Minnesota Public Radio Highlights Career Center’s Engagement Wanted Program
Minnesota Public Radio ran a feature on May 25 about Carleton’s career center’s “Engagement Wanted” program, which sends out student profiles to interested alumni, helping students network and build relationships in their job-searching process. The piece speaks with Nate Ryan ’10 and career center director Richard Berman about the unique process. “You’re trying to sell yourself in a very limited number of words with what you’re interested in, where you’re hoping to be, some of your experiences and also trying to make it personal at the same time,” Ryan said. The college has always relied on alumni to help students find work, but Berman says they cast aside the notion that students must take the first step in networking. “We flipped it upside down so we have alumni contacting our students, just breaking the ice, and then shifting the responsibility to the student,” Berman said.
Minnesota Public Radio ran a feature on May 25 about Carleton’s career center’s “Engagement Wanted” program, which sends out student profiles to interested alumni, helping students network and build relationships in their job-searching process. The piece speaks with Nate Ryan ’10 and career center director Richard Berman about the unique process. “You’re trying to sell yourself in a very limited number of words with what you’re interested in, where you’re hoping to be, some of your experiences and also trying to make it personal at the same time,” Ryan said. The college has always relied on alumni to help students find work, but Berman says they cast aside the notion that students must take the first step in networking. “We flipped it upside down so we have alumni contacting our students, just breaking the ice, and then shifting the responsibility to the student,” Berman said.