Category: Career Exploration

Justin Potts '25

How High-Impact Practices Build Better Scots

Five students explain how high-impact practices have changed their lives.

November 18 2024

Work Wisdom: Maggie Abeles ’17

Maggie Abeles '17 is an investor, operations specialist, and a chief digital officer, at Newbound.

November 6 2024

Dan rides a horse in Issyk Kul.

How Local Government and Language Create Community

A recent grad who lives and works in Kazakhstan shares his experience

February 14 2023

A view of a city street in New York.

Reflections on MacConnect 2022

Six economics students reflect on the experiences, inspirations, and connections they cultivated on this fall's MacConnect trip to New York City.

January 27 2023

Language and Liberty

In the diverse Twin Cities, Marouane El Bahraoui ’25 has found opportunities to utilize his passion, advance his career, and bring an international lens to the local Francophone movement

January 19 2023

Mac students leaving Hennepin County Government Center

On MacExplore trip, students get up-close look at legal careers

Over fall break, 15 Mac students got a taste of what it would be like to practice law in a MacExplore Law trip organized by Career Exploration.

December 8 2022

Summer internships

Macalester students work at internships all over the world.

August 8 2022

Interns to Employees: Part Two

Two students from the Class of 2022 share how they turned internships into full-time jobs.

April 7 2022

Eleven Months Later: James Bellitto ‘21

What's like after graduation? James Belitto shares.

March 16 2022

Eleven Months Later: Hannah Whipple ’21

What's life like after graduation? Hannah Whipple shares.

March 16 2022

Interns to employees

Two students from the Class of 2022 share how they turned internships into full-time jobs.

March 14 2022

Laura Rasmussen

Work Wisdom: Laura Rasmussen ’85

Rasmussen shares lessons she's learned as co-owner of yarn and needlepoint shop 3 Kittens Needle Arts.

January 25 2022

Hometown Organizer

Sami Banat ’24 is part of a St. Paul commission reenvisioning emergency response in the city.

January 3 2022

From Stage to Set

How improv at Mac inspired Hannah Rehak '15 and Nina Slesinger '14's creative pursuits.

November 17 2021

Photo of a group of students taking an outdoors class

Tips on how to find that first job after college

Mindy Deardurff, dean of Career Exploration, offers some advice and reassurance, plus a helpful reminder that one of the many perks of being a Macalester alum is a lifetime of career support.

May 6 2021

Students presenting their MacExplore project.

Virtual Explorations

Students used winter break to gain career skills and collaborate on solutions for healing border communities in crisis. 

February 11 2021

Career Exploration team featured in new book by New York Times columnist

The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber features a conversation with Career Exploration Dean Mindy Deardurff.

February 8 2021

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