Planning Your Career

Investing in Your Success

You are destined to make a difference in people’s lives by leading communities and industries where change is needed most. Our student-centered approach to career preparation will help you get there. When you bring us your passions, interests, and enthusiasm, we'll meet you with incredible opportunities and a personalized plan to achieve your unique goals—that's our Career Commitment.

Your career journey can start on day one, and the earlier you connect with the Center for Career Excellence the better. We'll help you identify career opportunities that you’re passionate about, and build a flexible, customized roadmap with innovative programming that puts you on track to a rewarding career after St. Lawrence.

From individualized career coaching to career-specific courses, networking events, alumni mentorship programs and more, every Laurentian is ready to help you fill your four years with a balance of practical skill-building and experiential learning, internship, and research opportunities. After graduation, you’ll have a diverse range of skills and experiences you can speak to with confidence, clarity, and passion.

Design Your Career Roadmap

Maybe you know exactly what you want to pursue. Maybe you don’t. And maybe you’ll change your mind as you unearth new passions and interests. Wherever you are on your career exploration journey, the Center for Career Excellence team will help you build a custom career roadmap with a combination of these components. 

Individualized Career Coaching

Whether it’s your first day or your third year on campus, you’ll have access to one-on-one career coaching from a member of our Center for Career Excellence team. 

Career coaches are tapped into emerging trends and new opportunities thanks to the relationships with alumni and employers they’ve built over the course of their careers. No matter your passions, you’ll receive specialized mentorship and guidance from a career coach who knows you and your goals. 

Careers 101

Careers 101 a credit-bearing course that is team-taught by staff members from the Center for Career Excellence and a faculty member. You’re eligible to enroll as early as your first year on campus, but you can also choose to take it as a sophomore or junior. 

This course is designed to give you the practical career skills you’ll need while answering questions like: 

• How can I find internship opportunities? 
• How should I describe my role in campus clubs and organizations on my resume? 
• What should I include in an introductory email to a member of our alumni network? 

In Careers 101, you’ll take away tools you can put to use immediately. Perfect your resumes and cover letters, practice interviewing, and refine other professional communication skills so you’re ready to benefit from our top-ranked alumni network when it’s time to start connecting. 

You’ll also learn how to identify companies and organizations whose values align with your own, so you can set yourself up for a rewarding career and feel proud of the work you pursue. 

Major and Minor-Specific Programming

We believe your 21st-century liberal arts education is the key to tackling some of today’s most pressing issues. Our career programming is designed with this unique advantage in mind. 

While working closely with your faculty mentors, we’ll help you connect material and skills you learn in the classroom to internships and job opportunities.

The Center for Career Excellence’s partnership with academic departments is a critical part of your individualized career roadmap. Together, career coaches and faculty develop specialized career programming related to your majors and/or minors, help you build a network of supporters, and ensure you always have access to a web of personalized career resources based on your goals.

Internships & Research 

As you grow your professional network while connecting with alumni, narrow down your interests with your career coach, build your personal brand in Careers 101, and uncover academic passions with your faculty mentors, you’ll also begin to identify hands-on, experiential opportunities like internships and research. We’ll be there to help you apply for, interview for, and make the most of these experiences. 

Internship Fellowships

Interested in an unpaid or underpaid internship? We offer internship fellowships to help cover expenses and cost of living so you can focus on putting your best foot forward. 

Explore Internships

Research Fellowships 

Work one-on-one with your faculty mentor while digging into a topic that inspires you. We provide a variety of funding opportunities to enable your exploration and discovery in the lab, the field, the archives, and beyond. 

Learn About Research