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Joyce K. Salzberg Middle for Professional Development

The staff at the Joyce K. Salzberg Center for Professional Evolution is committed to enhancing students' professionalism and empowering students to nowadays themselves successfully as candidates for an internship, employment and mail-secondary instruction opportunities.

Students within the College of Liberal Arts accept completed internships with hundreds of employers in dozens of disciplines across the Philadelphia region, including recent placements with employers such as:

  • Philadelphia District Chaser's Role
  • Children'due south Hospital of Philadelphia
  • The Barnes Foundation
  • U.S. Agency of Labor of Statistics
  • Philadelphia Urban center Quango

What We Offer

  • Career Coaching -We offer individualized attention to each student on topics ranging from career assessments and résumés to interview skills and graduate schoolhouse preparation.
  • Required Course: Professional Evolution for Liberal Arts Majors -We teach all students how their liberal arts skill set translates to the marketplace in our required 1-credit class.
  • Internships -We assist our students in gaining valuable real-world experience with employers from the Philadelphia region and beyond.
  • Workshops and Events -Nosotros offer skill-based workshops and events that facilitate networking opportunities, career exploration, and post-graduation planning.

  • Virtual Resources - We have several virtual tools that we share with students to assist in resume creation, interview skills, and Handshake - a powerful tool that allows students to search and utilise for internship and job opportunities, come across career related events on campus, and and so much more than.

Internships

It's expected that all students within the College of Liberal Arts will complete at to the lowest degree one internship prior to graduation, and we'll assist every step of the way. From the first steps of edifice a resume, through to tips on how to impress in an interview, our staff is ready and willing to assist.

Pathways to Professions Stipend Program

Temple Academy's Higher of Liberal Arts (CLA) encourages all of its students to complete at to the lowest degree one internship earlier graduation as it volition facilitate career exploration and task marketability. Still, the bulk of nonprofit and regime internships are unpaid, which tin present challenges to those students pursuing this type of piece of work, just cannot beget to take fourth dimension off from their paid-jobs. This is why generous Temple CLA alumni have provided donations to offer a $2000.00 stipend to a select group of students completing unpaid internships for the summer.

  • Pathways to Professions, Joyce K. Salzberg Center for Professional person Development

Required Class: Professional Development for Liberal Arts Majors (CLA1002)

In our frequently changing economy, a liberal arts degree has never been more valuable. This one-credit seminar volition focus on the flexibility of a liberal arts caste and volition prepare students to pursue careers in diverse industries, including:

  • Regime

  • Non-profit

  • Corporate

  • Instruction

Upon successful completion of this course, students will accept developed skills necessary to:

  • Effectively search for career opportunities

  • Build an awarding-set resume

  • Fix for professional interviews

  • Manage the growth of their own professional person network

The mission of the Career Seminar is to guide students as they explore the value of their liberal arts degree, capitalize on current opportunities, and equip students with the tools to confidently marketplace themselves to potential employers.

Career Development

If yous're simply thinking about enrolling at Temple Academy, your career probably seems a long way off. But those four years will exist over before you know it, so it'll be fourth dimension to land a chore. Volition you exist ready?

What can I do with my major in CLA?

All CLA programs teach yous a cadre ready of disquisitional thinking, problem-solving and communication skills that prepare yous for a various range of careers, including jobs in nonprofit organizations, corporate businesses, and government agencies No matter what you study here, y'all'll exist ready to launch a career after graduating.

Handshake

Your task/internship search experience just got a whole lot better with Handshake! Hands find the all-time jobs and internships for you with Handshake'southward personalized experience.

  • 200+ Professional Development Events & Career Fairs

  • 200,000+ Employers Actively Recruiting

  • 14,000+ Task and Internship Postings

  • 100% of Fortune 500 Companies Recruit on Handshake