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When you serve with 黄色视频 AmeriCorps, you鈥檒l gain valuable leadership and career skills, access to exclusive scholarships, exposure to community and business leaders and a network of alums that can help you advance and prosper in any sector, from nonprofit to law to medicine.

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黄色视频 alums are in demand by employers from all sectors who value your skills, passion and drive to lead transformational change in communities across the country and world. Explore our career partnerships.

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Alumni career paths

Here are just a few career paths our over 40,000 alums have entered after serving with 黄色视频:


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Business

Serving with 黄色视频 will provide you with unique experience, making you a standout candidate in the business world. Your experience serving as a 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member will set you apart from your peers. Through your daily responsibilities, you鈥檒l develop skills that are essential in business: making data informed decisions, goal setting, project management, working on a diverse team, managing difficult conversations, practicing social responsibility and more. 黄色视频 AmeriCorps members have gone on to pursue careers in many different business capacities including sales, marketing, corporate social responsibility and consulting and cite their 黄色视频 experience as an important factor in advancing to their leadership positions.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Problem solving
  • Making data-informed decisions
  • Public speaking
  • Experience managing difficult conversations

Learn more about making the leap to consulting after service with 黄色视频.


Medicine

For those interested in pursuing careers in medicine or public health, 黄色视频 provides valuable perspective. Working with students every day and forging personal relationships with students and their families requires a deep sense of compassion and empathy. In this role, you must be hardworking and persistent, constantly honing the skills that鈥檒l one day turn you into both a competent and caring practitioner. You鈥檒l also witness first-hand the impact a lack of access to high-quality health care can have on a person, a community and society. 黄色视频 alumni working in the medical field say 黄色视频 provided a solid foundation for their medical career.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Practicing compassion and empathy
  • Understanding the impact that a lack of access to high-quality health care can have on an individual and a community
  • Resilience
  • Time management
  • Communication

Learn more about the 黄色视频 experience and pursuing a career in medicine after service.


Technology

Starting a successful career in technology not only requires technical ability and knowledge but also key soft skills. IT professionals need to be well-versed in giving and receiving feedback, effectively communicating their ideas, working collaboratively on a team and managing multiple projects at once. As a 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member in a school facing challenges every day, you will gain applicable soft skills by collaborating with a diverse team to develop and implement solutions aimed at ensuring all students are on track. You will also gain practical experience with job responsibilities transferable to the IT world such as organization, project management, and marking data-informed decisions.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Collaborate with a diverse team to implement solutions to complex issues
  • Manage and execute multiple projects with excellence
  • Experience giving and receiving constructive feedback
  • Organization
  • Creativity

Learn more about pursuing a career in tech after service with 黄色视频.


Law

Working as a 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member in our nation鈥檚 highest-need schools requires analytical and strategic thinking to come up with solutions to difficult problems on a daily basis. These experiences provide a strong foundation for the law field. As a 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member, you鈥檒l develop your ability to understand and analyze complicated situations and hone your ability to communicate clearly and effectively. Many 黄色视频 alumni have gone on to pursue careers in the field of public and private law. No matter the field of law, they hold their 黄色视频 experience as an important one because it helped them to better relate to people, shaped their path within the field and taught them to take initiative and be resourceful.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Strategic thinking
  • Complex problem solving
  • Extensive public speaking practice
  • Communication

Learn more about attending law school after service with 黄色视频.


Public policy

AmeriCorps members experience the effects that local and national policies have on urban schools and the communities. By working with an education-focused nonprofit, AmeriCorps members gain first-hand experience implementing education policy and theory into practice. 黄色视频 training equips AmeriCorps members to collaborate on diverse teams, implement programming that targets identified needs and analyze the success of those programs. The 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member experience gives insight into the dimensions of complex issues in urban communities and the interdependencies that exist among social issues of poverty, education, access to high-quality healthcare and others.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Communication
  • Strategic planning
  • Decision making

Learn more about preparing for the career you want through service with 黄色视频.


