Meet the Peer Career Consultants
The Peer Career Consultant program is a new program in the Leavey School of Business focused on supporting professional development initiatives for undergraduates. The Peer Career Consultants’ mission is to prepare students for their future careers by providing guidance, resources, and personal experience to expand their knowledge of career options, to explore potential paths, and to help them gain the confidence necessary to succeed in each step of the career building process.
The program was highlighted at a panel presentation during Parents’ Weekend in which four of the current Peer Career Consultants spoke about their goals for rolling out the program in its first year and answered questions from parents and students about their own career stories and internship searches.
This panel was the first of a few upcoming events for the Peer Career Consultants program. In Spring Quarter, the program will recruit juniors who are interested in being a Peer Career Consultant for the 20-21 academic year. If interested in learning more about the program, please email klydon@scu.edu. Applications for next year will open Week 2 of Spring Quarter.
The Peer Career Consultants will offer events in Spring, including an internship panel in which students are encouraged to come listen and ask questions about the internship search process and about the variety of career options available to them. Peer Consultants will be hosting office hours and a coffee break session in Lucas Hall for students to come and ask questions about anything related to professional development and their career or internship search process.
The Peer Career Consultants team is composed of seven seniors who come from a variety of majors (including finance, accounting, and marketing) and are pursuing a number of different career paths, such as investment banking, consulting, corporate finance, accounting, wealth management, product management, and sales, allowing them to provide insight to the internship and recruiting process for many different industries and positions.