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GPP Podcast: Career Coaching for Budding Advocates, Politicos, Policy Wonks & Social Entrepreneurs
Are you a burgeoning policy wonk, politico, change agent, advocate, or public sector or nonprofit leader? Dreaming of being a diplomat, running for office, or founding a nonprofit? The Washington University in St. Louis Career Center has you covered. Join Amy Heath-Carpentier and Susan Craig, lecturers in international affairs and co-directors of the WashU Career Center's Government and Public Policy Work Group (GPP), to assess, explore, search, and launch a career in the complex and, too often, opaque world of government, policy, nonprofits, and advocacy.
Episodes
18 episodes
Salary Negotiation
Career consultant Andy Harber joins fellow coach Susan Craig to discuss how to negotiate a starting salary in the mission-driven world. Some of the resources they discuss include:
Social Work Licensure
MAY 2026 UPDATE: This process is changing, and fast! The Association of Social Work Boards offers updates - and we'll refresh this episode as soon as we ge...
The Scoop on Fellowships
Dean Megan Peabody joins Susan to share her thoughts on fellowships. She has great advice on when and how to think about fellowships, where to find them and a few you may never have heard of!Learn more about WashU's application process ...
Thinking about Law School
Are you law school curious? Join Susan and special guest Ahmar Ursani to learn about how to think about and prepare for the possibility. Here are some of the resources referenced: WashU Pre-...
How to Make the Most of Your Summer
In this short episode, Amy and Susan offer a few tips for how to learn about yourself, your interests, and what environment you work best in while you're doing whatever it is you're doing this summer. Here's the website we mention...
Offers
2026 Update: Also check out our episode with Andy Harber on salary negotiation.In this episode, Amy and Susan share tips on handling offers for internships and jobs in government, policy, advocacy, nonprofits, and international ...
LinkedIn: Profiles and Tips
Do you have a LinkedIn profile? Wondering how to get more out of the platform? You can mine it for much more than internship listings, but first you should be your profile in order. Amy and Susan provide tips and tricks to getting the most out ...
Figuring Out and Charting Your Path in a Career in Government, Policy & Social Impact
How do you figure out your path when careers in government, policy and social impact are remote and opaque, sometimes intentionally so? This episode was recorded at a workshop Amy gave in 2021 on how to explore these career paths. While perhaps...
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All About Interviews
2026 Updates: Amy and Susan recorded this in COVID times - but much of the virtual interviewing practices remain! We no longer have the live chat option - but you can always drop in to the Center for Career Engagement for some quick intervi...
Just for Parents!
2026 Update: Our career expo (formerly the career fair) now attracts a lot of nonprofits, grad programs and social impact orgs that may interest your student! We also host our own Changemakers Summit in the spring in which we invite local c...
All About Writing Samples
2026 Updates: We no longer have the chat function for on-demand career peer support, but you can bring your writing samples to our weekly pop-ins, or ask a career peer to review it anytime M-F between 9-5. Many applications...
How to Write Amazing Cover Letters
2026 Updates: This is our most popular episode! We share it un-edited. The TL; DR: the cover letter is as much about the organization you're applying to as it is about you. Do the work to take your cover letter from good to great. It's a re...
Search Strategies Part 4: Listings & Job Boards
2026 Update: Careerlink is now Handshake! And the info formerly found on Canvas is now our website, where you will find these additional job...
Search Strategies Part 3: Networking
2026 Updates to this episode:Amy and Susan discuss "Success Stories." These are now called "Student Stories" on our website - where you can also learn about our...
Search Strategies Part 2: Targeting
2026 Updates:Our website has great resources to get you started on targeting! Also, AI is a great tool for this.
How to Approach the Internship Search
2026 Updates: "Success Stories" is now "Student Stories" on our website. Also, AI means the applying without networking is even more soul-sucking these days...Amy and Susan discuss internship search strategies for gov...
