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Thought Piece: Does order matter when it comes to interviewing?

Thought Piece: Does order matter when it comes to interviewing?

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

Tiara DeGuzman November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 Career Services Read more

The Art of Good Conversation

The Art of Good Conversation

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

Tiara DeGuzman October 14, 2020 Career Services Read more

How to Prep for the Career Fair

How to Prep for the Career Fair

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

Tiara DeGuzman September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 Career Services Read more

How to use “The 2-Hour Job Search”

How to use “The 2-Hour Job Search”

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

Tiara DeGuzman September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 Career Services Read more

You are SO much more interesting than your text-based self

You are SO much more interesting than your text-based self

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

Tiara DeGuzman September 11, 2020 Career Services Read more

Cummins Co-op 2020: My Biggest Takeaways

Cummins Co-op 2020: My Biggest Takeaways

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

Tiara DeGuzman September 6, 2020 Career Services Read more

Alumni Spotlight: Lory Mishra

Alumni Spotlight: Lory Mishra

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

Tiara DeGuzman August 25, 2020 Career Services Read more

Alumni Spotlight: Javier Sorribes

Alumni Spotlight: Javier Sorribes

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

Tiara DeGuzman August 17, 2020 Career Services Read more

Alumni Spotlight: Aslinur Taskin

Alumni Spotlight: Aslinur Taskin

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.

Tiara DeGuzman August 12, 2020 Career Services Read more

Alumni Spotlight: Victoria Sabo

Alumni Spotlight: Victoria Sabo

Victoria Sabo was a Chemistry major at Illinois Tech. She says that during her time at IIT, she learned mostly from working in labs and taking part in researches that are readily available during the fall, spring and summer terms.

Tiara DeGuzman August 3, 2020 Career Services Read more
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