A Year by Year Plan for Career Success
As your partner in helping plan for success, we offer many services to help work with you and your student throughout their college career.
Families.
As your partner in helping plan for success, we offer many services to help work with you and your student throughout their college career.
Beyond helping your student with his or her individual career decisions, we also welcome your input and assistance for other Drew students. If you are able to offer students internship or job opportunities, get in touch with Greg Townsend
Job Shadowing for Pre-Med/Pre-Health Students
Drew provides support and advice for students exploring and planning to pursue careers within a variety of the health professions. Along with completing coursework students are expected to participate in relevant exploratory activities such as shadowing. Shadowing gives students a very tangible sense of what sense of what it’s like working with patients, working with other health care practitioners, and what the challenges and rewards are of working in a health or medical profession. If you are interested in having a Drew student participate in a shadowing experience at your organization please reach out to Dunstanette Macauley-Dukuly.
We hear from families like yours every day, and are happy to help with any questions, concerns or problems you and your students face. See some of the most common concerns here.
Engaging in one or more internships is an ideal way for your student to sample career options, gain valuable experience develop professional skills and establish important networking relationships. In addition, many employers look to their interns when making full-time hiring decisions.
Students on the graduate school track are also expected to have engaged in experiential education beyond the classroom. Internship supervisors are excellent sources for letters of recommendation either for employment or graduate school.
We are committed to helping your student develop the skills necessary to conduct an effective job search, and we provide guidance each step of the way, even after graduation. Our goal is to have students who are well prepared for the future career transitions they will likely face.
Beyond helping your individual student, we develop strong ties with employers and alumni in order to connect Drew students with the best possible opportunities. We offer a number of career fairs and networking events, as well as coordinate on-campus interviews in order to facilitate the job-search process.
In addition to industry-specific skills and experience, there are a number of “transferable skills” that employers consistently cite as highly important in the search for new hires:
Drew students can develop many of these in a variety of ways, in and out of the classroom. Encourage your student to get involved through activities, on-campus employment, community service, internships and research work.
Our strong Academic Internship Program insures that students have access to hundreds of opportunities close to campus and across the country.