Our Career Commitment

Hone practical skills while exploring your interests as early as your first year on campus. 

Team-taught by faculty and members of the Center for Career Excellence team, the course equips you with the tools you’ll need for a strong start to your career exploration.

Learn how to:

• Craft a resume
• Find internships
• Prepare for an interview
• Write a professional email
• Network with alumni
• Connect your liberal arts education to career opportunities

It’s never too early to schedule one-on-one advising with one of our career coaches.

In fact, the earlier the better.

Whether you know exactly what you want to do or you’re still trying to figure it out, our career coaches can assist you and share resources that will help you connect the dots between the immense value of your liberal arts experiences and your future. They also partner closely with members of our alumni network to stay on top of industry trends and provide insight on the latest opportunities.

No two career paths are identical, and your career plan should be as unique as your St. Lawrence experience.

That’s why our coaches get to know your individual interests and make recommendations tailored to help you explore them. So unless your dream is to one day own a successful bakery specializing in whimsically-shaped biscuits, you won’t find a single cookie-cutter plan in your career preparedness roadmap.

Tap into insights from the nation's top-ranked alumni network. 

Laurentians are eager to give back however they can, which probably explains why our alumni network has been consistently ranked one of the top in the nation. Our LINC Mentoring Program helps you tap directly into our network’s expertise, connections, and experience. 

This program matches you with an alumni mentor based primarily on your career interests, though our Center for Career Excellence team also takes into account as many interest areas, identity attributes, and academic pursuits as you’d like to disclose during the matching process. 

LINC empowers you to identify career opportunities, refine your goals, build your networking skills, and grow your confidence as you explore. Your mentor is there to answer questions, offer advice and insight, and help you understand the power of your liberal arts education. 

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We believe experience is the best way to gain practical skills and turn an interest into a passion.

That's why you might consider pursuing an internship or conducting research on a topic that sparks your curiosity. 

Accessibility is a core component of our Career Commitment (so is alliteration, apparently). Should you choose to explore your interests through research or an unpaid or underpaid internship, we’ll help you through the process of securing funding to manage the costs.

Explore Opportunities

Take your academic passions to the next level. 

St. Lawrence’s Career Commitment isn’t just made by our Center for Career Excellence team—it requires collaboration from your biggest supporters across campus. So if graduate school is your goal, we’ll partner with your faculty mentors as you refine your academic focus, research programs, navigate the application process, and come to a decision about your next step.