Jenna Cassoli
Career Center
Graduate Program: Clinical Social Work (Health Concentration), 2013
Home Town: Norfolk, MA
Undergraduate University and Major: Tufts University, Psychology and Community
Health
Other Relevant Experience (i.e. other internships, professional involvement):
Social work field placement at Alcohol and Drug Education in OHP/ODSD, Student
Advising at Northeastern Foundation Year, College Counseling at Boston Community
Leadership Academy
Favorite GA Experience: Working with RAs to create career-related programs,
collaborating with other GAs, and Science Night!
Project most proud of: Planning, advertising, and running Science Night
Dream Job: Some kind of position that involves art therapy with inner city high school
students
Supervisor Says…
“Working with an experienced, hard-working Graduate Assistant who cares about students is a dream come true.
A part time Graduate School of Social Work student, Jenna Cassoli is in her third year as a Graduate Assistant at the
Career Center.
Jenna coordinates Career Center programming for RA’s so she can often be found in the residence halls doing
workshops such as Resume Prep, Interview Skills and Internship Search. As the sciences liaison, she coordinates
Science Night, a program giving students the chance to learn about careers directly from BC alumni working in the
field. She also does weekly science drop-in hours. Many students recognize Jenna by now and look for her during
her drop-in hours in Higgins.
The roles of RA liaison and sciences coordinator, as well as other Career Center programming and drop-in duties,
keep her pretty busy but she still finds time and energy to add her own creative ideas to Career Center
programming. In May of last year she initiated and coordinated, along with GA Tiffany Enos, a successful Senior
Day program designed as a last ditch effort to reach out to seniors who had not yet visited the Career Center. She
also initiated a customized bulletin board program for RA’s. The RA’s let her know what their residents are
interested in and she puts together all of the materials. The RA’s then come by the Career Center to pick up
envelopes for their ready-made bulletin boards. It’s a great way to get career information to students and makes
life a little easier for the RA’s.
I am currently trying to talk Jenna into becoming a career counselor. She connects to the students wonderfully, has
great career programming skills and seems to very much enjoy what she is doing. Next year will be her last year in
the GSSW program and as a Graduate Assistant. It will be extremely hard to let Jenna go. She has been a
tremendous benefit to the Career Center and to Boston College students. Luckily, I still have her here for the rest
of this year and next so I think I’ll put off thinking about ‘life after Jenna’ until 2013.”
- Janet Costa Bates, Associate Director of the Career Center