Office of Career and Professional Development/Four-Year Career Development Program
The Career Development Program at Connecticut College offers a four-year comprehensive, sustainable and developmental curriculum designed to teach students to integrate their experiences and leverage their liberal arts education. Dedicated advisers connect with all first-year students through their First Year Seminar, guide them through early stage assessment, and introduce them to identifying transferrable skills gained through coursework and out of class engagements. Throughout their four years at Connecticut College, students are advised and given direction necessary as they begin to make choices about co-curricular involvements, internships, academic curricula and life after Connecticut College. Career Advisers guide students through the process of self-assessment, facilitate goal articulation and help establish learning objectives, provide internship and job search advising, and guide students through the pre-professional and graduate school process. The office empowers internal and external partners (alumni, internship sponsors, employers, graduate programs) to foster a holistic and reciprocal community supporting a lifetime of student growth and success.
90% of the student body at Connecticut College regularly utilizes the services of the Office of Career and Professional Development over the course their four years.