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The Career Planning Center is inviting alumni and parents
to participate in a new initiative designed to educate students
regarding nonprofit and government careers: The Nonprofit
Shadowing Program.
Feedback provided by students and alumni to the Career Planning
Center indicates a desire for more services oriented around
professions that have not traditionally recruited on college
campuses: social services, law, healthcare, art, education,
government and public administration. To help fill this need,
the Career Planning Center is coordinating the 1st Annual
Nonprofit Shadowing Program, to take place during the week
of Jan. 6-10.
“Shadowing” is a term that is used nationally
by colleges and universities to describe a short-term observational
experience that teams a professional and an undergraduate
in an effort to enhance the student’s knowledge about
a particular career field. The Nonprofit Shadowing Program
will give Holy Cross students a unique opportunity to spend
a day observing a graduate or parent working in the nonprofit
sector. Through this experience students will begin to understand
the qualifications, skills and attributes needed to succeed
in that profession.
The Career Planning Center is actively seeking alumni and
parents willing to host a student for a day to share their
insights and expertise about their work in the nonprofit
sector. To participate in this exciting new program please
contact Kelly Kochis, assistant director, Career Planning
Center, at 508-793-3880, or via email at kkochis@holycross.edu
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