CS Radio - The Official Podcast of University of Pennsylvania Career Services

As Homecoming approaches this weekend, we’re taking a look about the variety of services we offer to Penn alumni. We’re joined by Penn alum and Career Services employee, Ferrell Townshend, who will talk about how we work with alumni applying to medical school. Michael and Mylène highlight other services, including our network of private career counselors. All that, plus the usual rundown of this w...

Next week marks a first for Career Services – summer internship recruiting for select industries will begin in the fall! Michael and Mylène are joined by On Campus Recruiting Managers Marlene Cohen and Debra Smiley Koita to discuss why this change was made, what students should expect from the process and how you can participate in OCR while studying abroad. All that, plus the usual rundown of thi...

This week we’re pleased to welcome Esther Ra to the studio. Esther is a new part-time counselor here in Career Services, working with students in the School of Nursing, the Graduate School of Education and the school of Social Policy and Practice. Esther is going to talk about some of the services we offer students in SP2 and highlight two upcoming events for that audience. Mylène and Michael also...

Welcome to Season Two of CS RADIO! Your hosts A. Mylène Kerschner and J. Michael DeAngelis are back to guide you through everything that is new and happening at the University of Pennsylvania Career Services office. After a busy start to the semester, we can’t believe it’s already October, but there’s plenty to talk about. We take a look at the newest changes to PennLink, discuss the new LinkedIn...

It’s our last episode of the season! Getting ready to start a new summer internship? J. Michael DeAngelis and A. Mylène Kerschner review some “best practices” that will ensure you make a good impression at your workplace and create lasting value for your experience. We also make a plea to current Penn students to fill out their career plans and/or summer surveys and run down the last of this semes...

It’s the penultimate episode of the season and we’re encouraging you all to stay home! This week, Mylène and Michael explore the many Career Services resources available to Penn students and alumni online. There’s so much you can do from home – including researching employers and industries, taking a self-assessment, reviewing sample resumes, and more. Plus, there’s still lots of events on the cal...

Thinking it’s already too late to secure a summer job or internship? This week, Michael and Mylène take a look at the 2015 summer survey data that shows plenty of undergraduates didn’t secure their summer activity until the end of April or later. We’ll take an in depth look at what undergrads from every class and school do with their summer and discuss taking “traditional” summer jobs like life gu...

This week, Mylène and Michael are honored to welcome Julie Vick into the studio. Julie is the co-author of The Academic Job Search Handbook, which has just been released in a new 5th edition. Julie talks about her many years of working with graduate students in Career Services, the challenges facing them today and why The Academic Job Search Handbook is such an important tool. We also discuss the...

While Penn students were away on spring break, A. Mylène Kerschner and J. Michael DeAngelis stayed in the studio to talk about the Career Services Summer Funding Opportunity in this first of a two part episode. Enjoy! Our theme music is “The Strip” by Mala , used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. CS Radio is also available as a video podcast! Visit our YouTube channel to watch!

It’s almost spring break!! What better way to start of your week of wild adventures and all night parties than with the All Ivy Environmental Career Fair? A. Mylène Kerschner and J. Michael DeAngelis bring in Associate Director Jamie Grant to make the case. Plus, we offer up some easy ways to be productive over the break, including taking a look at LinkedIn. All that, plus the usual round up of th...

Greetings, podcast lovers! This week, Mylène and Michael take a look at two big events being held on campus. First, Mylène discusses Penn’s month long Power Down Challenge and the Careers in Sustainability panel that Career Services is hosting as part of the program. Then, we welcome Lauren Kemp into the studio to talk about what to expect at Friday’s PennDesign Career Connection Day. All that, pl...

It’s career fair time! Penn is hosting three big career fairs this week: the Creative Career Fair (covered in Episode 13), the Start Up fair and the Spring Career Fair. This week, Mylène and Michael focus on the Start Up fair and welcome one of the fair’s organizers, Tiffany Franklin, to the studio. Tiffany will discuss what to expect at the fair as well as give our listeners an overview of how st...

Love is in the air in this pre-Valentine’s Day episode! Mylène and Michael are joined by the Director of Penn Career Services, Patricia Rose, to discuss the question of loving what you do versus doing what you love. If you’re unable to do what you love, how can you find elements of what you love in another job? How can you even know what it is you love doing until you do it? All that, plus the usu...

