Career Development Center

Hey Everyone! I hope that your school year has been as awesome as mine! I cant believe that I am 2 days away from finishing off my junior year at WPI. I had a lot of fun this year and had all sorts of new experiences. One of the most exciting experiences is this gig [...]

Hey everyone! Well, it’s the end of the Academic Year, and that means I’ll be moving out to Erie, Pennsylvania to work for General Electric Transportation.  Specifically, I’ll be working in Specialized Locomotive Sourcing, which means I’ll be researching, evaluating, and developing proposals for the most quality and affordable goods and services that put together [...]

No time to do much more than zoom through textbooks, inhale caffeine, and get to know the Wings Over delivery guy on a first-name basis? That’s alright.  Me too.  Which is why here’s 5 quick steps you can take to make the most of your last 7 academic days this year at WPI! 1.  Get [...]

Eight more school days from this point forward.  That’s weird.  I thought we were supposed to get more warm weather in the SPRING semester… BUT!  During this summer, there’s a lot more free time when most of us are away from organizations, academics, and school friend groups, allowing us to fill a little bit of [...]

Hey so we get a ton of emails but I just saw one that was super sick… So this week is cool with Quadfest going on but it turns out Thursday has an awesome event. I know everyone is thinking, I am talking about their MQP presentations but no! I am sure those will be [...]

“Yeah, all I really do on LinkedIn is ‘connect with people’ and then log off.  LinkedIn’s whatever.” The students that speak like this either don’t truly care about their LinkedIn profiles, or they don’t really understand how to leverage LinkedIn to their advantage.  In the past three years, LinkedIn as grown exponentially (up 58 Million [...]

Are you nervous for an upcoming phone interview? Please don’t be! It is just like talking to a friend on the phone with a little bragging about yourself. We constantly communicate with family and friends over the phone; so relax yourself by saying ‘this is just another phone conversation’. http://excelle.monster.com/nfs/excelle/attachment_images/0010/5953/interview1_crop380w.jpg?1282060605 Companies conduct phone interviews to [...]

“D Term is going by so fast already and I don’t have a job.  I’ll probably just take the one I had from last summer, or figure out something in my hometown.” It makes me sad when I hear students say this around campus in April, because 1) WPI gets out SO much earlier than [...]

If only it were that easy! It’s the middle of D term. If you’re a student you’re probably searching for a Job. If you’re a sophomore and didn’t sign up to go away for IQP, you’re probably looking for a job and an IQP. If you’re a junior and didn’t sign up to go away for [...]

Hello everyone! As all of you are aware, the Life Sciences Career Fair, which is the last career fair of the year is happening tomorrow! You probably did all the related work throughout the year. Got your resume critiqued, attended some info sessions organized by CDC, attended company info sessions and anything that might get [...]