Category: Career Center News

Isabel Hackett ’21, reflects on her back to back experiences in Africa: doing a summer internship in Cape Town with Global Edge followed by studying abroad in Morocco in the fall.

As hands-on experience has become increasingly essential to prospective employers, a number of generous Carls have stepped up to fund internships.

A cherished Carleton tradition, Honors Convocation draws the campus community together to celebrate the academic accomplishments of Carleton students and faculty.

Carleton’s new Career Center director, RJ Holmes-Leopold, wants to connect every student to life-changing opportunities—and a lifelong network of Carls.

By endowing an internship named in memory of a fellow Carl, Tom Rock ’84 and Melissa Raphan stay true to their philanthropic beliefs.

Spring break doesn’t have to be devoid of learning. Thirty-five Carls spent a part of this year’s break to learn about leadership and professional pathways through the Career Center. The Gettysburg Leadership Seminar, led by Jeff Appelquist ’80, shared lessons from the battle of Gettysburg to inspire students to consider their own leadership styles. The Law Scholars and Biomedical Scholars programs, through the support of several alumni including Don Frost ’83 and Scott Kaufmann ’75, provided an insider’s view into the legal profession and scientific research in the Twin Cities and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

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.