Career Services

Marxe Career Services

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Marxe Career Services is proud to be an award-winning career services office

2025 CSAC Best Practice Award

Innovative CUNY Career Services Programs in Career Readiness

2022 CSAC Innovative Career Services Programs Award

Innovative CUNY Career Service Programs

2019 CSAC Innovative Career Services Programs Award

Collaboration with Campus Community

Launching a career or transitioning into a new one is a journey—and the Marxe Career Services office is here to guide you. From career consultations to on-campus recruiting, the Marxe community gets access to individualized services to help land a dream job in the public sector. Career advisors are here to support you through every stage of your career, as you evaluate your professional goals, develop a plan, and pursue opportunities.

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Incoming Students

Welcome to the Marxe School— we look forward to working with you! For your convenience, Marxe Career Services will create a Marxe CareerConnect account for you at the beginning of your first semester. You will receive an email with your account details shortly after the start of the semester which will allow you to make appointments, RSVP for events, view job and internship postings, and more.

Contact Us

For personalized career guidance, please make an appointment by logging in to Marxe CareerConnect. View the tutorial video to learn how to make an appointment. Our office currently offers appointments by Zoom, phone, and in-person. All appointments must be requested and approved, no walk-ins please. Email mspia.careerservices@baruch.cuny.edu for general assistance.

Marxe Career Services is located in Baruch College’s Administration Building, 135 East 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010, at the corner of Lexington Avenue, 9th floor, Suite 902.

Our Services

Current graduate students and alumni receive a variety of unique, cost-free services throughout every stage of their career, including:

Personalized Resume and Cover Letter Critiques

Students are welcome to make an appointment with the Career Services office for a review and updating of their resume and cover letter.

One-on-One Consulting

Personal career guidance helps each student develop a well-defined sense of personal abilities, interests and past experiences to find the best position and organizational setting. Individual strategies for securing informational interviews are also reviewed.

LinkedIn Profile Analysis

An experienced LinkedIn evaluator is available to offer tips, tricks, and tools to enhance your LinkedIn presence, and help make valuable professional connections.

Mock Interviews

Students can arrange a mock interview with a skilled career services professional and receive real-time feedback to prepare for their next important interview.

Job and Internship Postings

Many employers seek to hire Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs graduates. Current job and internship listings are posted to the Marxe CareerConnect database and announced weekly via Career Services’ newsletter. Current students do not need to create an account; these are automatically generated. Please log in with your Baruch email address and complete your profile. Email mspia.careerservices@baruch.cuny.edu with any questions.

Career Resources

View additional career resources including sample resumes and cover letters, career preparation videos. This page also includes job websites, fellowships, and professional associations by sector.

Valuable Connections

A variety of on-campus recruitment events such as job fairs and career panels are offered throughout the academic year, including the annual Government and Nonprofit Career Fair.

MBTI Career Assessment

Complimentary assessment offered to students and alumni providing an opportunity to explore personality type, and strengths and weaknesses as they relate to their career. Assessment is administered and interpreted by a certified professional.

Undergraduate students are encouraged to utilize Baruch College’s Starr Career Development Center.

For Employers

Are you looking to build a pipeline of future policy leaders for your organization? Candidates from the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College are highly diverse, skilled, passionate about public policy, and prepared to answer tough questions and inspire bold ideas in the public, private, and nonprofit sector. Our campus is conveniently located in Midtown Manhattan, providing ample opportunity to attend one of our career events or pursue direct contact with our talented students.

To discuss how we can work together to meet your organizational needs, contact Marxe Career Services via email at mspia.careerservices@baruch.cuny.edu

We offer a number of ways to connect with Marxe graduate students and alumni:

Job and Internship Postings
Use our free, online career services platform, Marxe CareerConnect to post jobs and internships directly. We’ll ensure your posting is distributed to our 600+ students and network of 9,000+ alumni. If you’d prefer, you can email us a description of the position, and we will post it for you. Please note that this option may take several days.

Marxe graduate degree programs include:

Master of Public Administration (MPA)
Online Master of Public Administration (OMPA)
Master of International Affairs (MIA)
Master of Science in Education in Higher Education Administration (MSEd-HEA)
Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA)
Master of Science in City Planning (MSCP)

To post jobs and internships for other programs and class levels at the College, please connect with the other career centers at Baruch.

Information Sessions
Advertise opportunities and showcase your organization’s mission, values, and culture by leading an information session on campus. We are happy to work with your talent acquisition team to secure space and market your event. While we specifically serve graduate-level public policy students and alumni, we also host joint sessions with the schools of Business and Arts & Sciences for organizations seeking a wider pool of candidates.

Employer Site Visits
Raise the profile of your organization by hosting a small group of students and alumni for an informational site visit. This is a great option if you can’t make it to campus but would still like to provide prospective candidates an opportunity to get a first hand look at your organization and the opportunities available.

Career and Internships Fairs
Participate in our annual consortium career fair attended by graduate students and alumni from the finest public-affairs related programs in the tristate region. This is a unique opportunity for government, nonprofit, and private sector employers to market their internships and full-time opportunities to a diverse range of highly qualified candidates in one place.

Events

Graduate Employment Outcomes

Internships & Fellowships

Internships

Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to obtain public service experience by interning in government or the nonprofit sector. Students are eligible to earn academic credit for internships while developing employable skills and aptitudes.

Graduate Internships

MPA and MIA students with less than one year of administrative experience are first required to complete PAF 9195 Public Affairs Internship for three credits.

MSEd-HEA students with less than one year of administrative experience are first required to complete PAF 9322 Higher Education Administration Internship for three credits.

Visit Marxe Career Services for additional internship support.

Undergraduate Internships

BSPA students are eligible to complete multiple internships for elective credit. Three internship programs are recommended:

City Council Internship

Involves a once-per-week seminar and work in the office of a New York City Council member for eight hours per week for eight weeks. Students learn about the legislative process and obtain a unique perspective on community issues. The current instructor for PAF 5452 is former New York City Council Member and New York State Senator, Prof. Thomas Duane.

New York State Legislature Internships

Students experience first-hand the law-making process and constituent services. Interns reside in Albany, and are assigned to work full-time for legislative offices, contribute to a policy forum, and participate in a mock legislative session. There are separate Assembly and Senate programs. Students receive a stipend and 15 credits for PAF 5001. The deadline for the Assembly and Senate programs are early November. Notifications of acceptance are made in December.

Hagedorn Internship

We are pleased to announce the Hagedorn Internship Award program. Funding is available to Marxe students who participate in an unpaid internship position at a public service nonprofit organization or government agency.

The Hagedorn Internship Award is made possible through the generosity of the Hagedorn Family who continues to honor the legacy of Amy Hagedorn, an alumna of Baruch College.

The Award

The award is up to $3,000 per recipient. The award funds will be issued in two installments. The first half will be awarded once the Marxe students have been selected and the second half will be awarded upon completion of the internship work during the specified time-frame and submitting a satisfactory Employer/Supervisor Evaluation.

Eligibility

This award is for graduate and undergraduate Marxe students. For specific eligibility requirements please check below.

For more information, please contact MSPIA.BSPA@baruch.cuny.edu

Fellowships

Baruch College’s Office of National and Prestigious Fellowship Advising can help guide you through the steps to any kind of fellowship, from building your connections to faculty, to refining your initial ideas and all the way through the stages of writing your proposal.Fellowships offer incredible opportunities to expand horizons, broaden knowledge, and increase value as a future employee or degree candidate. There are hundreds of different scholarships and fellowships available to qualified students that can be found on Baruch’s Searchable Fellowships Directory. Please contact Baruch’s Fellowship Advisor to identify which programs are ideally suited to your background and goals.

Meet the Career Services Team