19.

Now in its second year, Executive’s Closet was first envisioned by Tina Tan, director of the college’s Partrick-Clayes Center for Career Development.

Tina Tan, director of the Partrick-Clayes Center for Career Development, helps a student complete the checkout processOpen the image full screen.
Tina Tan, director of the Partrick-Clayes Center for Career Development, helps a student complete the checkout process
 Former student Nayeli Ramirez (‘25, International Business) led the initial research of the initiative, and after she graduated, Daniel Nieto, a career development coach at the center, stepped in to carry it forward.  “After we analyzed a student survey immediately following our career fair last fall, we saw that students had an overwhelming need for professional wear,” said Nieto. “That need inspired the Executive’s Closet, and the response, so far, has been overwhelming. Just in the first hour alone, we had over 70 students stop by to pick up career clothing.”

Nieto spearheaded the effort to encourage the SDSU community to donate new and gently used clothing such as jackets, ties, skirts, blouses and belts before he and his colleagues arranged and displayed all items for students to browse and select. Each student was able to choose up to five items in preparation for the college’s career fair the following week.

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Management/human resources senior, Dawid Sztejna, rushed through the racks of men’s clothes to find shirts that were the right fit before they were all gone. “I’m looking for things that I can wear for interviews,” he said before settling on a blue pinstriped dress shirt.

Parjanya Hebbale Krishna, a graduate student in the management information systems program, displayed his selections as he stood in line to complete the checkout process. “I picked out five pieces of clothing — an overcoat, two shirts and two ties,” he said. “This was a great opportunity to make use of the career center and I was so glad when they were able to do this for us!"

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