Career Advising

Jason Bauer-Clapp

Director of Career Education

Contact me if you’re starting to explore career options, seeking to gain practical experience to try out career interests, are preparing to take your next steps after college, or anywhere in between.

Specialities and interests: career advising for engineering students; internship and job search skills and strategies; graduate school applications; preparing for interviews; reviewing job offers and engaging in salary negotiations

Best career advice I ever heard: It’s important to make good decisions, but spend less time and energy worrying about “making the right decision” and more time and energy ensuring that any decision you make turns out right.

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Patricia Woods ’00

Assistant Director of Career Exploration

Contact me if you’re interested in exploring your career path—wherever you are in the journey.

Specialties and interests: partnering with neurodivergent job seekers and student-athletes; strengths-based assessments; supporting Ada Comstock Scholars and young alums navigating a career pivot. Whether you need an informal career assessment, internship and job search strategies, or help tapping into the power of your Smith network, I’m here to help you connect the dots between who you are and where you’re going.

Best career advice I ever heard: “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

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Anna Silverstein

Assistant Director of Graduate & Professional School Advising

Contact me if you’re considering graduate or professional school and want to talk through the process or if you want to work on application materials and preparation.

Specialties and interests: graduate or professional school in any field, including law school and business school; application materials, including recommendation letters, personal statements, and other application essays; preparing for graduate school standardized tests, such as the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT; contacting faculty; planning for growth years; preparing for interviews; creative writing, community arts, and advocacy nonprofit organizations.

Best career advice I ever heard: Plan your work. Work your plan. Then make a new one!

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AJ Johnson

Career Specialist, Equity Partnerships & Programming

Contact me if you’d like help making a game plan, no matter what stage of the job application process you’re working through.

Specialties and interests: LinkedIn profiles and job searches, utilizing your Smith and Seven Sisters network, interview preparation, résumé and cover letter reviews, talking about how social identity and career path intersect, developing programming with affinity-based groups (reach out if you’d like to work with me!)

Best career advice I ever heard: If you don’t know what you want to do yet, you’re not the only one. And if you think you know what you want to do and change your mind later, you won’t be the only one then either!

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Emily Beaudry

Praxis Internship Manager

Specialities and interests: Praxis internship funding, Internships for Credit, internship search, post-internship reflection

Best career advice I ever heard: If the internship you want doesn’t exist, create your own! We can help show you how.

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Deborah Wijnhoven

Assistant Dean of Employer Partnerships and Career Communities

Contact me if you’re interested in exploring on- and off-campus recruiting.

Specialities and interests: connecting with employers, recruiting, salary negotiations, interviewing prep, networking

Best career advice I ever heard: Leveraging your Smith network is key to building a strong network—personally and professionally. Make strong connections during your internships and first jobs, because you never know how these relationships will become part of your journey.

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Elly Mons

Director of Health Professions Advising

Contact me if you’re interested in exploring career paths in medicine and healthcare professions and/or to work on related application materials and interview preparation.

Other specialities and interests: graduate school programs in Public Health, STEM, humanities and social sciences; study abroad options; careers in law; nationally competitive scholarships/fellowships

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Jess R. Pfeffer

Assistant Director of Science and Health Professions Advising

Contact me if you’re interested in exploring career paths in science, medicine or other healthcare professions, or to work on related application materials and interview preparation.

Other specialities and interests: graduate school programs in the humanities, research proposals, personal statements

Best career advice I ever heard: Success means so many different things. Don’t let someone else define what “success” looks like for you.

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Andrew Dausch

Director of Fellowships & Postgraduate Scholarships Program

Contact me if you’re interested in exploring ways to extend your learning beyond Smith through research, study and public service fellowships.

Specialities and interests: early undergraduate fellowships, international awards, postgraduate opportunities, STEM scholarships

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Jasmine Stork

Assistant Director of Fellowships & Postgraduate Scholarships Program

Contact me if you’re interested in exploring ways to extend your learning beyond Smith through research, study and public service fellowships.

Specialities and interests: early undergraduate fellowships, international awards, postgraduate opportunities, STEM scholarships

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