Career Development

What can you do with a liberal arts degree? A lot—and the Career Development Office is here to help you get there. The office offers everything from resume coaching and career counseling to help applying for our signature Hodson Trust Internships and Pathways Fellowships, as well as interview preparation, graduate school guidance, and access to networking events with alumni and local and national organizations. Don’t wait until your senior year to stop by.

Alumni Success

Our alumni are thriving across fields and sectors like law, journalism, tech, medicine, and education.

College-funded Opportunities

Do we really pay students to prepare for careers?

Career Resources

Not sure what you want to do after St. John’s? Start here.

Hodson Trust Internships

Expand your skills, explore your talents, or test-drive your future career with a funded internship from the Hodson Trust. 

Pathways Fellowships

If you need to take extra courses for graduate or professional study, the Pathways Fellowship can help. 

CELA

The Center for Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts helps connect enterprising students to advice, resources, and alumni.

The Why Advantage

Do Johnnies really have a competitive advantage in today’s economy? Yes—once they understand this truth and how to articulate it.

The “Why?” Advantage:
How St. John’s Graduates Outrival Peers in the Work Place

Professional work consists of procedures: what an organization does, and how it does it.

  • A doctor follows a procedure for a diagnosis.
  • A lawyer follows a procedure for writing a will.
  • A tax professional follows a procedure for accounting.

A good employee masters procedures quickly, asking “What do we do, and how do we do it?”

But a great employee also examines assumptions, asking “Why do we do it, and can we do it better?”

This “Why?” advantage is a direct outgrowth of The Program at St. John’s College.

At St. John’s, faculty teach one primary thing: how to ask the best questions. Students tackle everything from reading Aristotle in the original Greek to solving quantum wave equations.

This kind of education has prompted billionaire Mark Cuban to predict that, in 10 years, “a liberal arts degree in philosophy will be worth more than a traditional programming degree."

Highly skilled workers are pouring out of America’s top colleges and universities – and they’re a dime a dozen.

As artificial intelligence takes an increasing share of the job market, the skills of specialized graduates will be outdated in 3-5 years.

Johnnies provide exactly the opposite: disciplined listening in a world of hypercomplexity; independent analysis in a market besieged by artificial thinking; and the wisdom that develops from 3000 years of interdisciplinary knowledge. 

Together, these qualities are what the future demands and where Johnnies’ competitive advantages lie.

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“What a gift. What an education.” -The New York Times

 

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