Career Resources

 

I want to go to a Yale where we have the resources to achieve a sense of clarity, security, and hope about what comes next. We’re only at Yale for four years before we have to figure out how to make our way in the world, and one of the most important things Yale does is prepare us for, and help us find, fulfilling work and graduate school opportunities. In many ways, Yale’s career resources, especially for students going into consulting or finance, are thorough and robust. But there’s always more we can be doing, especially to equalize resources for students interested in public service careers.

Yale should:

  • Grow the Pre-Med advising staff so that Yale’s substantial Pre-Med community has the best possible access to information about academic requirements, extracurricular and summer opportunities, and medical school applications.

  • Hold an event on campus to guide students through navigating the Symplicity and USAJobs websites for public service employers.

  • Create a Public Service Ambassadors program, which would recruit students who worked in the public sector in past summers to promote public service on campus, by contacting their former employers to encourage them to come to campus for recruitment and informational events.

  • Enlist government agencies and nonprofits to come to Yale and recruit students, just as financial services and consulting firms do.

  • Establish a fund that provides grants for students with financial need to spend on LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, and GRE prep classes. These courses make a significant difference for students taking graduate school entrance exams, but they are incredibly expensive, often prohibitively so.

 

What YCC can do:

  • Prepare a comprehensive report, with clear recommendations, on career services at Yale. Are students satisfied with the offerings? What could be improved? Do resources and accessibility vary depending on the careers students are interested in?

  • Collaborate with the Association of Yale Alumni to host more career-focused alumni speaker events.

  • Increase funding to the Class Councils to support additional career-related programming and events, like resume-writing workshops and forums on summer internships and career choices.

Continue the “YCC Reality Checks” events, which were implemented this year and teach real-world skills we’ll use after Yale.