Career Development Office - Alumnae/i Services

Bryn Mawr College & Haverford College

Bryn Mawr College & Haverford College are committed to providing career development services to all alumnae/i . We offer career counseling; pre-professional advising; reviews of resumes, CVs, essays and cover letters; coaching for interviewing and job search strategies; networking events on campus and in several major cities; online job postings including our own password protected Network News specifically for alumnae/i; and a robust offering of other online resources to advance investigation of career options and job searches.

Appointments with counselors can be pre-arranged for on campus, phone or Skype by contacting the CDO at your alma mater.

We put an extremely high value on our networks and encourage you to engage in them. Our goal is to keep the networks vibrant and provide vehicles, or access to vehicles, for network communication. To that end, we encourage alumnae/i to take advantage of our services and to also inform us of career opportunities that we can share with other alumnae/i and/or students.

Please keep the College informed of your current employment, or graduate/professional study. The more current the information in the Colleges’ databases about what you are doing, the more powerful our network becomes.

Bryn Mawr alumnae/ i update your information at
http://www.brynmawr.edu/alumnae/

Haverford Alumni update your information at
http://news.haverford.edu/forms/view.php?id=15

Below is a collection of Career Development resources including some powerful online career research and search tools we subscribe to for use by alumnae/I and students.

A Collection of Career Development Resources
for Bryn Mawr & Haverford Alumnae/i

The Online Bi-Co Alumnae/i Jobs Listing, Network News is the password-protected sources of listings published by the Career Development Office for all bi-college undergraduate and graduate alumnae/i. Its job postings reflect the interests and expertise of our alumnae/i, from recent grads to experienced professionals. Included are postings by or through Bi-Co alumnae/i and/or their employers, as well as other employers who have made an effort to specifically reach out to our alumnae/i populations.

  • Please provide your full name, alma mater and class year when requesting the username and password for this protected site by emailing cdo@brynmawr.edu or cdo@haverford.edu
  • To post opportunities in Network News for current seniors, recent grads and more experienced alumnae/i, send information to cdo@brynmawr.edu or or cdo@haverford.edu
Please include a job description, position requirements, application process and deadline, your full name, alma mater, class year and whether you would be willing to respond to questions from alumnae/i considering applying.

BMC, GSSWSR students and alumni have access to the password protected job board called the Network News.
For more information go to the GSSWSR home page, Career Development section.

Alumnae/i Online Databases

FOR BRYN MAWR ALUMNAE

  • Go to http://www.brynmawr.edu/alumnae/ Click on “Search the Online Directory” You can search the online directory and please also update your own contact information through this site!!

FOR HAVERFORD ALUMNI

JOIN LinkedIn –
Go to http://www.linkedin.com/
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 30 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. Then join your LinkedIn alumnae/i groups for even greater networking potential. The more Bi-Co Alumnae/i who join and use LinkedIn, the more powerful it becomes for all alumnae/i. A basic sampling of Bryn Mawr and/or Haverford LinkedIn groups are listed below. There are a growing number of more specialized or affinity groups forming in LinkedIn

  • Bryn Mawr College Alumnae
  • Haverford College Worldwide Alumni
  • Haverford & Bryn Mawr College Bi-Co Alumni
  • BMC GSSW&SR (Alumni with Clinical Interests)
  • BMC GSSW&SR (Res/Policy/Advoc/PgmP)

Career Counseling for Alumnae/i - is provided on an as available basis.
Contact your college's CDO to make an appointment or arrange for a resume review or other consultation.

For Bryn Mawr Alumnae -

  • New Grads: All Career Counseling Staff
  • GSSW: Kathy Marcolina, Career Counselor
  • GSAS: Cindy Howes, Career Counselor

For Haverford Alumni: All Career Counseling Staff

Bryn Mawr Career Volunteers in Key Cities

In the college’s effort to help alumnae make career connections within their communities, it offers volunteers in some major cities who can help with questions related to career relocation as well as facilitating connections among alumnae living in their cities. This group of Career Development Representatives is headed by Marcia Y. Cantarella, PhD, '68, mycantarella@gmail.com. Cities with volunteers include:

 

Posting Opportunities for Current Students

Post entry-level opportunities for current seniors,
send information to cdo@brynmawr.edu or cdo@haverford.edu
Post internships for current undergraduates,
send information to cdo@brynmawr.edu or cdo@haverford.edu

Valuable Online Resources

We encourage you to become familiar with the information available throughout our web page. Check out our Online Resources page where you will find numerous databases of internships, job postings, industry and employer information. To obtain the passwords for these tools from off campus you will need to request the ACCESS KEY by calling the CDO. While on this page you may also want to check out the links to the information we have collected under General Resources and Resources by Industry This is where we have collected a variety of information we think can be valuable to our students and alumnae/i investigating career options and opportunities.


Take a few minutes to view our online Workshops which include The Successful Interview, Writing Effective Resumes, Graduate School Orientation, and The Job Search in a Difficult Economy.