Late last month, Juli-anne Jensen of Career Services began holding weekly Tuesday office hours in the Lewis Center for the Arts for students interested in careers in the arts, non-profits or public service.
Career Services began offering the Lewis Center office hours in response to feedback they had received from students who were unsatisfied with the guidance Career Services provides for students interested in the arts or non-profits, Executive Director of Career Services Pulin Sanghvi said.
“We want to meet student interests,” he said.
Jensen currently holds regular office hours at Career Services in addition to the newly initiated office hours at the Lewis Center. She has also already hosted several industry information sessions in which she explains, for example, the process of how a film moves from writing to the screen.
Jensen has worked in film and theater, and now serves as associate director for arts, nonprofits and the public sector at Career Services.
“A lot of students are already familiar with the art itself,” she said, explaining the industry around the art is where they can benefit most from guidance.
Dalma Foldesi ’15, an architecture major, said her interest in design and art museums has kept her away from Career Services, as she said she felt the organization lacked connections to relevant internships. However, she said the new Lewis Center office hours seemed like a step forward and said she was interested in attending them.
Neeta Patel ’16 said she wants to pursue her interest in graphic design but has not engaged with Career Servicesbecause she didn't have any expectations about what they would be able to do. She said that most of the opportunities in the field are easier to come by through advisers and people in her department than through the sort of internship offerings she had come to expect from Career Services.
Part of Career Services’ motivation in offering the Lewis Center office hours is to improve its advising for students who want to enter the fields in which personal relationships and connections count for more than formal application processes, Sanghvi said, adding theyare also part of a broader Career Services effort to expand its physical presence on campus.
Jensen is a fellow in Mathey College, where she eats meals with students and where in February she hosted an Oscars party.
“[I hope] a much greater proportion of everything that Career Services does is outside of the walls of 36 University Place," Sanghvi said, adding the idea is for Career Services to reach students where they normally are and in a less formal setting.
Last year, Kemy Lin ’15 cowrote a guest submission toThe Daily Princetonian calling for Career Services to expand its offerings, and saidshe appreciates the new office hours but expressed some concern that the office hours alone are not sufficient.
“If you want to work in the arts, you need to do a lot of internships … before you break in," she said, explaining that, at New York University, many students are able to take internships for credit during the academic year.
Students interested in the arts at the University have no such option and are at a relative disadvantage, she said.
Jensen said her past two Tuesdays have been very full and she is looking forward to meeting more students.
“All the students here are so cool,” she said.
Clarification: This article has been updated to clarify that Pulin Sanghvi is the executive director of Career Services.
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