How helpful is the Cornell Engineering Career Center?

MOMANDBOYSTWO
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 16:15:33 +0000

From your experience, do the folks in the Cornell Engineering Career Center try hard to help individual undergrad students get paid summer jobs, co-ops, and future real jobs? Do they practice interviews with kids, improve their resumes, and work with them one on one to find job placements? Do they help find international summer study or work abroad opportunities for the engineers too?

With over 3,000 undergrad engineers at Cornell, I am just concerned that the Career Center employees may not have a lot of time for personal attention? My son is quiet and introverted. I’m worried how he will do in interviews and get a job. He will be a freshman engineer this fall.

We did like a Career Center manager we met on campus one day, but does the need for career counseling exceed the supply of experienced counselors. Does the same office serve the graduate students as well?