About 92 percent of all first-year Scripps students attended a personal orientation the first three weeks of this fall semester so that they could learn of jobs and internships, according to the campus Career Planning & Resources center.
“I learned how to find and apply for on- and off-campus jobs and internships,” first-year student Samantha Decker says.
She now gets regular updates from the center.
“I’m pretty set on being a neuroscience major,” Samantha says, “so I now get emails from them whenever they learn about an opportunity I may be interested in.”
The first-year appointments, which began in 2004, are opportunities “to say hello, to answer any questions, and to lay a foundation for a good relationship,” said Gretchen Maldonado, the center’s associate director and career counselor.
Scripps is one of a handful of higher education institutions to offer such highly individualized career guidance, and Scripps students are already seeing the benefits.
The Career Planning & Resources center promotes the strategic management of career development by working with students as they envision, formulate, and move toward their career goals.
Rebecca Dutta, also a first-year student, knows the center offers unique services.
“I realized that there was no other school that offered a Career Planning & Resources center that was quite as prominent and available to students as our center at Scripps,” Dutta says.
Includes excerpts from the Scripps Voice.