How helpful is the Cornell Engineering Career Center?

oldfort
Sun, 24 Jul 2016 11:27:20 +0000

This maybe a bit helicoptering…If you are afraid your kid may not be as proactive as he needs to be, you can get access to Cornell’s career center website to find out when there are job fairs, and what jobs are available for him to apply. My older kid was going into a very competitive field. I helped her quite a bit with her job search process initially.

Cornell’s career center has a fairly strict guideline on using their services, for both employers and students. Your son should be familiar with it or he may be banned from using it. https://www.career.cornell.edu/students/jobs/recruiting/upload/StudPolicies15-16.pdf

One thing I want to point out is that a lot of current students and alumni recommend their friends for jobs at their company. CS/engineers are in high demand from Cornell. As an example, a student is doing an internship at a company, he/she is graduating to take on a permanent job, the manager may ask if he/she knew of anyone from school that may want the internship next year.