Alumni Career Exploration
Bowdoin Career Planning. It's Always Relevant.
Current students aren't the only ones who can benefit from our extensive career resources. At any given time in your life, you may desire a job change or even a change in profession. Last time we checked, the world wasn't slowing down. On the contrary, technology is drastically changing the way we work, and creating completely new categories of jobs and opportunities — making intelligent reflection, career planning and preparation more crucial than ever. Below, you'll find tools and information you need to assess your strengths, learn about different industries, and more.
Do What You Are
Available to alumni through Human eSources CollegeScope, this career planning tool provides information about your personal characteristics that help you reflect on and identify your values, your personal strengths and blind spots, how you negotiate in your daily life, and a host of other useful information. As a Bowdoin alumnus, you must first log into polarnet.bowdoin.edu to register and access this valuable resource. Once logged in, click on the BCAN/Career link.
CareerBeam
A self-paced program, CareerBeam helps users clarify your career goals, build a professional resume and cover letter, prepare for interviews, develop a network, and implement a strategic career search. Particular strengths of CareerBeam for alumni are its sections on strategic career searching, effective and systematic networking, and researching target companies, positions, and industries. It includes comprehensive company intelligence data, allowing you to create specific industry, company, and geography searches and target company lists.
To get started on CareerBeam, send an email requesting a user name and password to cpc@bowdoin.edu. Please include your phone number in the email so your account can be established. After receiving an email from CareerBeam including your new account information, you may login below.
Vault Guides
Through the Vault Guides, Bowdoin College offers alumni access to career information like career profile descriptions, industry and company research, focused industry guides, message boards and job search tips and tools. To access the Vault Guides in PDF format, log into Polarnet at polarnet.bowdoin.edu and then click on the BCAN/Career link.
Spotlight on Careers
Spotlight on Careers is a collaborative web site exchange that comprises a number of web sites among selective liberal arts colleges. It is a useful starting point for students and alumni considering a new field or industry to obtain an overview of the nature of job possibilities, responsibilities, and career paths within a particular field (e.g. psychology). Browse these sites for occupational information, sources of job listings, current issues within the field, and lists of organizations or firms that are potential employers. To access Spotlight on Careers, click here.