What to do during your senior year
So, you've reached your senior year and you want to do everything in time to have a job the day after commencement. Following is a suggested month-by-month schedule to help you accomplish that goal.
August/September
- Update profile and resume on eRecruiting.
- Develop a Job Search Plan
- Draft your resume; have it critiqued by Career Services
- Make a list of useful contacts
- Make a list of companies for a targeted phone/mail campaign
October/November
- Meet with Career Services
- Attend Get FIT workshops
- Schedule mock interview
- Interview through Career Services Office
- Prepare and send letters or make phone calls to companies on your list
- Follow up with employers
- Use quarter break to contact prospective employers
- If considering graduate school, take the GRE, attend Graduate School Seminar and apply to graduate schools
- Attend Rose-Hulman Career Fair
December/January
- Write or call alumni and other contacts to ask for referrals
- Use other job search techniques such as online sites, professional journals, classified ads and employment professionals
- Continue on-campus interviewing
- Continue making contacts
- Use winter break to follow up with previous contacts and making new contacts
Mid-January/February/March
- Discuss progress with Career Services
- Use other job search techniques listed above
- Continue on-campus interviewing
- Report offers to Career Services
- Attend the Winter Career Fair
Mid-March
- Prepare for and schedule second interviews, if invited
- Arrange meetings with prospective employers
- Call helpful contacts
- Continue follow-up with previous contacts
- Use spring break to meet with networking contacts
- Report offers to Career Services
April/May
- Take FE exam
- Attend Spring Career Fair
- Discuss progress with Career Services
- Continue to contact prospective employers
- Continue to network
- Discuss job offers with Career Services
- Accept offer
- Report acceptance to Career Services
