Career Development

Global Affairs Careers

Yale University has a long history of producing global affairs leaders.  A spirit of public service, and especially global leadership, have been traditions at Yale and to that end, the Jackson Institute looks to increase students’ interest in and knowledge of global affairs work.

In the 2010-2011 academic year, the Career Office offered the following campus-wide services:

• Campus-wide newsletters (one for graduate and one for undergraduate students) sent out weekly
• 33 speaker events including launch panel and 5 featured evening career speaker events
• 11 career skills workshops
• Drop in office hours for any student on campus interested in global affairs – averaging 6 hours of avaliablity per week when classes were in session
• Events promoted on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
• MacMillan LinkedIn group – dozens of jobs posted each week