Each year Fletcher’s Office of Career Services organizes career events to help students meet employers and alumni working in many different fields of interest. Of these events, the biggest are our career trips to New York and Washington, DC. Each trip is two days, and the agendas are filled with employer site visits, industry panels, networking lunches, and alumni receptions. Classes are cancelled so that all students who wish to participate are free to do so. This year's Washington, DC career trip includes 67 formal events featuring over 160 alumni speakers and hosts. The trip will feature 9 panels, 3 Affinity Group events, 24 site visits, 30 alumni lunches, and an alumni-student reception with 250 alumni attending.
A listing of the 2011 Washington, DC Career trip events is below. The New York trip is similar in format, but with a heavier focus on the private sector and the UN, in addition to the NGOs and think tanks.
- Industry Panels
Policy Research and Think Tanks
Humanitarian Assistance, Refugee Affairs and Human Rights
International Trade and Commerce
International Communications and Media
US Security and Intelligence
International Development
Conflict Resolution
Energy and Environment
Public International Law- Site Visits
Booz Allen Hamilton
OPower
Eurasia Group
Finca
World Wildlife Fund
DAI
Capitol Hill
World Bank
US Department of Energy
Organization of American States
National Democratic Institute
Mercy Corps
USAID
Frontier Strategy Group
US Department of Agriculture
Waggener Edstrom
Renaissance Strategic Advisors
Inter-American Development Bank
IFC
US Department of Treasury
US Department of Defense
UNHCR
Search for Common Ground
Brookings Institution
World Resources Institute
US Department of State- Student-Alumni Lunches
Fletcher GREEN / Fletcher Energy Consortium (FLEC)
Fletcher Political Risk Forum
Fletcher Students in Security
Human Security (Development Club, INCR and Global Women)
Latin America Group / Fletcher U.N. Club
Microfinance & Development Venture Capital Network
Fletcher GLBT/GLIFFAA (Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies)