Career Services

Allegheny provides a range of career-oriented services for students and alumni. This includes:

• Career Counseling
  • Help in choosing a major or a career direction
  • Assessment instruments: Myers-Briggs, Self-Directed Search
  • Learn options for applying your major to a career
  • Learn how to be sure you'll be employable when you graduate
• Career Resource Library with books, periodicals, company literature and more
• Career Road Shows in which you travel to a city and spend half a day with an alumnus
• Graduate School Search Software
• Group Workshops presented for campus organizations or residence halls
• Help in developing Resume and Cover-Letter Writing and Interviewing skills
• Internship Assistance, including an Internship Database and e-mail notification of internship opportunities.

In addition, these initiatives are designed especially for seniors as well as alumni:

• Consortium Job Fairs featuring up to 120 employers seeking college students
• Job Search Assistance, including e-mail notification of job openings and JobTrak, a national employment database targeted to Allegheny College
• On-Campus Recruiting, in which we bring employers to campus to interview seniors for full-time positions after graduation