It is a well-known rite of spring for college seniors: looking for a job and comparing notes with classmates about the search or about offers they鈥檝e received. That ritual takes place at the Carroll School, but not necessarily on that familiar timeline.
Increasingly, Carroll School students are leaving their summer internships after junior year with a job offer in hand. Or they鈥檙e lining up jobs in the fall semester of senior year, at least partly on the strength of experience gained during one or more internships.
By the middle of the spring semester, approximately two-thirds of Carroll School seniors know where they鈥檒l be launching their careers. Last year, fully 87 percent had signed on with an employer by graduation. Most of the rest were looking ahead to other endeavors such as graduate school and volunteer opportunities; some were still negotiating or interviewing. Here's a look at five soon-to be-graduates.
Rebecca Hatcher
hometown:听new york city
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bound for:听ernst听&听young, boston
Hatcher had not one but two internships at EY, during the summers after her sophomore and junior years. The second internship took her all the way to Melbourne, Australia, as a participant in EY鈥檚 Global Exchange Program, which is designed to help interns gain a global perspective.
Like many seniors, Hatcher says she 鈥渞eally can鈥檛 imagine leaving so soon.鈥� She鈥檒l be leaving to work in one of EY鈥檚 advisory practices. But she adds, 鈥淚 think it鈥檒l be an easier transition having 40 of my classmates also go to EY with me. I鈥檒l be supported by the office managing partner who is a 51茶馆 alum, down to all of the service line heads who are also 51茶馆 alums, not to mention the interns. Being in this supportive 51茶馆 community is really important to me.鈥�
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Joshua Reed
hometown:听new egypt, new jersey
concentrations:听finance听&entrepreneurship听(international studies minor)
bound for:听hubspot鈥攃ambridge, massachusetts
Reed served as a Google intern at corporate headquarters in California during the summer after his junior year. With that distinction under his belt, and with a driving interest in the business side of tech, he received an offer in October from the online marketing firm HubSpot. There, he will work primarily in marketing鈥攁n interest he didn鈥檛 always have.
鈥淚鈥檓 the first one in my family to go to college, so I had no idea what I wanted to do at all,鈥� Reed says. 鈥淏usiness was not something I had really thought about. I just applied to the Carroll School on a whim. But thanks to TechTrek [courses that combine classroom work with field study in Silicon Valley and Ghana] and some other experiences like it, I started to pursue tech heavily. I鈥檓 excited to get into this field.鈥�
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Kelley Summers
hometown:听hinsdale, illinois
concentrations:听finance听&听marketing
(american studies minor)
bound for:听accenture, chicago
American Express offered Summers a job a few days before she finished her internship with the company, in the summer after junior year. But she had until November to accept the offer. Around that time, Summers arrived at a different choice: to take what she called her 鈥渄ream job鈥� as a management consultant with Accenture, one of the world鈥檚 largest consulting firms.
What鈥檚 it like to search for a job as a Carroll School student? Summers has a quick response. 鈥淭here鈥檚 an enormous amount of support that they give you here. Whether it鈥檚 letting you take some time off of class to go on an interview, or talking with a professor who has experience in the field, it鈥檚 great,鈥� she points out. 鈥淭he mentorship is part of the great support system here. And I just hope I can carry that into my career and do as much for others as everyone did for me here.鈥�
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Jose Alvarez
hometown:听los angeles
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bound for:听pricewaterhousecoopers, los angeles
Alvarez began building his relationship with PwC during his junior year, as recruiters from the firm came to campus for various events including company-sponsored dinners. That relationship only grew stronger during the following summer, when he interned at PwC and showed managers what he could do. By the end of his internship, he had landed an after-graduation role in auditing and assurance services.
Recalling one of those PwC events on the Heights, Alvarez says: 鈥淚 really liked the feel that these were all 51茶馆 alums. Cutting through all the vagueness, they gave me real-world examples, and I thought, 鈥極h, I can see myself being a public accountant.鈥欌��
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Ronald Ren听
hometown:听worcester, massachusetts
concentrations:听finance听&听marketing
(philosophy minor)
bound for:听bank of america commercial banking group鈥攈artford, connecticut
Like other Carroll School students, Ren speaks enthusiastically about 鈥渢he 51茶馆 network,鈥� especially alumni and, during his past years at the School, seniors who offered him guidance. 鈥淓veryone was extremely helpful and willing to teach me about whatever positions they knew about, whatever openings they had,鈥� he says. After interning at Work 鈥橬 Gear and Fidelity, Ren found his permanent opening as a credit analyst in a group informally called 鈥淏usiness Banking鈥� at Bank of America.
鈥淲hat that means is that I鈥檒l be giving them [business owners] money based on their credit and helping them grow. And what鈥檚 cool about it is that a lot of these companies don鈥檛 have accounts and financial statements,鈥� he says. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e more mom-and-pop shops that write down their revenue at the end of the night. You鈥檝e got to dig deeper, and a lot of it is relationship building.鈥�
Stefanie Tracey is Web Specialist at the Carroll School
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