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The mission of the Office of Career Services is to assist students and alumni in career exploration, to acquaint them with job search skills and appropriate resources necessary to reach their career goals, and to help students locate specific employment opportunities.
 
How You Can Help Colby Students
 
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Recruiting
If you can offer employment opportunities, contact our Recruiting Coordinator, by phone at 207-859-4140 or by email at career@colby.edu.  Click on the "Employers" link to the left to learn more about our various recruiting program opportunities.
 
 
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Internships
If you can offer a January or summer internship, please contact our office via phone at 207-859-4140 or e-mail at career@colby.edu and ask for the Internship Coordinator. 
 
 
How We Can Help Your Student
Career Services is here to help your student -- from looking for a summer job as a first year student to finding an internship to landing the right opportunity after graduation.  Our objectives are:
 
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Help students learn about career planning and the job search
Individual counseling appointments, mock interviews, small group meetings, and workshops make personalized learning available to every student who seeks it.  Our goal is always to help each student we work with move forward toward their goal, whatever that goal may be.
 
 
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Provide a wide variety of informational resource
Our resource library, web site, databases, and weekly email newsletter are all sources of information that students are encouraged to use in career exploration and job searching.  Our office is also a place where students and recent grads can go to make contact with helpful alumni.
 
 
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Provide support to students
In all of our programs and in counseling we attempt to empower students to do what they want most in the world of work.  To enable students to receive immediate attention to their career concerns as often as possible, drop-in hours and Friday afternoon internship information meetings are available without advance appointment.  Most of the year, students may only have to wait one or two days to get an individual appointment with a career counselor.
 
 
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Link students with employers
Our recruiting program, both on and off campus, and the graduate school fair we co-sponsor, are ways students may interact directly with employers and graduate school representatives with a minimum of effort.  We actively seek to help each student locate specific employment opportunities.
 
 
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Offer additional support services
Reference files are utilized heavily by students and recent graduates.  We also coordinate the collection of pre-medical reference files.  Pre-Med and Pre-Law advisors are Career Services staff members.  Information about graduate school exams and preparation courses is maintained in our office.
 
 
If you would like to discuss individual situations with one of our counselors, you may call Career Services at 207-859-4140 for an appointment on campus or by phone.