From museums and cultural institutions, to galleries, performing arts, and careers as practicing artists.
Focus Series
Helping students gain an understanding, not only of job descriptions and application processes, but how to cultivate a career at the intersection of success and lifelong well-being; and to get to the heart of industries that have attracted so many graduates in the past decade.
The Focus Series
Helping you navigate the differences between investment banking, wealth management, buy side, sell side, and everything in between.
What counts as a "tech" career today? Meet with firms and organizations large and small, and connect with alums who can help you understand the industry.
An industry with a reputation for providing broad-based training on the knowledge and skills necessary to understand business problems across industries.
Helping you navigate a legal, advocacy, and government career from your internships at coursework at Barnard and beyond.
Nonprofit Focus will help you build an awareness of the many different kinds of nonprofits, the roles available in organizations, and the career pathways that can help you pursue work in this space.
Thinking Beyond the Job Application
The Focus Series began as a means of helping to demystify the kinds of roles that comprise complex (and often confusing) industries. Today, it has become a multi-industry event and workshop series that provides semester-long insights into a range of fields that are popular with Barnard students, welcoming employers and alums to help provide expert on-the-ground guidance and perspective (while connecting students to specific opportunities). Crucially, the Focus Series allows for deep dives into the status of industries — and into questions that probe the intersections of well-being with lifelong career success.
Students are often generally aware of law school as a pathway to making change and being active in the legal profession. But they don't have visibility on the many different ways to practice as an attorney — let alone the number of different ways that they can pursue careers in policymaking, advocacy, and more that don't involve law school. The same goes for popular fields and destinations including the arts, finance, nonprofits, tech, and consulting. Concurrently, employers are enthusiastic to provide more than the typical/traditional information session. They're excited to bring to Barnard practitioners in their field to help students build skills and knowledge to make them better candidates.
The Focus Series represents some of Beyond Barnard's best collaborations with Corporate and Philanthropic Partners. It allows employers to connect with students they know are committed to their industry. And it expands and deepens recruiting conversations, helping students think about their motivation to pursue a particular field. Questions about the Focus Series? Ask beyondbarnard@barnard.edu.