Career Resources & Networking
Recruiting Program
The Recruiting Program brings hiring organizations to campus to recruit ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø students. You can interview for entry-level jobs and summer internships and attend employer-hosted events. The Recruiting Program is managed through our online recruiting system called .
Some key benefits:
- Find jobs and internships specifically for ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø students
- Conveniently interview on campus (at BMC, HC, or Swat)
- Meet ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø alumnae/i and hiring representatives
- Log in to to familiarize yourself with where to find postings and recruiting events.
- Update your Handshake profile with your preferred career interests to receive targeted emails.
- Prepare your resume and cover letter. Schedule a mock interview before your first interview.
- Explore the Recruiting Program opportunities below.
- Interview Days
- Career Fairs
Tri-College Career Fair
Friday, January 31, 12pm-3pm
Swarthmore College
Tri-College Career Fair brings employers to meet with students across all majors and class years from ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø, Haverford, and Swarthmore. This fair includes organizations from a variety of industries. Through this career fair, students can circulate the fair and meet organizations hiring for summer internships and full-time opportunities. Learn more on !
Questions? Please contact Dana Gold at dhgold@brynmawr.edu.
Networking
Networking can be as simple as research, which builds a network or collection of relationships. It also builds from one contact to another (and another) and maintains relationships with them throughout your career.
- Our comprehensive Networking and LinkedIn Guide offers tips and best practices for communication, preparation, interviewing, and more.
- Our LinkedIn Profile Rubric enables beginning, intermediate, and advanced users to evaluate their performance in categories such as experience, recommendations, skills, and expertise.
- Identify a field or type of work that has captured your interest.
- Gather early-stage research on this field or type of work.
- Identify and start a list of people working in your areas of interest.
- Have a resume completed and reviewed before reaching out to contacts.
- Reach out to ask if you can talk with the contact to learn more about his/her work.
- When possible, meet in person at the contact's workplace.
- Always thank your contact for his/her time and advice within 24 hours by email.
- Nurture the relationship. Never burn bridges.
Virtual Career Resources
The following are brief videos to explain some of the online career resources our staff recommends. Please take a look and feel free to follow up with us during a scheduled or drop-in appointment.
These workshops have been conducted virtually to make the content safely available to all students. Please contact us at cpd@brynmawr.edu if you have any questions or want to make an appointment in .
Career Resources for Diverse Identities
In addition to investigating the resources below, please consider making an appointment with a career counselor in Handshake to discuss your interests and goals.
This list is designed to grow as our staff discovers more resources. If you have any questions about it, please contact Catherine Schreiner at cschreiner@brynmawr.edu.
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Disclaimer
Some resources listed here were adapted from the webpage of SUNY–Plattsburgh’s Career Development Center.
Information in these external links comes from a variety of sources. The Career & Civic Engagement Center provides these links as potential resources for career planning research, but does not endorse any of the organizations listed. Before you use any of the services, vendors, or products, or rely upon information/resources found on these websites, you must independently research the organizations and services/vendors/products, and use caution and common sense when using those resources and/or applying for any position through the internet. By using these links, you understand and agree that the Career & Civic Engagement Center does not author, edit or monitor the outside pages, and is not responsible for their content.
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Phone: 610-526-5174