Meet the Team

The Coaching team provides targeted support through market-relevant coaching, high impact programs, and online resources. We empower students to understand themselves, identify career goals, and create a personalized strategy.

Career Development Philosophy

Because varied situational, contextual, and market influences may affect the career development process, we believe in educating students about:

  • Complexity: Recognize influences and emerging patterns and identify and explore options to make informed career decisions.
  • Chance: Embrace change and curiosity. Use open system thinking to pursue interests and seek new opportunities through small steps.
  • Change: Identify factors within and outside of one’s control and prepare and respond to change with optimism and adaptability. Deconstruct false and limiting beliefs and construct plan of action reflective of all aspects of identity.
  • Competencies: Identify opportunities to develop and demonstrate sought after skills. Align strengths and skill development with market and societal changes for market congruence.

Professionalism Policy

  • Students registered to attend a Career Development program, event, or appointment are expected to attend or cancel at least 24 hours in advance.
    • You can cancel your appointment by email, phone, or online, without penalty up to 24 hours before the appointment time.
  • Students are expected to communicate any delays or late arrivals before any Career Development event or appointment they’ve RSVP’ed.
    • Failure to attend three scheduled appointments without providing sufficient notice may result in the suspension of your coaching privileges for the semester. Coaches are able to wait up to 10 minutes during the appointment time for you to show up or communicate, after that, it is considered a No_Show.
  • Read the full Kogod Professionalism policy housed at this link

Andrea Carpenter

Assistant Dean, Career Services

Andrea Carpenter has been with Kogod since 2011 and leads the Office of Career Engagement team of professional and student staff to deliver career services and programming for undergraduate, specialty MS, MBA, and alumni populations. As a Nationally Certified Counselor and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, she works with students and alumni using a strengths-focused approach to gain a better understanding of themselves and the world of work and provides the resources for them to connect their skills and interests with meaningful career opportunities. Andrea earned a BS in Psychology from University of Valley Forge (formerly VFCC) as well as an MS in College Student Personnel from Shippensburg University.