Interview 41: Emily Griffen on “How to evaluate and utilize the Career Center”
Mark interviews Emily Griffen, The Director of the Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning, at Amherst College (MA) : How can you evaluate and fully utilize a college’s career center.
Emily shares her backstory with all of its twists and then she addresses the following topics:“What services do college career centers provide?”Student Facing vs Employer facing components, Is there a demand in the job world for students who get degrees in things like history, English, philosophy, etc. Emily shares the top skills that employers are looking for, She shares how to evaluate the various career centers as part of your admission process? Can you trust the statistics career centers share about their graduates? What resources are there to help people know what their engagement should be with Career Services, Emily discusses the trends on college campuses with Career Centers (Length 1:05:44)