{"id":16183,"date":"2024-03-01T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=16183"},"modified":"2024-03-01T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T17:07:57","slug":"elizabethtown-college-career-development-center-hosts-creative-careers-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/elizabethtown-college-career-development-center-hosts-creative-careers-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Career Development Center Hosts Creative Careers Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elizabethtown College Career Development Center recently hosted its second annual Creative Careers Week from Feb. 26 through 29, featuring engaging speakers who work in creative careers, including several alumni.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThis event is a great way for Etown students to explore career paths, learn what to expect in numerous creative careers, and make professional connections with employers and alumni,\u201d Elizabethtown College Assistant Director of Career &amp; Professional Skills and Development, Carolyn Rigo said. \u201cCreative Careers Week is important for any of our students wanting to pursue a creative career such as writing, graphic design, or music.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speakers detailed their career journey and explained how their degree connects to their current work. They also provided advice on student career paths and discussed the ways their field of expertise was changing. Students had the chance to ask questions during the sessions and network with speakers. Two new sessions were added to this year\u2019s slate of events, including sessions on freelance work and portfolio advice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Careers in Graphic Design:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jack Hulme \u2014 Creative Director, Gable<\/li>\n<li>Kristyn Lapp \u2014 Graphic Design Team Lead, Clark Associates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Careers in Web Writing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carly Miller \u201923 \u2014 Digital Marketing Specialist, TrackFive<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Horst \u201911 \u2014 Senior Editor, Social 5<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Careers in Professional Writing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rachel Grove Rohrbaug \u2014 Archivist, Elizabethtown College Archives<\/li>\n<li>Phoebe Birch \u2014 Senior Content Writer, Webstraunt Store<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Waters \u2014 Director, Elizabethtown College Bowers Writing House<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do Hiring Managers Look for in Portfolios:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wendy Sheaffer \u2014 Senior Director of Creative Services, Elizabethtown College<\/li>\n<li>Kristen Phipps \u2014 Design Manager, The Restaurant Store Team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Careers in Music:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kristyn Beeman \u2014 Music Therapist and Managing Partner, WB Music Therapy<\/li>\n<li>Melanie Walborn \u201911 \u2014 Music Therapist and Managing Partner, WB Music Therapy<\/li>\n<li>Brad Eargle \u201911 \u2014 Composer, Juniata County School District and Neon Monkey Music<\/li>\n<li>Mike Cook Rymshaw \u201916 \u2014 Community Development Specialist, Gretna Music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Creative Freelance Work:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emma Pile \u201921 \u2014 Freelance Photographer<\/li>\n<li>Suzy Yorty \u201900 \u2014 Freelance Graphic Design, Writing or Layout of Print<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elizabethtown College Career Development Center recently hosted its second annual Creative Careers Week from Feb. 26 through 29, featuring engaging speakers who work in creative careers, including several alumni. \u201cThis event is a great way for Etown students to explore career paths, learn what to expect in numerous creative careers, and make professional connections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":16196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[1691,1529,2170,2175,197,1350,2169,1517,2174,2171,54,2173,1875,509,2172],"class_list":["post-16183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-career-development","tag-career-development-center","tag-careers","tag-creative-careers-week","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-etown-career-development","tag-etown-college","tag-freelance-work","tag-graphic-design","tag-music","tag-portfoliios","tag-professional-development","tag-professional-writing","tag-web-writing","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16198,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions\/16198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}