Career Communities
Our six career communities help students explore their interests while creating distinct, industry-specific micro networking within the wider Skidmore Network. Each community comes with a career advisor who specialized in that area.
If you're passionate about creative expression, storytelling, or the visual and performing arts, this community helps you explore opportunities in media, journalism, design, and entertainment.
Careers you may be interested in:
- Social Media
- Marketing/Advertising
- Editorial
- Journalism
- Production
- Arts Administration
- Fashion
- Fine Art
- Graphic Design
- Interior Design
- Performance Art
If you're drawn to entrepreneurship, financial management, or corporate strategy, this community helps you explore opportunities in business, banking, and consulting.
Careers you may be interested in:
- Accounting
- Auditing
- Entrepreneurship
- Human Resource Management
- Investment Banking
- Operations
- Risk Management
- Sales
- Strategic Planning
If you're passionate about public service, policy-making, or legal systems, this community helps you explore opportunities in government, advocacy, and the legal field.
Careers you may be interested in:
- Federal, State, and Local Government and Agencies
- International Relations and Diplomacy
- Law and Legal Services
- Political Offices and Campaigns
If you're mission-oriented and are considering community, education, or nonprofit work, this community helps you explore opportunities with NGOs, in human services, in environmental impact, and more.
Careers you may be interested in:
- Teaching
- Administration
- Human Services
- Nonprofit Organizations (NGO’s)
- Social Work
- Earth and Environmental Studies and Sciences
If you're fascinated by innovation, coding, or data analysis, this community helps you explore opportunities in software development, cybersecurity, and data science.
Careers you may be interested in:
- Data Analytics
- Software Developer
- Software Engineer
- Computer Science Teacher
- Mathematics Teacher
- Financial Engineer
- Biostatics
- Actuarial
- Computer Programming
- Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine
- Nursing, Physician Assistant
- Occupational and Physical Therapy
- Public Health
- Biomedical Sciences
- Neuroscience and Physiology
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticals
Alumni in these industries:
Arts, Design, and Media
Ariel Plotnick ’15 is an audio producer at The Washington Post and a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award winner for her work on audio stories about the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Business, Finance, and Consulting
Derrick Yam ’17, Director of Data and Decision Science for the Baltimore Ravens, oversees scouting research, running simulations and scenarios to guide the team's draft decisions.
Government and Law
Michael Cavanagh ’03, an enforcement branch chief in the Ninth Coast Guard District, oversees maritime law enforcement across the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.
Health and Biomedical Sciences
Ibardo Zambrano ’06 is a urologist at Novant Health, specializing in oncology and robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery for bladder, kidney, and prostate cancers, as well as urinary tract and reproductive disorders.
Social Impact and Education
Brendan Woodruff ’09, the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC’s) first-ever director of sustainability, focused on lowering the department’s environmental footprint.
Take advantage of free online learning resources offered by various Ivy League schools. With over 850 courses available in subjects ranging from Art and Design to Computer Science and Engineering, you can enhance your educational journey at no cost.