Category: Careers

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

Thanks to Carleton’s CCCE office and the Career Center, Cynthia Chang ’17 began to view a career in medicine differently.

Dexter Corlett ’17 describes his experience working in a family practice physician’s office in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Chloe Bash ’17 describes her experience working for the Portland City Attorney’s Office in Oregon.

Eleanor Dollear ’16 describes her experience working for a non-profit literacy organization in New York.

Julie Zhou ’17 describes her experience working at a literary agent office in New York

There’s no place like home, right? The Career Center’s Scholars Week program—built around “taste of industry” tours that introduce students to organizations for site visits, panel discussions, and networking—kept its Carleton connections close this year.

Don’t send out generic résumés — use targeted search instead, says Carleton career center director.

The Sunday, November 3 edition of the Star Tribune featured a front-page story on Carleton’s new “Pathways” program, which helps students prepare for life after Carleton by exploring how certain classes and majors could lead to potential careers, internships and off-campus study programs.

The Oct. 1 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) made a note of Carleton’s new “Pathways” program in its article entitled “Career Centers Stretch to Fill New Roles.” The Chronicle notes that Pathways was started as a result of discussions during the recently-completed strategic planning process, listing  as one of its priorities this goal: “Prepare students more robustly for fulfilling post-graduation lives and careers.” The Chronicle writes “Carleton believes in its approach to a liberal-arts education, says President Steven G. Poskanzer, its president. Still, he says, “we are not keeping faith with students and families if they graduate from Carleton and then spend the next three or four years floundering.” Pathways is an outcome of that planning to more intentionally shape the College’s advising program, has started a new Web site to provide information on popular career fields like health and wellness and arts and communication, and is doing more to tie academics and outside activities together.”