 Whether students arrive at Colby with clear career goals or not, whether or not they need a graduate degree to achieve their goals, the Career Center provides rich resources, offering information, guidance, and career counseling.
Of course, it offers the basics: help assembling a résumé or writing a cover letter, tips on job interviewing, videotaped mock interviews, and general career planning. But a lot more is available: placement in critical internships, help finding summer jobs and housing to make them possible, assistance finding and applying to graduate schools, access to an alumni network that can help with jobs or grad schools, special help pursuing fellowships and scholarships. The Career Center even offers financial assistance for unpaid internships that might be the stepping stone to a career.
With its friendly and supportive staff and atmosphere, the Career Center welcomes students whether they have a pretty good idea of what they want or are overwhelmed by the choices. The professional staff has the resources to take it from the top, starting with “what can I do with my major,” or plunging right into your area of interest and helping with specific internships, grad school applications, or contacts in the job market. Colby recognizes that internships are increasingly important to students, both for testing what they may want to do for a career and for gaining an edge when it comes to landing that first job. |
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 Of the members of the Class of 2004 who responded to a questionnaire six months after graduation, 76 percent were employed and 19 percent were attending a graduate program.
 Graduate programs chosen by Colby students
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