Career Center News

Roy Martin ’10 describes his Initiative for Service scholarship in Peru as “one of the most transformative experiences of my life.”

Barb Behringer Geiser ’83 describes the mentoring externship in which she hosted two Carleton students for two weeks, and in which the pros well outweighed the con.

Laurel Schmidt ’11 has spent most of the last 20 years dodging the “what do you want to do with your life?” question. Thanks to the Career Center, she doesn’t have to avoid it any more!

Battlefields become classrooms as Carleton history majors learn about leadership with a group of corporate executives at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. 

Economics professor Mike Hemesath on why there’s no such thing as a perfect job, and other lessons learned from 20 years of conversations with job-seeking students and alumni.

Economics professor Mike Hemesath on why there’s no such thing as a perfect job, and other lessons learned from 20 years of conversations with job-seeking students and alumni.

Learn how the Carleton Scholars Program takes students into “the real world” to learn about career fields that interest them—and how you can get involved.

Patricia Wrede ’74 explains why spending an afternoon at Carleton advising students is both rewarding and a lot of fun.

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by William North, Associate Professor of History

While preparing to teach a course on the history of medieval banking, corporations, and accounting, I had an epiphany: accounting was actually a liberal art. This came as a shock to me. Accounting was what they taught in commerce schools and business programs; it was occupational; it was practical; it was technical rather than conceptual.