The Honourable Ted Todd with Lara Phillips HC '04.

Components of Career Connections
There are four key components to each Career Connection explained below:
1. Exploring the career path
2. Taking course work related to the field
3. Participating in specific co-curricular activities
4. Gaining related work experience and internships

1. Exploration
Through the Career Connection, you have the opportunity to speak with a Career Connections advisor to begin exploring your possible career options. Advisors are available to offer real world advice and to answer questions about the career. You can also take advantage of the resources in the Career Center to start exploring your interests, strengths and possibilities. Assessment instruments such as SIGI PLUS, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and the Campbell’s Interest Skill Survey are available to help you narrow your focus to find what you are most interested in doing.

2. Academics
A broad-based education allows you to use specific course work to begin developing an intellectual basis for the field. A liberal arts education, regardless of major, will be helpful in preparing you for the career of your choice. You should work with your Career Connection's advisor, as well as your academic advisor, to arrange a schedule which optimizes your opportunities to build your education and to establish a strong foundation for the field you would like to enter.

3. Co-curricular Activities
There are numerous clubs, organizations and activities that already exist at Hanover that can be useful in building your experience base. There are also countless off-campus activities to help prepare you and to broaden your experiences. Participation in these can give you insight onto your own career interests and can enable you to develop related skills for employment.

4. Internships and Summer Jobs
Would you like to see what the job is really like? Internships give you a chance to explore specific career fields, to gain marketable skills in your career field and to apply the knowledge received in class to actual work situations.

Internships for Credit: Hanover offers the option to earn credit for internship experience. Requirements include a minimum of 160 hours on-site, development of a substantial reading list, and an analytical essay and presentation at the completion of the internship.

Current Career Connections
The following Career Connections are currently available to Hanover students. Additional programs will be added in upcoming years.

Actuarial Science (Advisor: Carl Jagels)    

 
Athletic Training (Advisor: Myra Stockdale)

Coaching  (Advisor: Mike Beitzel)

College Teaching  (Advisor: Barbara Garvey )

Community Organizing and Advocacy  (Advisor: Keith Roberts)

Computer Programming  (Advisor: Computer Science Faculty)

Counseling   (Advisor: Skip Dine-Young)

Design Your Own    (Advisor: Career Center Staff)

Early Childhood Development    (Advisor: Judy Roberts)

Environmental Science   (Advisor: Ken Bevis, Daryl Karns, Darrin Rubino, Pete Worcester)

Event Management   (Advisor: Katy Lowe-Schneider)

Foreign Service  (Advisor: Mi Yung Yoon)

Grant Writing

Information Technology  (Advisor: John Collins)

International Education   (Advisor: Uschi Appelt)

Journalism (Print & Broadcast)  (Advisor: Kay Stokes, Elizabeth Winters)

Law  (Advisor: Matt Vosmeier, William Kubik, Margaret Krantz)

Librarianship   (Advisor: Kelly Joyce)

Marketing  (Advisor:Chris Gage)

Medicine   (Advisor: Margaret Krantz, Walter Bruyninckx)

Ministry   (Advisor: Carter Aikin)

Museum Studies (Advisor: Sarah McNair Vosmeier)

Public Policy   (Advisor: Ron Smith)

Public Relations  (Advisor: Eric Freeman)

Sport Management   (Advisor: Molly Jones)

Theater & Film    (Advisor: Jim Stark, Paul Hildebrand, Rob Doenges)