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| Peter Kaldes, Esq. (IR '98) talks with Odmaa Otgonbileg (IR '06)
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A Major Network: IR Alumni Return to Tufts for Career
Development Night
By Kirk Lange, IR Assistant Director
IR majors are famously broad-minded--their scope of interest extending to every
global region and countless international issues. Yet at this time of year, many IR
majors, particularly seniors, fix their attention on a single, thorny issue: What
after Medford?
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| Tufts students network with alums during IR Career Development
Night 3/6/06
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To help students answer this question, the IR Program is ramping up its career
development activities in a growing partnership with the Tufts Office of Career
Services (CS) and IR alumni. The kick-off event in this effort was the inaugural IR
Career Panel and Alumni Networking Night, held March 6th in Dowling Hall.
It was a promising start on multiple counts.
Please see our Spring 2006 news
& views edition for the full article.
From Tufts to ABC: IR Alum Shares His Post-Graduate Story
By Kirit Radia, IR Alum, LA '05
Kirit Radia, currently ABC News' off camera reporter/producer at the State Department,
shares his experiences since graduating from Tufts last year.
Just 14 months ago I was living the Senior Year nightmare -- scrambling around the country
in search of a job, hopping from one uninspiring interview to another. As an International
Relations student at Tufts, I had always imagined that I would end up in a career in the
Foreign Service or in a Washington think tank or perhaps even working abroad for an NGO. I had
never thought much beyond those obvious applications of my IR education, even though I was
constantly reminded how universally applicable my studies really were.
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Photo of Terry Moran doing a live shot outside of
the Supreme Court
Photo courtesy of Kirt Radia
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Finally, upon realizing that perhaps my true aspirations lay beyond those I had originally
envisioned for myself, I began to consider other avenues. A professor suggested an internship
with ABC News in Washington, DC. The thought of working in a national newsroom was foreign to
me, having had no previous media experience. I applied thinking that my chances of being accepted
were, at best, slim.
When I received word that I had been accepted, I began to think how this might really be a
perfect situation for me. I had always enjoyed the news and the thought of being paid to stay
on top of current events was very attractive. I would be in my favorite city getting access to
our country's decision making process. The combination seemed certainly worth a try. I would do
the internship for the summer and, if I didn't like it, I would take my other job offer -- a
vanilla desk job as a glorified telemarketer (and I'm using the word 'glorified' quite
liberally).
My internship was an incredible, intoxicatingly exciting experience. By my second day I was
calling embassies arranging interviews with African presidents for our then Senior White House
Correspondent Terry Moran. That next Monday I was shaking hands with the President of Botswana
as we interviewed him about the upcoming G-8 Summit in Scotland, during which Africa was to
figure prominently.
Please see our Spring 2006 news
& views edition for the full article.
Get involved as an alumnus!
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