Hale Center for Career Development/Four-Year Career Development Program
The career development program at Connecticut College offers a unique, comprehensive, and developmental curriculum designed to teach students to integrate their experiences and leverage their liberal arts education. The Career Action Program launches in their first year; students are encouraged to take a credit-bearing seven-week Career Preparation course built around the themes of Exploration, Professionalism, Storytelling, and Networking. This course helps students integrate an understanding of core career competencies, personal values, and how to articulate these; and provides concrete skills practice in professional communication, resume building, and interviewing. Through the Career Action Program, students who complete the Career Preparation Course continue on to participate in Advanced Career Engagements, intended to help them put into practice some of the tenets of the course. These involvements also allow students to begin to apply for flexible funding to support internships and other career-related and professional activities. Beyond the first year, dedicated Career Advisors and Hale Center staff work to support all students in their individual career development, helping them establish goals and explore their interests, providing internship and job search advising, and guiding them through the pre-professional (pre-health/medicine, pre-business, pre-law) and graduate school process.
Fact: 90% of the student body at Connecticut College regularly utilizes the services of the Hale Center for Career Development over the course their four years.