Center for Career and Professional Development

Are you ready to lead with vision, drive success, and bring transformative ideas to life? The Career Center provides expert support and guidance to help you succeed in business, finance, and entrepreneurship. Gain insight through our workshops and programs, build hands-on experience and enhance your resume with internships, and be part of a strong community of peers who share your drive.

Are you passionate about making a difference through public service? Careers in law, government, consulting and public policy are crucial for protecting rights, upholding justice, serving constituents, innovating solutions, and shaping the future of our society. The Career Center offers outstanding resources — including workshops, internship support, and a pre-law program — to help you cultivate the skills and experiences you need to prosper in these fields.

Healthcare offers diverse pathways to make a difference through science, compassion, and innovation. If you’re considering a career in this vital field, you’ll find unrivaled support from the Career Center, including in-depth workshops, clinical and shadowing opportunities, medical school admission test preparation, early assurance programs, and more.

Pre-Dental

Do you want to make a difference in people’s lives by improving their oral hygiene and health? Be a part of F&M’s pre-dental program and set yourself up for a successful career in dentistry.
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Pre-Health 

Whether you’re considering a career as a physician assistant, physical therapist, pharmacist, optometrist, or other vital role in the field of medicine, you’ll find the support you need in F&M’s pre-health program.
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Pre-Medical

Begin your career in an essential, effective, and rewarding field. By participating in F&M’s pre-medical program, you’ll find all the guidance and support you need to build a sturdy foundation for a successful future in medicine.
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Pre-Veterinary

F&M’s pre-veterinary program has a legacy of preparing students for successful careers in veterinary medicine, empowering you to provide compassionate care to your animal patients while cultivating strong relationships with the animals’ owners.
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Shape minds, contribute to a vibrant society, and build a better future. Careers in the arts, education, and emerging field of social impact are vital for empowering learners, launching innovative solutions, fostering understanding, and strengthening communities. If you're drawn to making change through creativity, the Career Center offers tailored resources — including workshops and connections to real-world experiences — to help you thrive in these meaningful fields.

Innovate, build, and explore. Careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are fast-growing and ever-changing, offering exciting opportunities to advance technology, solve complex global challenges, design groundbreaking solutions, and shape the future of our world. If you’re driven to create the future through ingenuity, you’ll find expert support from the Career Center, including comprehensive workshops, access to hands-on research and internships, our engineering dual degree program, and networking with alumni who are leaders in their fields.

Each career community has a dedicated adviser with expertise in the field. Your adviser will help you explore your career options by talking through your strengths, interests, and goals; work with you to develop a customized goal-oriented plan; help you discover and land professional development experiences; perfect your application materials; and more.

The Career Center offers innovative and engaging programs on life skills such as personal finance, public speaking, leadership development and more, and hosts a variety of career-related events to introduce you to a breadth of post-graduate options. Our most popular events include: 

• “Authentic Success & Possibility in Reach for Every Student (ASPIRE)”, a first-year program designed to set students up for success early at F&M. 
• “Not a Major Decision” workshops and academic fair designed to help sophomores in their major declaration
• Leadership seminars
• “Living Beyond F&M Series” consisting of sessions on financial literacy, public speaking, the etiquette of the business meal, and more
• Night of Networking
• Job & Internship Fair
• Senior Boot Camp

Your time at F&M was a transformational experience that helped to forge the path you are on today — a path that can often pivot in ways you don’t expect. No matter your goals — whether you’re securing your first job, applying to graduate school, or contemplating a career change — alumni advisers are available for you.

Gain experience now and a competitive advantage later. Internships allow you to explore fields and job functions of interest, building your portfolio while shaping and inspiring your path. The Career Center will help you discover and land these positions, guiding you through the internship search, application, and interview processes, and facilitating connections with F&M alumni, parents and friends of the College for potential opportunities.
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“Before consulting the Career Center’s student services, I felt overwhelmed about all that I needed to do to secure a summer internship. Working with the Career Center staff made the search for internships more approachable and eased my fears about the application process.”

— Julia Kait ’23

F&M Works in Lancaster is a selective program designed for you to explore your understanding of personal and social responsibility. You’ll contribute to the community by working as an intern at a local nonprofit organization, and engage in meaningful discussions with a cohort of like-minded students about values, belonging, community and leadership — all within the context of exploring the common good. Students participating in F&M Works in Lancaster are paid by the College.

Explore what it means to be a thoughtful and active member of a community. F&M’s Ware Institute for Civic Engagement connects F&M students with opportunities to serve dozens of nonprofits and agencies in the surrounding Lancaster community.

The Franklin Fellowship is an exclusive opportunity at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) reserved for recent graduates of Franklin & Marshall College interested in long-term teaching in Philadelphia.
 
Students applying for the Urban Teaching Residency M.S.Ed. program at Penn are eligible to apply for the fellowship, which includes a $15,000 scholarship that can be combined other merit or need-based scholarships at Penn’s GSE.

Each year, more than 1,000 students seek on-campus employment in a wide variety of positions. These positions are more than just jobs; they are opportunities to build relationships and communication skills while developing your toolkit for careers after F&M. 

If you’re enrolled in at least three credits per semester (a full-time course load), you are eligible for on-campus employment. If you are awarded Federal Work Study or College Work Option in your financial aid package, you are given priority status as an aided student and are eligible to apply for any position on campus. If you’re not work-aided, you are still eligible to work on campus, but will have a limited number of positions available to you. F&M’s Student Employment Office (SEO) will guide you through the position search and hiring process, and match you with positions where you will learn valuable, transferable skills that will benefit you both at F&M and beyond.

If you have questions about student employment at F&M, you can reach out to studentemployment@fandm.edu. 

If you’re looking to connect with students or recent graduates who have exceptional writing, analytical, critical thinking, and creative skills, you’ve come to the right place. Fill out this form to learn how you can post an opportunity or recruit on campus.

True Blue Network for Students

When you enroll at F&M, you become part of the F&Mily: a network of tens of thousands of alumni, families and friends of the College. The True Blue Network — a career network platform exclusive to our community — is a powerful resource connecting thousands members of the F&Mily who consistently raise their hands to recruit, mentor, refer and guide Diplomats during and beyond their time at F&M. Here, you can connect with alumni and parents who have volunteered to support student success beyond the classroom, including internship and career opportunities.

True Blue Network for Alumni, Parents & Friends

Whether you’re sharing an internship, a part-time job, a fellowship, or an opportunity for a full-time career, you can use True Blue Network to help launch an F&M student or recent graduate toward success.