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Career Development Resources for Erdman Center Students

The same personalized, applied approach we take to your education, we also take to your job search. Many resources are available to assist you in finding the ideal job or internship.  Here are just a few, with more details below:

• Erdman Center
• Industrial Advisory Board
• Alumni
• MBA Career Services
• Engineering Career Services
• Professional Associations

One of the main partners in your career search is the Center Director.  The following is the range of services made available to students:

• Meeting on a regular basis to review your career goals, including exploring job functions, industries and companies of interest.
• Reviewing and critiquing of your mock interview videos
• Reviewing/revising your résumé and sample cover letter
• Following-up with contacts you made via job postings, attending info sessions, or through other job search related activities
• Checking weekly job postings on the web - forwarding to you, and contacting the employers
• Attending and promoting OTM students at on-campus Job Fairs
• Promoting and attending on-campus employer information sessions
• Connecting you with members at companies of interest
• Conducting Job Search Workshops specifically for OTM students
• Providing information about events to increase your visibility, including case and business plan competitions
• Participating in regional and national professional association events to promote OTM

Erdman Center Industrial Advisory Board members are eager to see you become successful and can help by:

• Mentoring
• Leading roundtable sessions on career progression and strategies
• Reviewing résumés, and pass them on to their HR departments
• Conducting mock interviews
• Attending Board meetings and social events hosted by the Center to get to know you better
• Forwarding full-time and internship opportunities within their companies and networks

The Erdman Center/School of Business Alumni databases are available to you for:

• Contacting Erdman Center and school alumni at organizations of interest so they can forward your résumé and promoting your application internally to their firms
• Providing academic and career advice from the alumni perspective

MBA Career Services Office staff is available to help you in a number of ways, including:

• Conducting specific career sessions for OTM MBAs (for example, Résumé Roundtables)
• Offering a web-based recruiting system for searching job postings, submitting résumés, and signing up for interviews
• Conducting workshops on career related topics
• Assisting with individualized help with résumés, letters, contacts, and salary negotiations
• Organizing on-campus employer information sessions

Engineering Career Services is another resource that you can take advantage of. This office’s assistance includes:

• Accessing companies of interest, job postings, and contact names via the website
• Inviting you to ESC Career Connection (Spring and Fall Career Fairs)

You can gain a great deal from involvement with professional and student associations (like APICS, CSMP, ASQ, AISP, etc...). Opportunities include:

• Utilizing association sites for identifying full-time and internship opportunities
• Attending association meetings to learn, present and -- above all -- to network.