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Finding Jobs in a Pandemic

Finding Jobs in a Pandemic

By: Priscilla Akpabio With everything happening in the world right now, things like job searching seem even more impossible right now. In this post, I will be sharing some useful tips on how to get started with getting your dream

December 21, 2020 Career Services Read more

Lessons Learned from having a Virtual Internship

Lessons Learned from having a Virtual Internship

By: Xochitl Castel, Peer Career Coach If you are preparing to apply for an internship for the summer of 2021, chances are the position will be virtual. Having had a virtual internship myself, I would like to offer some advice

December 14, 2020 Career Services Read more

Alumni Spotlight: Karina Aguilar

Alumni Spotlight: Karina Aguilar

By: Xochitl Castel, Peer Career Coach Karina Aguilar is originally from Chihuahua, Mexico but has lived in Chicago since the age of 12. She has had an interest in architecture since high school and knew that IIT would be the

December 11, 2020 Career Services Read more

Alumni Spotlight: Mrugami Mahadik

Alumni Spotlight: Mrugami Mahadik

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

November 13, 2020 Career Services Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

September 6, 2020 Career Services Read more
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