How important was the alumni network for you/your D/S?

momofboiler1
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:15:51 +0000

DD’s school strongly urged all freshmen to visit the career center the very first month of school. They helped students pull together a resume, practice their elevator pitch, and gave them tips for the career fair. The school has an app so students can search which companies are coming, who is looking for which majors, and who would be open to talking to freshmen. The career center walks kids through all of that and everyone was encourage to attend the first career fair to practice. DD said that many of the companies brought employees that were grads of the school. Lots of students, dd included, went back to the career center in January to help updating the resume again prior to the end of January career fair. A number of freshmen who went to that fair landed co-ops and internships.

The support and structure is crucial but students definitely need to be self motivated to take advantages of the services and opportunities.