Career Center Newsletter

First Destination Survey

Are you graduating this May? If so, Click here to fill out the First Destination Survey (FDS)! 100 survey participants will be selected to receive a gift card for Colorado Coffee! For your chance to win, simply share your post-graduation plans in the FDS survey.

This survey allows Colorado College to make decisions on how to best support its students by capturing information regarding where CC graduates (and graduates throughout the country) land in their careers within six months of graduation. We want to hear from you regardless of where you are in the process of finalizing your post-graduation plans.

If you have any questions, contact the Career Center at careercenter@coloradocollege.edu or at 719-389-6893.

Highlighted Events and Opportunities

Seasonal Field Projects Coordinator

Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC) is a leading statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to motivating and enabling people to become active stewards of Colorado’s natural resources. This job is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working outdoors, is ready to meet great people dedicated to taking care of Colorado, and is looking to build their professional network in the outdoor stewardship industry. This position works within the VOC program team and closely with other project staff positions to provide professional project management, logistical support, and volunteer leadership coordination on VOC volunteer projects both in the office and in the field.

Apply on Handshake.

Kinship Landing

Are you ready to be outrageous? Kinship Landing is hiring across all departments, no experience is required. Hang with us and meet the team! Oh, and did we mention there will be free coffee & cookies?

Apply externally.

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment Partnership Marketing & Media Sales Intern

The Partnership Marketing and Media Sales department is responsible for bringing in new sponsors and retaining current clients of the Kroenke Sports & Entertainment properties. This includes Ball Arena, Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Mammoth, and the Colorado Rapids. This program aims to teach students or recent grads how to activate and maintain successful partnerships with corporate sponsors.

Apply on Handshake.

Upcoming Events

Cover Letter Workshop

Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023; 12:30-1:30 p.m. MT
Location: Career Center Carriage House

Just getting started with writing application letters for jobs and summer opportunities? We’ve got you ‘covered’! Last minute applying for jobs? And it needs a cover letter?! No fear, the Writing Center and Career Center are teaming up to bring you a Cover Letter Workshop. Join us to learn more about the cover letter and its basic formatting. We will have built-in time for you to begin drafting your letter with feedback from us! We look forward to seeing you!

Pre-Internship Workshop: Ending your Summer Skillfully

Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023; 4-5 p.m. MT
Location: Tim Fuller Event Space, Tutt Library (2nd Floor)

With the right tools, strategies, and practices, you can leverage any internship or work experience to build your professional identity, enhance your employability and accelerate your career trajectory. This 60-minute workshop will help you get the most out of your summer experience by understanding:

Important To-Do’s for your final days
How to get a great recommendation
How to leave a lasting positive impression
How to tell your internship story effectively

Positions

Homeward Pikes Peak Fellowship (PIFP 2023)

You still have an opportunity to be a Public Interest Fellow this summer. Check out this opportunity to work with Homeward Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs.
HPP is leading the community in housing and treatment of individuals with addiction and mental health issues. Using a nonjudgmental, compassionate approach that treats every client with dignity and respect. This position will contribute to these outcomes by helping us to better use our data to make decisions that improve service to clients, make good financial decisions, and raise more funding for services. We are looking for someone interested in homelessness issues, who is ready to use our data and analytics to create narratives and data stories to move the organization forward.

Apply on Handshake.

Springboard Program at Grinnell College Technology Specialist and Service Relationship Manager

This program provides a fantastic way to gain practical technology experience, professional certification, and experience different professional information technology career paths.

Technology Specialists and Service Relationship Managers are employed under a term appointment of up to three years, with expertise increasing each year. In addition to performing a technical specialist role in their team, these full-time employees provide an important relationship management role among ITS and departments (both academic and administrative) across campus. In that role, they advocate for those they represent in ITS decision-making and assist with ticket resolution as well as disseminate important technology service and change information to constituents. As technical triage specialists, these employees ensure that support tickets are routed to the appropriate colleague(s) on their technical team and help keep ticket submitters informed of progress.

Don’t forget: Visit Us During Drop-ins Monday-Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m.

Visit our drop-in hours Monday-Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m.

The Career Center can connect your academia to your professional goals. Don’t forget that you can schedule an in-person or virtual appointment through Handshake to discuss major exploration, review your application materials, or practice mock interviewing.

The Career Center is happy to support you:

Discuss the application process
Prepare for mock interviews
Follow up with an employer
Apply for funding opportunities and more!

Full-Time Jobs, Internships, and Other Opportunities

AmeriCorps Summer Teaching Fellowship (Apply by May 15)
Dynatrace Product Specialist Intern
Ent Credit Union Marketing Intern
Columbine Corporation Wellsite Geologist
Sanborn Western Camps Adventure Camp Counselor
Griffis Residential Leadership Development Program
The U.S. Department of State Information Management Specialist
Northwestern Mutual Financial Representative Intern
Information Management Specialist
Special Olympics Colorado Special Events Intern

Student Success Stories

Have you secured an internship or job this summer, been accepted into a post-graduate program, or been rewarded for an academic or research achievement? The Career Center would love to celebrate you and your achievements! Fill out the Student Success Story form in our bio to be featured next on our Instagram! @cc_careercenter

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