On changing careers
To the University community:
Following your heart's desire is the most important issue in career planning and development in my view. This is the lesson I have underscored in my work at Princeton over the years. As I launch this new phase of my career, I am provided an amazing opportunity to do just that.
In my work with the Progressive Management Associates, Inc. I will be advising corporations, nonprofit organizations and government agencies on strategies for managing a work force in the new millennium. Strategic plans developed will center on issues of diversity, helping organizations to ameliorate and replace racial and gender tensions with a "positive spirit of inclusion." These new professional experiences offer the promise of the fulfillment of a dream – to achieve something magnificent, to involve myself in work that will have significant national, and possibly international, impact.
Twenty years at Princeton have positively flown by. It has been a truly wonderful experience. I've learned so much, I've developed relationships that I cherish, and I've achieved a strong sense of accomplishment as the result of having led Career Services. Over the years, Career Services has met the growing demands of ever growing constituencies: undergraduates looking for help in developing a process by which to explore careers and gain experience, particularly through summer jobs and "Princeternship Experiences" with alumni; graduate students looking to explore nonacademic careers; and alumni, young ones and seasoned professionals (particularly since the downsizing of the early 90s), looking to either launch their careers in earnest or change careers.
While counseling and advising have been our mainstay, new initiatives have incorporated appropriate use of technology, from thousands of employment notices posted to the Careers Services website homepage through JOBTRAK, to the recent installation of the Internship Exchange (summer job notices posted daily, thousands received annually announcing opportunities all around the world), to the developing website presentation of the On Campus Recruitment Program.
With the change in leadership at Career Services, and as the new millennium approaches, it is my hope that the office will experience an infusion of resources that will allow all necessary services to be enhanced. Anything that I can do in working with the USG Task Force over the balance of this semester to assist in the effort, I am happy to do.
There is a wide world of opportunity "out there." My delight in facing the professional challenges of tomorrow is unbridled. I have a marvelously expansive view of what is yet to be achieved in my own professional development. I look forward to the realization of the dream. Minerva H. Reed Director for Career Services
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