Thoughtful Career Advice for Penn Students and Alumni, written by the staff of the University of Pennsylvania Career Services office and selected special guests.
Happy spring break everyone! We hope that you have a safe and relaxing week next week.
Career Services remains open 9am-5pm every day during the break. It’s the perfect time to come by or have a call with us. Check our website for daily walk-in hours or give us a call to schedule an appointment.
See you all in a week!
Wherever you’re headed this week, whether it’s to your home or a far away destination, we hope you have a safe and relaxing spring break!
Career Services remains open all during spring break, 9am to 5pm, Monday through Friday. (Extended library hours resume after break.) If you’re still on campus, it’s the perfect time to drop in for an appointment or, if you’re away, give us a call!
We look forward to seeing you! Happy break!
We hope everyone is successfully wrapping up finals and getting ready for a wonderful winter break. Here is the Career Services operating schedule for the break:
12/21-12/23 9am-5pm
12/24 9am-12noon
12/25-1/3 CLOSED
1/4-1/12 9am-5pm
1/13 Spring semester beings, extra library hour resumes.
Remember that we’re here even when you’re not, so when you’re not visiting friends and family or a galaxy far, far away, drop us a line or call for a phone appointment.
We hope you have a wonderful holiday season and a safe, restful break. We look forward to serving you in the new year!
Dear Penn Sophomores:
Yesterday Career Services sent an email to Penn sophomores to inform them of planned changes to the internship recruiting timeline for next year. We immediately received feedback from a substantial number of students who had been planning to study abroad during Fall 2015 who felt that they had not received enough time to adequately plan for such changes and who were not comfortable with the option of using videoconferencing to conduct their internship interviews from abroad. We apologize for not making the decision earlier in the year, but we felt it was important to gather statistics and data from the 2015 internship cycle to better inform our decision about the optimal timing for internship recruiting. We were not able to make a decision until right before Spring Break and so announced it as soon possible when classes resumed.
We have heard from a significant number of students with concerns about the proposed change, and at this point we have decided that the best course of action will be to postpone the implementation of fall internship recruiting until Fall 2016. For current sophomores, on-campus interviewing for non-technical internships will take place in Spring 2016. Current freshmen should expect that internship recruiting will take place in Fall 2016 which will give students more time to adequately plan.
Again, our goal in Career Services is to help each and every student to clarify and pursue their career interests and we hope that the revised timeline will work for all of our students. We urge rising juniors who are studying abroad next fall to meet with a career counselor this spring or summer to discuss any career concerns they may have and to plan in advance for their return to campus in Spring 2016.
Sincerely,
Career Services
Career Services will be closed from 12 noon on Wednesday, December 24th until 9am on Monday, January 5, 2015.
We hope you have a safe and relaxing winter break. We look forward to working with you again in the new year. Remember, we’ll be open a whole week before classes resume, so you’re free to give us a call or shoot us an e-mail over break to have a quick questioned answered or to set up an appointment for when you’re back on campus.
From everyone at Career Services, happy holidays!