Edited By: Devyani Gauri Mrugami Mahadik graduated in May 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. She is currently working as a Consulting Analyst at Accenture within their Strategy and Consulting Applied Intelligence practice. Part of her job is
By: Maira Zamir, Peer Career Coach Does it matter if you go first or last in an interview order? Here is what you should know: Primacy Bias This is a concept that interviewers tend to remember the first candidate easily
By: Maira Zamir, Peer Career Coach A little networking 101 for you guys: learn how to master the art of conversation. It may seem like a daunting and impossible task at first but at the end of the day, it
By: Priscilla Akpabio, Peer Career Coach Before attending a career fair there should be a mental checklist you go through to make sure you have everything and are fully prepared. Our office has gone ahead to create this list and
By: Devyani Gauri, Peer Career Coach As an international student, the first time I ever got exposed to job searching was when I started looking for a job on-campus. As daunting as it seemed, with time and quite a bit
By: BJ Engelhardt, Director of Operations Thought exercise: think back to some of your favorite movies or TV shows about powerful people, especially powerful people in a modern context. Think about movies about world leaders, Presidents, big business tycoons/leaders of
By: Peer Career Coach Priscilla Akpabio I am currently a fourth year Mechanical Engineering student at Illinois Tech. I transferred into IIT in 2018 having a vague idea about what I wanted my career to look like after graduation. I
Edited by: Maira Zamir, Peer Career Coach I graduated from IIT in 2010 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Marketing. Since graduation, I’ve worked at digital marketing agencies, earned a MBA from Northwestern University and am now
Edited By: Maira Zamir, Peer Career Coach Javier Sorribes graduated from Illinois Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering in May 2018. He has been a Software Engineer at Google since then, first working in Google Hire (an
Aslinur Taskin graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2019 with a Bachelor of Architecture specializing in Digital Design. While studying, she has worked for Site Design Group, SOM, and Mana Contemporary; in model making, urban planning, and landscape projects.