The Career Connection Program (CCP) has been in existence since 1996 and has about 250 members. It is designed to provide career information and personal insight from various career fields to current students and alumni. CCP information is divided into the following career fields: Business, Communications, Education, Engineering, Health Services, Information Technology, Law/History, Religious Professions, Research/Sciences/Lab, Social Services, and other Service Professions. To view the current listings, please click here.

Who can use the CCP?

Anybody can peruse CCP Information on this website as well as binders located in the Brickley Center, but only current ENC students or alum can contact CCP members directly. To arrange a contact with a CCP member for the purpose of an informational interview please call 617-745-3892 or email us.

The CCP is a wonderful tool to obtain insiders’ job information from ENC alumni who are interested in sharing their career insights with current ENC students and alumni. Most CCP information continues to be housed in the Brickley Center and can be accessed by visiting our office and perusing CCP binders, by calling our office at 617-745-3892 and requesting information, or by emailing us your request. A limited number of members have completed our online CCP membership form and their information can now be accessed via this website. Whether you peruse this website or CCP binders located in the Brickley Center you will be able to obtain information regarding current employment, employment history, the job market, and advanced schooling of ENC alumni.

Current ENC students and alumni can also arrange to contact CCP members directly for further discussion and/or an informational interview by contacting our office at 617-745-3892 or by sending us an email.

Those ENC alum who are interested in providing information about their career field and their professional experiences to current students and ENC alum can complete a membership form online. All information submitted will be number coded, reviewed, edited, and placed into an appropriate career field on this website. Information placed on our website will exclude identifying information such as name, address, telephone numbers. Identifying information will be housed in the Brickley Center and will be released only to current ENC students and alumni for the purpose of gaining additional career information via an information interview. By completing a membership form you give us permission to place your career information on this website.

1. Call your contact.
2. In a friendly, warm manner greet your contact and state the reason for your call (Make reference to the Career Connection Program at ENC).
3. Ask if you could set up a phone or in-person appointment with then for a 20-30 minute interview to talk about their job.
4. Thank them for their time and willingness to talk with you.
5. When the time arrives for your appointment, be on time!
6. Ask some of these suggested questions:
   

• Describe what you do on a daily basis.
• What is the greatest reward and the toughest demand of your job?
• What advice would you have for getting into this field?
• Is there anything you would have done differently to get to where you are?
• How is the job outlook in this field?
• If your job was eliminated, what other kinds of work could you do?
• What professional associations would you recommend I join?
• How do people find out about jobs in this line of work?
• If I could not get into this kind of job right away, where would you recommend I get some further experience?
• Can you recommend other people for me to talk to?
  
  Be sure to end the interview on time (within 30 minutes).

7. Sincerely thank your interviewee.
8. Send your interviewee a thank you note the evening of your interview.
9. Keep in touch with your contact to inform them of your progress.

• Do not be overly assertive. Tact and diplomacy go a long way!
• Be interested in the person you are talking with.
• Sample widely. Realize you are getting a biased position.