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For Employers & Community

Students learn about all the opportunities available to them after graduation during a career fair hosted by The Aspire Program. The Aspi...

Are you looking for interns, employees, or volunteers? The Aspire Center works to connect employers and community organizations with qualified Carthage students and graduates. The Aspire Center can also connect you to faculty experts.

Post Open Positions

Carthage uses the recruiting platform Handshake to post job and internship opportunities for Carthage students and alumni. If you are an employer and wish to find experienced and dedicated employees, sign up on Handshake! The Aspire team will review your company and approve your profile. Once approved, you will be allowed to post your positions. Once you have posted a position, you will be able to view all of our student profiles. 

  • Employer Quick Start Handshake Guide

  • An LMI Packaging employee takes Carthage business classes on site while earning an hourly wage. Carthage Spark: Workplace-delivered education

    Let Carthage help you recruit and retain employees! The new Carthage Spark program offers two highly customizable options for employer partners to attract and keep motivated employees: workplace-delivered education and Carthage student employment.

  • See how your company can partner with Carthage! 
  • Learn more about the Carthage Spark Program


  • Are you looking for rewarding full-time work?

  • Carthage is partnered with LMI Packaging, and LMI is hiring! This well-regarded Kenosha company offers a unique employment benefit: If you’re hired by LMI, you could take Carthage business classes for free, right on LMI’s campus. Classes are offered twice per week between LMI shifts for seven weeks. Plus, laptops are provided.
  • Learn more about the Carthage/LMI benefit

Recruit Qualified Candidates

Explore internship opportunities

Internships have evolved with changing industry needs. While there are still summer and semester-long internships, we can assist you in building micro-internships related to specific projects, creating virtual internships, and more.

Recruit Carthage students and graduates

Carthage is ready to equip your company with the talent you need. Contact The Aspire Center if you are interested in participating in an on-campus or virtual recruiting event. Opportunities include career and internship fairs, individual recruiting events, interviewing coordination and assistance, and more.

Find volunteers

Carthage College recognizes the responsibility and positive impact we can make in our community, and service is an integral part of living and learning at Carthage. We prepare our students for lives of service and progression to leadership by providing opportunities in which students can give of themselves and help others — locally, nationally, and internationally.

Collaborate with Carthage

The Aspire Center uniquely integrates employer relations with community engagement in order to develop reciprocal opportunities and create spaces for innovation. We strive to develop meaningful and long-lasting partnerships with area employers, because we know such partnerships help companies meet their staffing needs and project goals, and help our students gain valuable experience. The Aspire Center can work with you to create distinctive, collaborative experiences with students, alumni, and faculty.

Grant and partner-sustained initiatives

Carthage College vigorously pursues grants, gifts, and other forms of funding to address the needs of the community in collaboration with local, regional, and national organizations. These partnerships are forged from a common mission based on the directive of the organization and expertise of the faculty.

Community-based research

Carthage faculty and students have used course projects, independent research projects, and senior theses to improve quality of life for those in Kenosha, Racine, and beyond. For example, in 2019, Carthage students helped a local health agency by producing detailed maps of opioid overdoses in a geographic information science class. In 2020, Carthage students partnered with the Boys and Girls club to enhance art programming.

Carthage Connections

Carthage is a member of multiple organizations devoted to progress in our region and state including:

  • Wisconsin Private Colleges Career Consortium. WIPCCC supports the development of the career professional at Wisconsin’s independent colleges and universities so that we can better serve our students and employers.
  • Higher Education Regional Alliance. HERA is a unified voice and efficient solution to connect businesses with talent and promote the value of living and working in southeastern Wisconsin.