Get Involved at Lewis & Clark 

The Center for Career & Community Engagement coordinates and sponsors a variety of opportunites for alumni to meet with current students to provide career perspectives. These include offering internships to students, hosting site visits, discussing career fields, or participating in informational interviewing.

Internships

Does your organization offer internships? We are looking to connect outstanding Lewis & Clark students with opportunities to integrate their academic studies with experience outside the classroom.

Host Program

Are you willing to host one or two students at your place of work for a half or full day to give them a realistic picture of what your job is like? The Center for Career & Community Engagement has created the Alumni Host Program which matches alumni with Lewis & Clark students, according to career interest. This program is designed for students to gather career information; they will not be asking you for a job.

Site Visits

Small groups of students spend one to two hours in educational and interactive sessions with Lewis & Clark alumni at their place of employment.

Be Our Guest

Come back to campus and meet with interested students informally over lunch or sit on a panel made up of others in your field or major. You can discuss your career, how you got your foot in the door, classes and other skills that were valuable, graduate school, and anything else you think might be helpful. A few of our most popular events include:

• Careers for Pioneers - A joint networking event and mock-interview session where students can connect with Lewis & Clark alumni members and ask questions regarding career field and path. The second portion of the event is a one-on-one mock interview session where students can learn valuable skills about the interview process.

• Senior Survival Seminar - A 3-day seminar to help students begin to articulate the value of their liberal arts degree; learn how to craft a resume and cover letter for a particular job description; and learn interview skills in mock-interview sessions with community members and alumni.

• Hunger Banquet - Hunger has traditionally been framed in terms of starving children, abject homelessness, and desperate starvation. However, in today’s modern society hunger has manifested itself in a paradoxical form. Alumni and community members  lend their time and expertise as panel members at this event to help broaden the discussion of hunger and its long lasting effects.
• Spring into Action - Spring into Action is a new LC tradition conceived, developed, and administered by students in cooperation with Parent & Alumni Relations. Spring into Action is a day-long service day for all members of the LC community - students, faculty, staff, and alumni - and happens in April.

Alumni Volunteer Corps

More information on this opportunity coming soon. Please check back!

L&C Network

Everyday we speak with alumni who want to assist current students and recent alumni connect with career resources and information.  To make that easier we have created a LinkedIn  group – Lewis & Clark College Career Network (L&C Net).

Joining L&C Net is a great way to connect to students and share your career knowledge and expertise. Join today!

If your interest in using L&C Net is to network with other alumni members, please see our informational interviewing handout for additional networking resources and tips

 

Get started today! Contact 3CE!
Phone: (503) 768-7114
Email: careers@lclark.edu or service@lclark.edu

 

Do you need assistance in your own job search? Please see our Career Counseling page.