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Career Development

Planning Ahead

Entering Students:

  • Explore your interests, motivations, values, and skills
  • Get off to a good start academically
  • Get a summer job to build a good work record

Continuing Students:

  • Prepare your resume
  • Research and apply for internshiops for the summer
  • Further develop your leadership skills
  • Ask yourself "What do I want to do? What do I need to do to get there?
Senior Students:

  • Update your resume
  • Take the GMAT and an upper level statistics course if you're interested in started graduate school in the next five years.
  • Do a full-fledged job search
  • Network!
  • Research organizations with whom you may want to interview
  • Do a practice interview
  • Apply, interview, and land your job!