Career Services Center Staff

Career Counseling by Major

Susanne Mahoney Filback
Director and Associate Dean of Students
Manages the Career Services Center
sfilback@cmc.edu

Susanne was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area before heading south to attend college at Pepperdine University.  She enjoyed her experience so much that she stayed on after earning her B. A. in Political Science and Communication  to work in their Public Relations Office and then as an admissions counselor.  Following her years in Malibu, she worked at a college in Budapest, Hungary, before returning to Los Angeles to work as a corporate recruiter for McKinsey & Co.  She joined the staff of the CMC Career Services in 1998.  Susanne lives with her husband and 3 children in Pasadena.

Young Kwak
Associate Director
Oversees recruitment, employer relations, and career counseling to alumni
ykwak@cmc.edu

Born in Seoul, Korea, Young immigrated to the U.S. in 1983 and lived in New York Cith for 3 years.  After a brief stint in Delaware, she moved to California and has been here since 1987.  As an undergrad, she double majored in Psychology and Crminology at UC Irvine and received her M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration from Harvard Graduate School of Education.  Before joining CMC in 2004, she worked at UC Irvine's MBA Career Center as Internship Coordinator and at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as Residence Hall Director.  Young lives in Corona with her family.

Beth Ricca (photo unavailable)
Associate Director/Director of Internships and Volunteer Programs
Oversees internships and community service/volunteer programs
bricca@cmc.edu

Beth was born in New York and grew up in New Jersey.  After graduating from the University of Delaware with a teaching degree, she wasn't quite sure what she wanted to do.  After working in human resources for two years and earning her M.Ed. from Monmouth University she knew she wanted to stay in higher education.  Beth worked at Monmouth for 6 years before relocating to Southern California.  She has been at CMC since 2000 and recently purchased a home in Claremont where she lives with her husband, 2 daughters and 2 great danes.

Charlene Kile
Recruiting Coordinator
Handles on-campus recruiting logistics and budgetary matters
ckile@cmc.edu

Charlene was born in Pomona and has always been a resident of the Inland Empire.  She attended Pitzer Collge and Chaffey College.  She began working in Career Services at Claremont Graduate Univeristy in 1981 and came to CMC in 1999.  She enjoys working with the students and in the campus environment.  She has two grown sons, a daughter-in-law and two beautiful grandchildren.

Sandra Aguirre
Secretary
Manages the office
saguirre@cmc.edu

Sandra is a Southern Californian and has an extensive work experience in corporate America.  In 1998 she decided to transition from the recruiting team at Accenture to the career services team at CMC in order to acheive life balance with her young family.  She takes great pride in helping students prepare for life after CMC and shares her business knowledge and life's lessons with them.

Student Career Consultants
careerservices@cmc.edu
909-607-7038

Mollie Amkraut '10
Economics and Psychology
Shae Blood '10
Environment, Economics, and Politics (EEP)
Vanessa Carter '08
International Relations and Government (dual)
Roshunda Calhoun '08
Econ-Accounting with Financial Economics Sequence
Rebecca Offensend '08
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Jordan Stewart '09
Government with Leadership Sequence
Cindy Thio '-08
Econ-Accounting with Financial Economics Sequence
Kenley Turville '10
Biology