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From Carleton to Career
18 June 2013We’ve just bid farewell to the newly graduated Carleton Class of 2013. So what better time to check in with a few graduates from recent years past? We contacted four young alumni to see how they’ve fared and what they’ve learned in the transition from Carleton to work.
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Kimberly Betz ’91 took the helm as Carleton’s new Career Center director in March 2013. We caught up with her for a Q&A about her return to Carleton, the unique strengths of liberal arts grads in the workplace, and her hopes for the Career Center’s future.
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Career Center Welcomes Twenty New Advisors
11 May 2013As one of Carleton’s more valuable yet often-underused resources, the Career Center is constantly looking for ways to better serve the student body. Last Friday, all new Career Advisers gathered in Leighton 304 to share their visions of the Career Center’s future, and make suggestions for how the Career Center can improve.
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Renewable Resources
20 March 2013Jesse Grossman’s business is renewable energy. But on a recent visit to Northfield, the class of 2001 alumnus helped develop a very different renewable resource: Carls.
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Peer Power
20 March 2013In the quest for internships, Carleton students reach out to a powerful untapped network: each other.
In today’s job market, internship experience can be the extra edge that lands a coveted job interview or position. But where can students look for internships, and how do they learn successful tactics to compete for them? With the help of peer Career Advisors, Carleton students are answering those questions for each other.
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Winter Externship Adventures
20 March 2013Some students get bored during Carleton’s six-week winter break. Others get to work. Meet three students who discovered that time flies when you’re immersing yourself in a prospective career (with the help of savvy alumni mentors).
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All Aboard for Beantown
20 March 2013Take 26 students on two career tracks with at least one point of intersection. Add 60 volunteers at more than 25 locations. Now bring them all together in just four days. Is this some kind of brain-bending logic problem? No, it’s the itinerary for our winter break Scholars trip—the first to explore two different fields in the same city.
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Carleton Top School for Peace Corps
15 February 2013For the second consecutive year, Peace Corps placed Carleton on its list of the top volunteer producing small colleges and universities. Carleton also placed many students into Green Corps and AmeriCorps.
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Kimberly Betz ’91 Named New Career Center Director
6 February 2013Kimberly Betz ’91, director of career development at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, has been named director of the career center at Carleton College. She will assume her new, full-time duties on March 4. Betz has 17 years of experience in higher education career development, including a stint at Carleton from 1996-2000 when she held roles as program coordinator, assistant, and associate director with Carleton’s Career Center. She went on to serve as director of internships at Oberlin College (Ohio) before assuming her current position at St. Catherine in 2005. In 2010, she was named administrative staff employee of the year at St. Kate’s.
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This year, the Career Center has promoted ‘Engagement Wanted’ as a networking tool to connect Carleton seniors and juniors with “Alumni, parents, and friends of the College who may have advice, referrals, or employment opportunities.”