February DC Trip
Every year, Fletcher takes a trip to Washington, DC as an opportunity for career exploration and information-gathering about specific organizations,
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Washington DC Career Trip
The annual Washington, DC career trip took place recently, back in-person as it’s meant to be. Organized by the Office of Career Services, the DC trip has always been a big deal at Fletcher, so much so that classes are cancelled for three days to allow students to take advantage of the opportunity.
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The annual Washington, DC career “trip” took place late last week, and it was a busy affair as always. “Trip” more in spirit than in practice this year, for obvious reasons, but in spite of being screen-mediated this time around it still felt familiar, with all classes cancelled for two days to allow over 300 students to take part in many dozens of discrete events.
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Washington, DC Career Trip
There’s currently a vacation-week feel to Fletcher, with empty classrooms and strangely quiet hallways. An extension of Presidents’ Day to a week-long holiday, perhaps? Good guess, but wrong. The lull is due to the annual Washington, DC career trip administered by the Office of Career Services (OCS). OCS has something going on at pretty much all times throughout the year, but even by their busy standards it’s fair to say that the DC Career Trip is their equivalent of the Super Bowl.
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New York City Career Trip
A large segment of Fletcher has temporarily relocated to New York City for a few days for the annual NY Career Trip, organized by the Office of Career Services (OCS). As usual, there’s a full agenda with lots to choose from, including site visits, panels, and an alumni networking event and reception.
Read MoreCareer planning and the Master of International Business (MIB) program
Longtime readers will know Lucas from past blog contributions. Over the past few years, Lucas has become our primary in-house application process and information systems expert (and we continue to turn to him to teach us things we may have forgotten, whether he likes it or not). He’s also taken on a new role working with our international business degree program. Lucas will drop in on the blog periodically to highlight the various goings-on within the program, as well as with the Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC), the Fletcher research center that houses it.
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I continue to welcome blog topic suggestions via the two-question survey, and even as I do, I’m working on writing
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This week’s posts have come from a professor, a current student, and a member of the Class of 2008. Today
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Well, we finished off yesterday’s Open House in fine style, waving off a few of the last visitors (and their
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Continuing the internship theme that Roxanne kicked off for us yesterday, today we’ll consider the question of internships during the
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