As Director of the Howard University Career Services Office (CSO), Mr. Kim R. Wells leads Howard’s central and primary office for career and professional development services. Key CSO services include one of the nation’s busiest campus recruitment programs, vibrant student career consultation and career education programs, hosting one of the nation’s oldest job fairs, two dynamic career weeks, managing comprehensive online career development services.
Mr. Wells also leads numerous career development special events and initiatives for campus including the Offices’ Global Connections initiative to assist international students in finding career opportunities in their homelands, and special initiatives involving targeted populations such as assisting students in the school of Divinity in development strategic career development plans to integrate their divinity training with modern organizational skill sets needed in today’s modern church organizations. 
Mr. Wells came to Howard University after working in the corporate world primarily in the areas of Human Capital Management, Strategic Communications, and Career Development. Mr. Wells has worked with prominent Washington area consulting firms including Vantage Human Resources Consulting, and Booz-Allen & Hamilton Consulting. Mr. Wells’ diversity of experience also includes working in Career Services at American University, and Directing Co-Curricular Programs for Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale.
As a consultant Mr. Wells has worked on notable projects which have included Diversity Training and Performance Development initiatives at PEPCO, Management Development Programs and Strategic Planning Initiatives for Health and Human Service’s Health Resources and Services Administration, Strategic development and communications strategies for the Pentagon’s Army University Access On-Line Program, and Developing Strategic Development and Modernization strategies for divisions within the IRS. 
Mr. Wells is very active with advisory committee initiatives which include Monster Trak.com, the White House HBCU Career Development Initiative, and the National Association of Colleges and Employers Diversity Advancement Committee, Universum Communications Advisory Counsel, The Partnership for Public Service Career Services Task Force, The Fields Road Elementary School of Montgomery County MD- Principle’s Advisory Board & African American Parent Liaison Coordinator, and is an Advisor to Webcast Resume, a start-up diversity professional development organization.  
Mr. Wells is also a freelance writer and has published several articles on career and professional development trends with national publications including Black Collegian Magazine, Minority MBA Magazine and Graduating Engineer & Computer Careers Magazine. Mr. Wells has also been quoted in prominent African American publications such as Ebony, Black Enterprise, and Honey Magazine. Mr. Wells has also been interviewed for National Public Radio, Marketplace Program, and interviewed on HUTV, and CTV on their dynamic Trailblazer  personal and professional development program.  

Mr. Wells earned his MA in Organizational Communications from Howard University, and a BA in Liberal Arts Sociology with a concentration in Human Resource Development from the College of NJ.