The Center for Career and Professional Advising (CCPA) empowers students and alumni to learn about and prepare for meaningful work, as they translate their Haverford liberal arts education into a rewarding life. In short, we are here to help students explore, identify, and realize their career and professional goals.
As your semester has geared up with mid-terms, class projects, papers, exams, practices, and club events, you might have put your career search to the side. Here are some tips on how to energize your career, job or internship search over fall break.
Starting tomorrow 10/12, we have FOUR upcoming events that will help students find, secure, and fund their summer internships!
Hear from Elom Tettey-Tamaklo as he reflects on his summer internship at The Carter Center!
You can do it- only one more week until Fall Break! The CCPA has a lot of virtual events this week, so join in while you take a break from studying for midterms!
Did you miss the chance to hear Rainey Tisdale speak at our last Fords on Friday? Here are some tips she shared with students (also a bonus TEDTalk)!
Next week , the CCPA will be welcoming Teach for America recruiters to campus to give an information session on their organization. Read about Malin Ehrsam, a recent HC grad who has recently joined the TFA team!
Happy Big Tech Week! We are so excited to share all the wonderful events the CCPA is hosting this week with Amazon, Google, and Facebook (in addition to all our non-tech events)! Take a look at what we have going on!
Most weeks we share five tips from our last Fords on Friday speaker, but this week, we want to share 22 tips from big names in the tech industry to get you ready for TRI-CO BIG TECH WEEK! Tech giants Amazon, Google, and Facebook will be on campus starting today until Friday for networking and recruiting events. What advice will you take from this article?
Learn about Claire Burdick’s summer conducting animal behavior research with the Saint Louis Zoo!
Can you believe it is already the last week of September? Make sure you take a look at the CPPA’s events and find one or two to attend this week!
The possibilities Arya found in his own life help him show his inner-city students how to aim high.
Cho works in the media & entertainment business in a dual position.
Schwarz works on creating enterprise level safety, compliance, and training software for research institutions, including pharmaceutical companies, biotech organizations, and universities.
Horn stumbled into the museum field through a summer internship that eventually led to a post-graduation editorial assistant position.
The English major works as a senior editor at Beacon Press, a publisher based in Boston.
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Walk-in 15 minute meetings
M-F 2:30–4:30 p.m.
We are here to help students explore, identify, and realize their career and professional goals.
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Stokes Hall, Third Floor
Hours: 9:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
Walk-ins M-F, 2:30—4:30 p.m.
(610) 896-1181
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