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Getting Ready forLife after Mudd
Family Weekend 2018
Judy L. Fisher, Director
Office of Career Services
Engaging with Students Coaching
Jason Jeffrey, career coach
with Joshua Lam ’17
Providing Opportunities
Weekly Newsletter
Easy to navigate website
Research at HMC & REUs
Internships/Jobs on Handshake
3 Career Fairs
Employer Info Sessions
Alumni
Choices
Meeting with Faculty Research
Delivered
on Mondays
Weekly
Newsletter
Accessing Opportunities through Handshake
Students can upload their resume and create a profile which allows them to search for internships, jobs employers. It is a 7C shared database and provides access to national employers.
Listings
Meeting with Employers
•Two fairs are offered in fall semester -September & October
•A spring fair is held in February
• Employers schedule information sessions all year to promote their company and positions. These include tech talks, puzzle hunts, etc.
Fairs & InfoSessions
Hearing from HMC Alumni
Careers in Biotech
Non-STEM careers
Programs
Connecting with Professionals Networking
Panel
with
Apple
Summary
• Handshake career management system
•Weekly newsletter
• Career fairs, information sessions, tech talks
• Organization websites
• Clinic
• Alumni, faculty, staff
• Family, friends
Methods
Summer Experiences - Stats
Based on 2017 Senior Survey
Experience As First Year As Sophomore As Junior Summer Math 90 n/a n/a
Internship 34 59 95
HMC Summer
Research
48 64 49
REU (off
campus
research)
3 18 16
Work 36 23 24
Other 34 20 10
TOTALS 245 184 194
Based on
2017
Exit Survey
Internships – The Impact on Employment
Academic Years Total Graduating
Job Seekers
Job Seekers
Employed Where
They Interned
2016 105 39
2015 109 28
2014 91 16
2013 105 19
2012 108 17
Making Plans for after Graduation
By the end of the junior year, students should have a “game plan”…employment, graduate school, gap year, etc.
However, things can change.
Viewable on
the OCS website
Results
Sample Employers - Internships
• Aerospace Corporation
• Apple Inc.
• Applied Minds
• Bloomberg
• Cisco
• Dart Neuroscience
• Hewlett Packard
• Honeywell
• Hulu
• Intuit
• Jet Propulsion Lab
• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• Microsoft
• Millennium Space Systems
• Northrop Grumman
• Pacific Northwest National Lab
• Pixar
• SpaceX
• Tableau
• Wet
• ViaSat
• Yelp
Sample Employers - Full-Time
• Accenture
• Applied Materials
• Alta Motors
• BD BioSciences
• Capital Group
• Citadel
• Citi
• Fenwick & West
• Formlabs
• Gilead Sciences
• Green Hills Software
• Johnson & Johnson
• Niagara Bottling
• Northrop Grumman
• Originate
• QuanticMind
• Rigetti Quantum Computing
• Saleforce
• Trellisware
• Verily Life Sciences
• Walt Disney Company
• Zenith
Graduate Schools
• California Institute of Technology
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Duke University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Harvard University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
• Northwestern University
• Princeton University
• Stanford University
• University of California: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco
• University of Cambridge
• University of Chicago
• University of Michigan
• University of Southern California
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
Helping Your Student
• Talk openly with your student about his/her plans
• Emphasize the importance of having a plan for summers but remember it is okay if they just want to come home
• Discuss decisions, but allow your student to make the decision
• Encourage extracurricular involvement especially leadership
• Be patient & supportive
Questions
Platt Campus Center
909.621.8091 | [email protected]
https://www.hmc.edu/career-services/
Paul Hardister
Associate Director
Jason Jeffrey
Career Advisor &
Employment Developer
Elizabeth Saelzler
Program/Employer
Relations Coordinator
Staff