The Tufts Career Center can help you with all facets of career development:
▪ Career Coaching
▪ Job and Internship Listings
▪ Campus Recruiting
▪ Resume and Cover Letter Preparation ▪ Interviewing Tips
▪ Applying to Grad School
and much more!
From your first year to your last, and even after you graduate, we can help you in making career decisions, exploring careers, setting goals, and developing skills and strategies to realize these goals.
Attention Seniors! If you’re anything like me, you’ve already suffered from more than a few nervous breakdowns stemming from wondering what life will be like post-graduation. You might be worrying about living arrangements, maintaining a long distance relationship or keeping in touch with all of your friends. Above all, you’re probably quite nervous about jobs...specifically, crossing your fingers that you’ll actually find one.
I’m here to suggest that you consider an option that may not have crossed your mind before – working for the government. Are you groaning yet? Hear me out. There are a lot of misconceptions about federal jobs flying around out there. You may have heard that you'd be resigned to working in D.C., that they all entail soul-sucking desk work, or that they pay next-to-nothing. Not true!
I urge you to take a look at sites such as wherethejobsare.org and makingthedifference.org. They help to dispel a lot of the myths about federal employment with a variety of uplifting facts and figures. Consider the following:
the retirement of baby boomers means that the government needs to hire tens of thousands of new employees…and quickly!
paltry paychecks are a myth – in fact, government salaries are comparable to those in the private sector; you also have access to great benefits and job stability
the government may be able to help you pay back student loans – or even foot the bill for grad school!
85% of government jobs are located outside of D.C; there are also opportunities to work abroad
On top of that, these sites are full of exciting internship and job listings, such as the DIA Summer Intern Program with the Department of Defense, which offers hands-on experience in areas ranging from Foreign Area Studies to Toxicology to Intelligence Analysis. Boring? Not quite. Take a little time to peruse these sites. After doing some research, you may be surprised at how exciting a job with the federal government may be (not quite Men-In-Black caliber, but pretty close).
My Experience with the Internship Search, Part IIHappy Thanksgiving (almost!) We hope you enjoy your time off and come back feeling rested and rejuvenated!How about eating a nice piece of pumpkin pie with some Cool Whip while you read Part II of Cara's experience with inter…Read More
Learning to Dine with ConfidenceLet’s face it: we love to eat. We love it so much that when we engage in this scrumptious, feel-good hobby of ours, we rarely pause and think: how do I look right now? When it comes to food, we transform from poised, study-ha…Read More
My Experience with the Internship Search, Part IOh…the days when finalizing summer plans was as easy as sprawling green sleep-away camps and elaborate beach get-aways. As we near the pinnacle of our academic paths, many ambitious students choose to fill their time-offs wit…Read More
Meet Great Employers at the Tufts Internship FairInternship season is sneaking up on us again—as it always seems to do. Friends left and right are perusing jam-packed websites, weighing their options, figuring out which opportunities validate time-consuming apps. But while …Read More