Early February sees many Career Services programs related to careers in entertainment, including an amazing alumni speaker and our Creative Careers job fair. In preparation, Michael and Mylène welcome two students guests from the Class of 2016 into the studio. Ann Mollin, who interned at several Hollywood production companies, is joined by Samantha Apfel, who spent a summer at William Morris-Endea...

Happy 2016! Mylène and Michael are back with a new batch of podcasts for the spring semester! This week, we take a look at the on-campus recruiting process for internship recruiting that begins in February and take a look at the vast amount of programming that’s coming up in the next week. Enjoy! Our theme music is “The Strip” by Mala , used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. CS Radio i...

It’s our winter finale and the last podcast of 2015! This week, A. Mylène Kerschner and J. Michael DeAngelis review what you can do over your winter break to optimize your job search – and satisfy nosy relatives around the holiday table! (We also recommend catching up on all of our podcasts!) We hope you’ll join us again starting in January 2016 for all new episodes! Have a safe and wonderful wint...

We’re back! Our Thanksgiving hiatus ended up being extended by a week – we hope you didn’t miss us too much! This week, we’re very excited to bring you live to Nursing Career Day 2015. Mylène and Michael interview several employers at the event about what they look for in candidates from Penn and they speak with Senior Associate Director Sharon Fleshman from Career Services about what makes Nursin...

This week, we’re very excited to welcome our first student gust! McKenna Finger is a junior in Wharton and she joins us this week to talk about the power of networking and how she leveraged connections she made through Penn, friends and family into working opportunities. Mylène and Michael also provide some networking tips for everyone preparing to return home for Thanksgiving break. All that, plu...

Welcome back to the podcast! This week, A. Mylène Kerschner and (birthday boy) J. Michael DeAngelis take a look at career timelines. We’ll look at ways you can use Career Services at different points of your undergraduate experience, as well as look at data from our career plan survey reports that show when Penn students accept job offers (Spoiler: You don’t need to worry about having a job secure...

Radio. CS Radio. Welcome to Episode 007! J. Michael and A. Mylène are shaken, but not stirred as they cover career fair preparation in advance of Thursday’s International Opportunities Fair. College assistant Alyssa Perkins-Chatterton stops by to talk about the work that goes into organizing a career fair, as well as to share some of the feedback she receives every year from the employers who atte...

Happy Halloween from CS Radio!! In this the spirit of the season, J. Michael and A. Mylène share their personal interview horror stories this week. Thrill to Michael explaining in an interview why he might quit right away! Chill to Mylene’s webcam of horrors! It’s all too terrifying! Luckily, your ghost hosts also have solid advice on how to avoid these terrors in your own interviewing. Plus, as a...

Sorry for the delay! We’re a day late in posting, but he hope it was worth the wait. In this week’s episode, we look at how to research employers and graduate school programs to figure out if you’ll be a good fit. We welcome Senior Associate Director Todd Rothman to tell us about today’s Graduate School Meet Up program and he reveals his surprising dream career! All that, plus the regular rundown...

In this week’s episode, you can learn all about our upcoming Clinical Volunteering Mixer from Carol Hagan, Associate Director of the Pre-Graduate & Professional School advising team. Meanwhile, Michael and Mylène talk about how to best feature volunteer experience on your resume and why volunteering is just as valuable as work experience. As usual, you also get a look at the week ahead and hig...

In this week’s podcast, hosts A. Mylène Kerschner and J. Michael DeAngelis welcome Tamara Mason, assistant for the Wharton undergraduate and Engineering teams in Career Services. The topic is negotiating job offers and we tackle everything from asking for the salary you want to Penn’s policies regarding “exploding offers” that employers sometimes impose on students. As always, we also preview the...

The second episode of our new podcast is now live! Join hosts A. Mylene Kerschner and J. Michael DeAngelis as they walk you through the basics of Penn’s On Campus Recruiting process. Later in the show, we’re joined by Associate Director for the College of Arts & Sciences team, Heather Trannen. Enjoy! Our theme music is “The Strip” by Mala , used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. CS...