Beyond Haverford
Lifelong Connections
Haverford Connect —
Thousands of Haverford alumni are eager to help you make your next move. Through Haverford Connect, our alumni directory and professional networking platform, 3700+ alumni have volunteered to offer career support, advice, and guidance. Through the system, you can: • Explore and connect with the alumni
Ivan Quezada Taveras ‘22
community
Taveras is an associate consultant at IBM’s Corporate Headquarters in New York City.
The opportunity to manage your own learning, collaborate with faculty, and connect knowledge across disciplines builds a framework that you’ll use forever. Whether you’re destined for graduate, law or medical school, entrepreneurship or the arts, the business or banking realms, or elsewhere in the world at large, you’ll always find yourself applying the unique academic and social skills you cultivate at Haverford. —
The Center for Career and Professional Advising (CCPA) helps you explore and prepare for meaningful jobs, careers, and post-graduate experiences. Last year, the CCPA provided:
1,165
Advising consultations
635
Resume, cover letter, and essay reviews
PROFESSIONAL ADVISING
Advising focuses on professional development, communicating in professional settings, and building your confidence in networking and developing relationships, especially with Haverford’s dedicated and accomplished alumni and potential mentors. You will be guided to recognize and articulate the excellent analytical and communication skills, specialized knowledge, and remarkable leadership experience you’ll develop at Haverford. JOB AND INTERNSHIP SEARCH
The CCPA works with employers, maintains job boards, and hosts recruiting days, job fairs, and other events that help you connect with professionals in your desired fields. The CCPA assists you with finding and securing internships, externships, and post-graduate jobs and opportunities.
160+
College-sponsored internships
• Find jobs and internship opportunities posted
by alumni
• Access a wide range of resources • Participate in the Extern Program
15,000+ NETWORK OF ALUMNI
Class of 2022
Members of the Class of 2022 were surveyed at graduation and over the course of the following eight months. Additional post-baccalaureate activity data was incorporated from College and social media sources. 94% of the class is reflected in this data.
88
Information sessions and workshops
POLISHING YOUR PROFESSIONAL IMAGE
You can also come to the CCPA for guidance and resources to help you craft polished and professional cover letters, resumes, correspondence, and online profiles.
APPLYING TO GRADUATE SCHOOL
Get help navigating the application process for graduate and other professional schools. If you are interested in pursuing Ph.D. programs, you’ll receive guidance from Haverford faculty in your selected discipline. Haverford has a dedicated pre-health advisor as well as a pre-law advisor, both housed at the CCPA. NETWORKING
The CCPA hosts and participates in many networking events throughout the year and provides guidance to help you successfully utilize the many resources available.
67.2% EMPLOYED 20.6% GRADUATE SCHOOL 9.8% SEEKING EMPLOYMENT 2.4% VOLUNTEERING/TRAVEL/OTHER
Some of the places the Classes of 2022 and 2023 are living, working, and continuing their studies:
Graduate Schools —
SHARON WILLIAMS ‘23 Major: Psychology at Bryn Mawr College Post-grad plans: Sharon Williams is starting her post-grad career at the Vanguard Group, an investment advisory firm, where she works as a portfolio implementation associate. Williams plans to further her education by attending graduate school to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology.
3,700+ 64%
active alumni users on Haverford Connect, our alumni networking and alumni directory platform
open rate of messages in Haverford Connect
BEN PHAM ROODMAN ‘22
JARED HELLER ‘23 Major: History
Minor: East Asian Languages & Cultures Post-grad plans: Jared Heller earned a bachelor of arts in history with a minor in East Asian languages & cultures during his time at Haverford. He began his career as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, with future aspirations in private equity or even to start his own company.
3,750+ 800+ messages between alumni and student/ alumni users via Haverford Connect
students with an activated account on Haverford Connect
SARINA SMITH ‘23 Major: Biology
Major: Mathematics
Minors: Economics & Scientific Computing Post-grad plans: Ben Pham Roodman, a mathematics major who minored in economics and computer science and concentrated in scientific computing, started a career at the intersection of finance and social impact. He joined several Fords working for Public Finance Management (PFM), a public finance group offering consulting services to public entities like local governments, universities, hospitals, and transportation companies.
Minor: Health Studies
Post-grad plans: Sarina Smith ‘23 is currently working as a lab technician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Looking to the future, Smith has plans to pursue a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology with an emphasis on neurogenetics. She also hopes to get more involved in patient advocacy and communicating science to the public.
For more stories about what Fords are doing after graduation, check out the Haverblog series, Where They’re Headed, at hav.to/wth
Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University Dartmouth College Duke University Harvard University Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Northwestern University Oxford University Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University The George Washington University University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of Chicago University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania Washington University
Employers —
Amazon American Museum of Natural History AmeriCorps Capital One Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Citigroup City of San Francisco Compass Lexecon Cravath, Swaine & Moore Dana Farber Cancer Institute Epic Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Gerson Lehrman Group Goldman Sachs IBM Corporation J.P. Morgan Chase
Massachusetts General Hospital McKinsey & Company Meta Microsoft Corporation Morgan Stanley National Institutes of Health Ogilvy PwC Quaker Voluntary Service Teach for America UBS University of Pennsylvania U.S. Department of Justice Vanguard Wistar Institute
Cities —
Atlanta, GA Boston, MA Chicago, IL Greensboro, NC Haverford, PA Los Angeles, CA Malvern, PA New York, NY
Palo Alto, CA Philadelphia, PA San Francisco, CA San Diego, CA Seattle, WA Verona, WI Washington, D.C.
Countries —
Canada England France Ireland Luxembourg
Scotland Spain Taiwan Thailand