Career Center News

Jez Bigornia ’20 shares highlights from his Winter Break Externship experience.

I applied to be a theater management extern for The Acting Company (also known as the Group I Acting Company) so I’d have the opportunity to experience theater outside of academia in a professional setting — no better place to experience and learn than in New York City!

We are delighted to announce that RJ Holmes-Leopold joined Carleton as the next director of the Career Center on December 3, 2018. RJ comes to us from Cornell College, where he served as senior director of Alumni Engagement and Leadership Annual Giving.

Associate Engineer at Infosys, Aniebiet Abasi Akpan ’18

I’ve always been a huge fan of variety. Until I was a teenager I dreamed of being a Da Vinci style polymath with big successes as an artist, musician, cinematographer, engineer, astronaut, soccer player, scientist, and developer.

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Haley Grable ’20 spent her summer working at the Lakota Language Immersion Childcare at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Grable assisted in developing educational materials in Lakotan for the preschool children, helping to teach a new generation of fluent speakers.

How did Carls spend their summers? We chat with Syed Usama Amer, a senior Computer Science major from Lahore, Pakistan.

How did Carls spend their summers? We chat with Anna Karmel, a senior biology major from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

How did Carls spend their summers? We chat with Kait Libbey, a senior biology major from San Francisco.

On Friday, May 11, Lillie Schneyer ’18 and Gray Babbs ’18 released a document called “Being Not-Rich at Carleton.” The 24-page guide, which is broken into categories “Emergencies,” “Living,” “Health,” “Academics” and “Employment,” lists campus resources that can make Carleton more affordable.

Since this past January, students and faculty in a wide variety of academic departments and programs have been benefiting from the recently created Center for Global and Regional Studies (CGRS). According to its website, the CGRS aims “to promote programs and experiences that connect the education students receive on the Carleton campus with communities beyond campus—locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.” So far, it incorporates eighteen departments and programs, all of which include a focus on language or area studies. While some of these departments are also connected to the Language Center, others—such as American studies—are not.

The Career Center’s Scholars Program is an experiential learning opportunity for students to explore career options, make connections with alumni, and hone their networking and professional skills. Students from all majors are introduced to a specific industry area by incorporating skills acquired through the career readiness component (weekly assignments leading up to the site visits and a networking workshop led by Lee Caraher ’86) prior to attending an on-campus symposium, exploratory site visits to a variety of companies/organizations, and an alumni networking event during spring break. This year, students explored careers in public policy and sustainability.