Career Center
Learn to leverage the power of your liberal arts education and the Muhlenberg network for career success.
Build Skills and Connections
The durable skills all liberal arts students build are critical in today’s rapidly shifting work landscape. Muhlenberg’s Career Center helps students and alumni translate those skills into meaningful career paths.
It all starts with connections, because networks matter now more than ever. Even before the rise of artificial intelligence, 70% of jobs were filled through networks. With AI now screening resumes, employers are relying even more on trusted referrals.
The Muhlenberg Career Center builds your network and equips you with the tools you need to make the most of it.
Career Support and Success
How You’ll Build Your Network at Muhlenberg
The Coaching Program
In their first semester, each first-year student meets with a career coach in addition to a faculty advisor and a college life coach. The career coach helps first-year students develop their personalized Muhlenberg Action Plan (MAP), which guides students through the career development life cycle to create strategies and opportunities while honoring the uniqueness of each student’s goals.
Learn more about our innovative coaching programThe Connections Conference
Each fall, the Career Center invites recruiters, hiring managers, and alumni to campus for a networking-focused event organized around “career communities” like arts and entertainment; business, accounting, finance, and entrepreneurship; STEM; and government, public policy, and law, to name a few. The Career Center’s entire ecosystem is built around these career communities, which allow students to explore broad areas of interest.
Read About the Most Recent ConferenceThe Externship Program
This program connects students to one- to five-day excursions over winter break. During externships, current students shadow alumni, parents of Muhlenberg students, or other volunteers. The program goes beyond traditional job shadowing by emphasizing hands-on engagement and meaningful interaction. Students often participate in projects, attend meetings, and engage in discussions with professionals in the field. No student is too new to begin this type of career exploration — even undecided first-year students are encouraged to participate.
Learn more about our externship programInternship Opportunities
Muhlenberg’s curriculum includes an experiential learning requirement, and one way to fulfill it is through an internship. These experiences are important not only to the student — who gains professional skills and connections as well as a better understanding of the type of career they’d like to have — but also to potential employers. In fact, 91 percent of employers prefer that their candidates have work experience and 65 percent prefer that their candidates have relevant work experience.
Learn more about internships at MuhlenbergCareer Road Trips
During spring break, students can join the Career Center for fully-funded, overnight trips to visit employers in major cities. In 2025, students visited sites in New York City (including the set of ABC’s “The View” and Deloitte) and Washington, D.C. (including the National Nuclear Security Administration and the U.S. Senate). Alumni, some of whom went on these trips as students, serve as hosts — and valuable connections — for the next generation of Mules.
More Career Center Resources
Career Coaching for Students and Alumni
Muhlenberg’s Career Center is proud to support Mules of all ages through personalized, one-on-one career coaching. Current students and alumni with accounts can schedule these appointments through Handshake, our platform that houses jobs, internships, employer events, and Career Center events. Alumni without Handshake logins can contact careers@muhlenberg.edu or 484-664-3170 to gain access and/or schedule a coaching appointment.
Resources for Employers
At Muhlenberg, we utilize Handshake to post internships and full-time jobs for students, recent graduates, and experienced alumni. Employers must create a Handshake account before posting any opportunities. Employers who wish to connect directly with the Career Center can contact careers@muhlenberg.edu or 484-664-3170.
Get Involved With Our Work
We deeply appreciate alumni, faculty, staff, parents, and other champions who take the time to connect and provide real-world learning experiences and career guidance to students. We offer a variety of opportunities for you to get involved!