 Many
factors should be considered during the search for a position. Salary, location, size
of company, opportunity for advancement, scope of work, projects,
educational support, and others should be evaluated. In any market,
networking is an excellent way to surface job
opportunities. Also, professional associations
can sometimes offer insight into market concentrations and available
positions.
 Employer
Lists
Several societies
contributing to the Career Cornerstone Center have compiled the
following lists of employers. While these lists are not considered
to be all inclusive, they can be a good starting point for a job,
internship, or coop search.
Internet
Links
There are also a variety of websites that can help in
identifying positions and narrowing a job search:
Career Cornerstone Center Profile Excerpts
The following excerpts from Cornerstone profiles offer examples of
how they found their current positions:
 Lori
Laird
Biomedical Engineer
Guidant Corporation
Santa Clara, CA
"I found my job in a
specialized field by expanding my job search, first by networking
through members of the local ASME chapter, and
second, by direct contacts with companies in my target
industry."
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 Thomas
Niederkorn
Core Technology Leader
Procter & Gamble
Cincinnati, OH
"I learned about the job through a posting with the chair of the
chemical engineering department, and I sent them a resume. It was kind of
an interesting situation, because the job description was almost an
identical fit to what I had done for my thesis. So there was some obvious
common ground there. From that, we arranged an interview and the offer
came."
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 DeAnne
Hellyer
Imaging Media Product Planner
Lexmark International
Lexington, KY
"When I was done with my undergraduate degree, before I decided to
go to graduate school, I went through the placement office and looked at
jobs. Then I made my decision to go to graduate school. When I finished
with my graduate degree, I went through the career placement services
there at Carnegie Mellon also. They had people from various companies come
on-site, and that's where I did my interview and got the job offer."
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 Stanley
Gable
Section Supervisor
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, NY
"What's really interesting and this kind of goes against the laws
of probability because when I was going back to graduate school, a lot of
people said, 'What would you possibly do with a Masters in Mathematics?' I
had no contact at all with Kodak, but for some reason, I thought, 'Well
maybe I can work in a place like Kodak,' for no apparent reason I had that
in the back of my mind. I didn't do anything in particular to single Kodak
out. It was one of many companies I pursued or sent letters to but it
turned out to be one of the few that I got responses from and I ended up
being here. So it's a bit of a coincidence."
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 Franklyn
Hall
Chemical Engineer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC
"Howard University had a career fair, actually it had two each
year. One was more geared towards engineering, and the other was a general
career fair. I took advantage of those. That's how I got my internships
and made a lot of contacts, even people that I knew that I never had
contact with. I was able to use some of those contacts to find out what
the employment opportunities were at different companies, and that's
actually how I got the opportunity to be interviewed here, through calling
someone up who I hadn't even spoken with in probably about two years who I
met at a career fair. I came in for an interview, and was hired a few
months later."
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 William
Huang
Process/Specialty Engineer
Fluor Daniel Inc.
Sugar Land, TX
"Recruiting is the primary way to go about finding a job, but
that's not the only way When I applied for my internship, I looked at the
yellow pages. I called every engineering company and when I got to "F,"
Fluor Daniel actually offered me an interview over the phone. I think
there are ways to look for leads. The newspaper is one way. You can kind
of get an idea of what companies are hiring, what the industry and what
the market is like. You can contact professional societies; they have
contacts throughout the world in all areas of engineering and all
industries. So I think if you only look at the recruiting aspect of on
campus, you are limiting yourself. And also, you're competing with all the
other students that you're attending classes with as well as at the other
targeted universities."
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S. Serrette, E.I.T.
Project Engineer
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
White Plains, NY
"I also do recruiting as part of my job. A lot of people think we
look for the highest GPA, but we don't really. We talk to people and
see what their interests are. GPA it's good but it's not the only thing we
look for. We see what their interests are - what their goals are - and see
if it fits in with the goals of the company. So you know it's just not
about your grades it's about what you want in life and what you want to
do. So my advice to somebody looking for a job is you've got to be well
rounded and know what you want to do."
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