Career

OCS has created eight Career Communities enabling students to explore a range of career paths. Students are not limited to just one community and OCS recommends exploring broadly across several fields. As you choose your communities of interest, explore relevant news and blogs, career spotlights, and employment opportunities to help you decide if that career path is right for you.

To receive regular updates from the Career Communities:

  • Current Yale Students and Yale Faculty/Staff: Log into the website using CAS Login (enter your Net ID and password), go to Preferences (top right corner under your name). This will allow you to customize the content of your weekly newsletter by choosing among the career communities, affinity/identity communities, and applying to graduate school communities.
  • Yale Alumni, Prospective Students and other Guests: Sign Up Here

  Visit the OCS Career Communities:

Alumni Spotlights

Michael A. Fotos, III, Ph.D.

  • Director of Undergraduate Studies Yale Environmental Studies Major
Meet Michael >

Shannon Sommers

  • Community Human Rights Fellow Yale Law School
Meet Shannon >

Federico Galizia (PhD ’98 Economics)

PhD, Social Sciences
  • Chief Risk Officer Inter-American Development Bank
Meet Federico >

Pianpian Guthrie (MPhil ’13, Sociology)

Masters, PhD, Postdoc, Social Sciences
  • CEO Amotions Inc.
Meet Pianpian >

Nicholas Vincent (PhD ’17, Microbiology)

PhD, STEM
  • Associate Morrison & Foerster
Meet Nicholas >

Ellen Babby (PhD ’80, French Literature)

Humanities, PhD
  • Independent Consultant Nonprofit Management
Meet Ellen >

Elaina Foley

  • Legislative Intern Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Meet Elaina >

Shreeya Singh

  • Research Project Intern Dr. Sarah Cahn, Professor
Meet Shreeya >

Nicole Li

  • Congressional Intern Office of Congressman Steve Cohen (D – TN)
Meet Nicole >

Montana Love

  • Research Project
Meet Montana >

Sarah Borden

  • Human Rights Refugee & Immigrant Program Intern Advocates for Human Rights, Minnesota
Meet Sarah >

Shreyas Raman

  • Innovation Lab Intern Greenwich Library, Connecticut
Meet Shreyas >
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Featured Resources

Forage (Virtual Work Experiences)

Forage offers virtual work experiences, which are online programs built and endorsed by leading companies. Each virtual work experience contains …

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Explore Job Market InsightsIn partnership withLightcast logo

Search continually updated U.S. market trends to learn about job types (job functions), growth trends, and desired skills. The results will include general information about each job (functional area), employment trends from the past two years and projections for the next 10 years, employers that have that role, desired education level, skills for the position, and more!

TWO WAYS TO SEARCH:

  1. Find Career Data by Selecting Keywords: Enter keywords of various job titles and choose a state or search nationwide to learn more about that job.
  2. Filter by Industry and Occupation: Search by industry and choose among popular occupations/job titles within that industry.

First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Community Resources

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YC Career Outcomes

The Office of Career Strategy collects information about Yale College graduates. This tool allows users to search outcomes by year and major. Please visit Statistics & Reports for detailed reports.

Helpful Tips on using the Interactive Tool:

  • There is no Enter or Submit Button – Results will appear automatically with your selections
  • Choose ‘All Years’ or ‘All Majors’- For results across years and majors or check one for more granular results.
    • Default results will show the most recent Class Year.
    • Uncheck the selected major(s) to reset your search.
    • To ensure student confidentiality, results are only reported in the aggregate and more granular data is not available through this public tool.
    • The tool will return results with at least five responses. If you require additional information contact the Office of Career Strategy
    • First Destination Summaries are based on the knowledge rate of graduate outcomes six months after graduation under the guidelines set by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Most Recent Class Overview

Knowledge Rate Success Rate Mean Starting Salary Top Five Industries
86.8% of those graduating between July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021 96.9% employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation $76,359 among graduates employed in the United States. Financial Services, Education, Technology, Consulting, and Healthcare

 

  • First Destination
  • Top Employers
  • Employment Industry and Function
  • Size of the Organization
  • Starting Salary
  • Time of Year Offer Received
  • Internships, Research, and Study Abroad Experiences
  • First Destination Locations
  • Top Universities
  • Advanced Degrees Pursued

First Destination

First Destination refers to the postgraduate plans of Yale College graduates six months after graduation. The pursuits of Yale graduates include employment, graduate school, independent research, military service, and more.

CONTACT & LOCATION

Phone
(203) 432-0803
Email
careerstrategy@yale.edu
Website
http://ocs.yale.edu
Address

55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Fl.
New Haven, CT 06510

SERVICE HOURS

Day of the week
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Monday 8:30am - 5pm 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm 8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm 8:30am - 4:30pm

The office is closed weekends, holidays, and recess days.