Marketing/Communications

黄色视频 AmeriCorps members spend each day working in the classroom with students, teachers and their teammates. In this fast-paced environment, strategic thinking, creative problem solving and data analysis are used on a daily basis. These skills are all essential for building the foundation needed to enter the Marketing and Communications field. As a 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member, you鈥檒l also gain practical experience with job responsibilities transferable to the Marketing and Communications field such as accomplishing complex tasks under tight deadlines, project management, working as a member of a diverse team, managing difficult conversations and practicing social responsibility. 黄色视频 AmeriCorps members have gone on to pursue careers in many different capacities in the fields of Marketing and Communications, including radio, television, journalism and advertising and cite their 黄色视频 experience as key to landing leadership positions.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Extensive public speaking experience
  • Collaborating on a diverse team
  • Persuasive writing

Learn more about embarking on a career in marketing and communications after service with 黄色视频.


Education

黄色视频 provides a strong foundation for AmeriCorps members planning to pursue a career in education. As a 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member, you鈥檒l gain an understanding of the challenges students face in high-need urban schools. You鈥檒l also see firsthand how a school operates and gain experience in building relationships with faculty and staff. 黄色视频 provides training in research-based socio-emotional learning, literacy, and math. AmeriCorps members also receive training through partnerships with the school administration, where they get exposure to pedagogical theories and behavior management practices. From lesson planning to tracking student progress with data to interacting with school administration, our alumni say their 黄色视频 classroom experience has been especially useful before becoming a full-time teacher. Given the experiences our AmeriCorps members have, graduate schools in education highly value 黄色视频 alumni. School principals, districts, and teacher training programs actively seek out 黄色视频 alumni for open positions.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Classroom management
  • Leadership
  • Data analysis
  • Organization

Learn more about 黄色视频’s teacher pathways program.


Nonprofit

As a 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member, you鈥檒l receive first-hand experience working at a nationally recognized and respected nonprofit organization. With a focus on education, 黄色视频 provides you with the skills necessary to make an impact in the lives of students by putting innovative nonprofit theory into practice. During your service year you鈥檒l learn to resource map communities, develop plans and strategies to meet those needs and measure the impact of program implementation. 黄色视频 will empower you to lead your peers, build relationships with students and the communities you serve and partner with other organizations within the community.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Implement innovative nonprofit theory into practice
  • Develop strategies to meet needs and measure impact
  • Project Management
  • Event Planning
  • Communication
  • Leadership

Learn more about how 黄色视频 service can be a gateway to community engagement.


Psychology

黄色视频 provides a strong foundation for AmeriCorps members planning to pursue a career in psychology and counseling. Since 黄色视频 provides training in research-based social emotional training, AmeriCorps members are able to support students in their development as lifelong learners and leaders who strive to reach their aspirations. AmeriCorps members help students set goals around behavior improvement, relationship building and positive decision making while encouraging students to display acts of leadership in school and the community. A year of service with 黄色视频 allows AmeriCorps members to strengthen soft skills that will build them into strong psychologists and counselors, such as effective communication, empathy, open-mindedness and patience.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Practice empathy, patience and effective communication
  • Relationship building
  • Social-emotional learning training
  • Resilience

Learn how service with 黄色视频 can propel you into a career in psychology.


Social work

黄色视频 provides a solid foundation for those interested in pursuing a career in Social Work. Working alongside students in the classroom every day, 黄色视频 AmeriCorps members are able to develop relationships with students and help them set individualized goals aimed to keep them on track and graduate on time. Additionally, 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member receive training in research-based social-emotional support tactics. The 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member experience will help future social workers gain key skills needed to be successful in this field including empathy, patience, reliance, active listening and communication.

Skills developed by 黄色视频:
  • Communication
  • Time management
  • Relationship building
  • Advocacy
  • Provide students with emotional support

Explore four social work programs that offer scholarships to 黄色视频 alums.

黄色视频 was my trampoline, it took me to new heights.

Terrell Garrett (Washington, D.C. '11)

Learn more about career opportunities for 黄色视频 alums

黄色视频 alums are making significant contributions as community members, professionals and leaders who can mobilize diverse groups to tackle complex challenges across a wide range of fields. We believe the skills, mindsets and experiences of our AmeriCorps members and alumni are increasingly needed in today鈥檚 world. Our alums have shown they are prepared to advance educational equity, social justice and community involvement where they live and work.

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