Career Center News

Simon Foster and Nikki Sorum know talent when they see it. Having served as corporate executives for much of their professional careers, they’ve scoured the globe to connect exceptional employees to a variety of top-flight firms.

Whether you have a few hours to share or are seeking longer-term engagement, Carleton welcomes your time and expertise! Here are a few ways to get involved.

What do basketball and square dancing have in common? For Pete Bakker-Arkema ’17, both helped define his Carleton experience.

The Career Center’s Scholars Program consists of exploratory industry tours aimed at introducing students to a variety of organizations within a particular field of interest. The program also includes an on-campus symposium, site visits, panel discussions, a networking workshop and reception, and related mandatory curricular components to facilitate students’ learning and career development.  

The Bay Area Careers in Tech Program exposed 15 sophomores and juniors in all majors to careers in tech. Students traveled to California over spring break to visit Evernote, Google, Facebook, Vevo, and Cloudera, and to connect with alumni working in tech at these and other organizations.

Get to know Tawa Alabi ’16 and hear about her experience working as a clinical research assistant.

-How did Carleton prepare you for your current experience?
I owe everything to my experience at Carleton. Some of my coworkers are Carls and they have already established a reputation here. In addition, my boss is a Carl Parent. On a serious note though, my job requires some statistical knowledge and excel skills which I honed during hours of analysis for my various chemistry lab reports. I also handle blood and marrow samples obtained from our participants and lab skills gained during my research fellowships while at Carleton aided in building my confidence regarding these processes. My comps exercise helped as well because now I can read papers related to cancer without feeling intimated regardless of how nebulous it felt at the beginning. I even use things that I learned when I worked at the printing services and the admissions office at Carleton! 

Rosa recently attended a comps presentation gala for computer science seniors and a Google information session held by an alum.

Carleton students share summer internship reflections during this past fall’s poster session.

Carleton’s recent “Entrepreneurs’ Summit” combines alumni mentoring, student competition.

Get to know Emily Balczewski and and hear about her experience doing systems biology at Mayo Clinic.

Well into her career, Stephanie Watowich ’83 has made a point to help fellow Carls gain real research experience—including Malavika Suresh ’18.