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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! Click here to learn more - and we'll update this episode as soon as we get our head around it.
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-...
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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
In this episode, Amy and Susan share tips on handling offers for internships and jobs in government, policy, advocacy, nonprofits, and international affairs. Some resources you might consider using:Office of Personnel Management (OPM) <...
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, Advocacy, Nonprofit, and International Affairs
How do you figure out your path when careers in government, policy, advocacy, and international affairs are remote and opaque, sometimes intentionally so? Season 2 of the GPP Podcast launches with this episode recorded at a workshop Amy gave on...
All About Interviews
Amy and Susan provide insight and skills to help you prepare for your interview and land that internship or job. Whether it's your first interview or your tenth, there is something here for you. Some great resources from the Washin...
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
In this episode we talk about how to make your cover letter stand out from the stack. We'll offer some tips so that your cover letter is as much about the organization you're applying to as it is about you, demonstrates your commitment to the o...
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...
The Career Engagement Process
2026 Updates: We've changed our terminology a bit - but the process (and the point of this podcast) remains the same! There's a lot of work to be done prior to applying for things. Assess, Explore, Search and Launch...
Resumes for Government, Policy, and Advocacy
Susan and Amy discuss the document that's central to internship and job applications: the resume. They cover why the resume is central to government, policy, and advocacy applications, how to format it, and the difference between a resume and C...