Visit the Carleton Career Center to get your job search started. The staff are friendly, knowledgeable, and more up-to-date than any website can be.

To give you a broad sense of what’s possible, here’s a sample of employers that Carleton SOAN majors have worked for since 2000.

And a list of fields you might consider:

  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Advocacy
  • Agricultural Development 
  • Anthropology
  • Archeology
  • Archives
  • Business – Product Design
  • Business – Research and Development
  • Colleges and Universities 
  • Community Development 
  • Consulting
  • Correctional Institutions
  • Cultural Resource Management 
  • Epidemiology
  • Education and Training
  • Ethnic, community or area studies
  • Environment 
  • Foreign aid
  • Government agencies (Federal, state or local)
  • Health and Medicine
  • Historical Preservation
  • Human Factors Engineering 
  • Human Resources
  • Insurance
  • Land management
  • Law Enforcement – Forensics 
  • Law (legal practice)
  • Linguistics
  • Management
  • Museums 
  • Non-profits
  • Parks
  • Peace Corps
  • Public Opinion Research
  • Research Institutes
  • Residential Care Facilities
  • Retirement Communities
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Social Services
  • Sociology
  • United Nations 
  • U.S. Dept of the Interior
  • World Health Organization