Career Insights
Talking Career Paths with the Barnard Community
Career Insights is an event series that happens throughout each semester, connecting students to graduates and friends of the College. Students can hear perspectives on careers, learn about the transferable skills gained in various areas of study, and practice networking and connecting with Barnard graduates (and with each other). The ambition is especially to feature topics and themes that often escape dominant narratives about careers, and highlight the diversity of graduates pursuing academic, corporate, nonprofit, artistic, and governmental trajectories. Students can read about (and register to attend) upcoming programs by logging into Handshake and exploring the Events section.
A playlist of many Career Insights events can be found on the Beyond Barnard YouTube Channel! A list of previous and forthcoming topics is included below.
Beyond Barnard welcomes recommendations for upcoming Career Insights Programs. Questions? Email beyondbarnard@barnard.edu.
- Career Insights in Sports
- Career Insights for Theatre Majors*
- Career Insights for Dance Majors*
- Career Insights in Education
- Career Insights in the Literary Arts*
- Career Insights for History Majors
*Denotes a co-sponsorship in the Spring 2025 Arts Focus Series
- Careers in Literature and Translation
- Careers in Music
- Career Insights: Quantitative Skills & Statistics
- Career Insights for Environmental Science Majors
- Career Insights for English Majors
Past programs include (many recordings available on the Beyond Barnard YouTube Channel!):
- Careers In Clinical Psychology
- Fellowship Insights
- Careers in Neuroscience, a three-part program featuring an introduction to transferrable skills, presentation by the Society for Neuroscience, and alum panel
- Careers in Climate Activism
- Careers in the Physical Sciences & Chemistry
- Careers in Film & Television
- Careers in Non-Profits
- Pathways in Theatre (pictured)
- Careers in Language Teaching
- Careers in Neuroscience (a three-part series!)
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Librarians, Archivists, Taxonomists, & Museum Careers
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History Major Career Pathways
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Creative Writing
- Studying or Working Internationally
- Gender in Healthcare
- Careers in Entertainment
- Media Production
- Careers in Research
- Careers for Architecture Majors
- Careers in the Life Sciences
- Sustainability
- Accessibility & Advocacy
- Pharmaceuticals & the Future of Biotech
- Health Professions
- Government and Public Policy
- Marketing and Communications
- Public Interest Law
- The Performing Arts
- Fashion & Beauty
- The Entertainment Industry
- Museums and Arts Foundations
- Career Insights at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The First Generation Job Search
- Higher Education Administration
- Advocacy & Social Justice Work
- Non-Teaching Roles in Education (in partnership with the Education Program)
- Computing and Data Science
- Financial Services (part of Spring 2021 Finance Focus)
- Visible and Invisible Disabilities on the Job Market & in the Workplace
- Careers in Art Museums (at the Whitney Museum of American Art)
- Recent Major-Based Career Insights events: Psychology, Physical Sciences, Biology, Cognitive Science, Environmental Science, History (2x), Urban Studies, Chemistry, Language Programs, English (2x), Neuroscience & Behavior (3x); Women's, Gender, & Sexuality, Anthropology