Jessica Rothman describes Hunter human biology career advising for study abroad
Rothman says she directs Hunter's human biology program and has a CUNY Inclusive Economy career advisor. The advisor helps students find internships, and after study abroad meets with them to translate their experience into resumes and career plans.
Can I add?
In addition to being a professor in anthropology, I'm also the director of the human biology program at Hunter.
And this has over 2,000 students currently, undergraduate students.
And we've been very lucky to have the CUNY Inclusive Economy to a dedicated career advisor within our program.
And what the advisor does is she reviews the student, you know, reviews whatever kinds of interests the student has and tries to connect students with internships and jobs within the city.
But also when the students come back from study abroad, she meets with them.
Our other advisor meets with them.
We all, you know, I meet with them sometimes depending on the student.
And we sit down and we say, how, you know, how is your experience?
What, you know, what did you do out there?
And the student has loads and loads to say.
And then we try to use the information that the student gave us to, you know, to make suggestions for them and to help craft their resume, to put it on their resume, to identify the skills they learned while they were abroad.
We also take, we also put study abroad.
opportunities specific that our human biology students might be interested in on our website.
And they also do get something when they enroll in the major, they get a little, you know, they get just information about what study abroad programs can actually contribute to their degree program, as well as, you know, just being a study abroad program, but also
they can gain credit for actually doing that program within their degree program.
So I think it's been really helpful for their, you know, in connecting them to future careers, whether it be in the city or just, you know, or outside in the future.