Category: Careers

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.”

Thanks to a gift from Eric ’66 and Mimi ’66 Carlson P’97, Carleton College has announced the establishment of the Robert E. Will ’50 Endowed Internship Fund in Social Entrepreneurship. Administered by Carleton’s career center, the fund supports 8-10 domestic or international internships per year at up to $5,000 each for students pursuing social entrepreneurship. The fund honors Bob Will, the Raymond Plank Professor of Incentive Economics, Emeritus. A 1950 Carleton graduate, Will earned his PhD at Yale University and taught at Carleton from 1957-93. He championed the importance of a liberal arts education, and each year the Robert E. Will Economics Prize is awarded to the senior economics major or majors who demonstrate excellent academic achievement and breadth of intellectual interests in the best tradition of a liberal arts education. Professor Will remains a resident of Northfield and is very involved in community activities.

Carleton’s career center’s mentor externship program is prominently mentioned in an Aug. 11 article in Forbes, authored by Albion College (Mich.) president Donna Randall. She makes the case that a liberal arts education is excellent preparation for a variety of careers, and calls for liberal arts school to stay true to its mission. “We can and should commit ourselves more completely to providing students with education that encompasses both the timelessness of broad-based study in the arts and sciences, and the timeliness of practical preparation–leading to productive careers and satisfying lives.”

Carleton’s career center’s externship program is the focus of a feature in the March 4 edition of The Financial Times titled “Placements with a domestic twist.” The article focuses on 25th Reunion Trustee Paul Van Valkenburg’s ’82 and Barb (Behringer) Geiser’s ’83 role as volunteer hosts. The article is available at FT.com, although registrations (free) may be required. You can learn more about the externship program on the career center’s website.