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We need YOU to make Career Pathways successful. Alumni can reach out to Clare Tauriello at tauriello@msmary.edu to learn more.
Pathways to Success Alumni and Students Connect through New Career Initiative One hallmark of the Mount is the alumni network that numbers 17,000 strong. An exciting initiative this year is Career Pathways, which taps into that network to create new opportunities for the Mount’s current students. The program currently offers tracks in the fields of finance, STEM, and government.
In addition to placing students in contact with relevant alumni agents, Career Pathways provides services and events to ensure student success. Currently, special events include Accounting Evening in the fall, a STEM job fair in the spring, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Day in March—all of which have opportunities for networking and résumé reviews.
Career Pathways seeks to create clear, convenient networks between students and alumni who work in an industry of “The Career Pathways program really embodies the spirit of interest to the student. Students are put in contact with an the University,” said Pat Goles, C’64, President’s Council chair alumni agent who then connects the student to additional and Career Pathways committee co-chair. “You might leave the alumni who provide connections to jobs, internships, and Mount, but the Mount never leaves you. We have a responsibility other experiences. to keep paying it forward to future generations so that the blessing continues.” Clare Tauriello, director of the Career Center, heads the program. “We’re approaching career search and alumni relations in new, Next year, the Career Center hopes to introduce additional more specialized ways,” Tauriello explained. “The concentrated pathways. Though the specific programs will depend on student focus we are putting on familiar services allows for exciting new and alumni interest, Tauriello feels reasonably confident that opportunities and clearer connections to alumni working in these marketing and sales will be among them. specific fields.” Joe Dowd, C’92, Career Pathways committee co-chair, echoed Tauriello’s statements. “This program is an enhancement of what the Mount has always done well. I’m honored to play a role in its success and to create an opportunity that wasn’t available for me.”
Tauriello, pictured, spearheads Career Pathways alongside the President’s Council. FALL 2016 MOUNT MAGAZINE
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