The Career Development initiatives of the GPIA are intended to provide to you as many resources as possible during your time in the program. We offer workshops on such critical aspects of finding employment as writing your resume (or re-writing it if you're a career changer), preparing a provoking cover letter, and real-time interview skills. The program brings to you career panel discussions with professionals who are currently working in the field in many of the areas that you likely are interested in. In the past we've had representatives from organizations including:
- Doctors without Borders
- International Rescue Committee
- United Nations Fund for Population Activities
- Center for Transnational Justice
- International Crisis Group
- Independent Diplomat
- Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
- United Nations Development Program
Career Counseling Services
The Career Development and Placement office provides a full array of
individualized career services and personal attention to students and
alumni of its degree programs.
In
addition to individual advisement on career direction and preparation,
the Career Development office provides you with intensive experiential
workshops including
- A two-part, five-hour résumé development “boot camp” that helps you to identify and
articulate your marketable skills and “value proposition” that
differentiates you from competitors and helps you craft a targeted,
accomplishment-based marketing document
- A hands-on job search
correspondence workshop on how to write to prospective employers at
every stage of your search and choose and present your
references
- A Job Search Strategy Marathon Day that starts with
writing your ideal job profile and includes outside critiques of your oral
introductions and prepares you to develop a self-marketing plan, obtain
and practice advice interviews, build relationships that lead to
introductions and referrals for jobs and internships, practice answering
interview questions, and evaluate and negotiate job offers
- Videotaped and critiqued practice interviews
- A career change workshop addressing changing functions, industries, and/or sectors
- A
workshop on overcoming age discrimination in a job search both by
improving presentation and by targeting receptive segments of the
market
- Workshops on working a job fair and interviewing over a meal
Individual
advisement is designed to work with you to make informed, thoughtful
decisions about your career direction and job or internship choice. Career
Development staff will work with you to ensure you are considering all
sides of a decision and provide a sounding board for your questions,
all in confidence. Such a highly personalized level of service can
increase your confidence in the career decisions you make.
This level of preparation and
execution helps you to create more opportunities to choose from, as opposed to
using passive or less sophisticated job search methods, and enables you to
fulfill your professional goals of career advancement and professional
contribution to your field throughout your career.
Career Development and Placement Office
72 Fifth Avenue, 4th floor
Hours: 9:00–5:30 Monday through Friday
Additional hours for individual counseling are available (walk-ins welcome) on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m., Thursdays from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and at 8:00 a.m. by advance appointment only when school is
in session. Call for late summer/semester break hours. Selected career
workshops are held on Saturdays and Sundays.
Contact information:
Phone: 212.229.5400; 212.229.5400 x1518
Email: mgscdp@newschool.edu
