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Category: Career Advice and Resources
Elevator Pitch Handout
From Career Services
Elevator Pitch
While this article and the Carnegie Mellon handout is specifically about career fairs, this is good advice in general. Everyone should be able to explain themselves in 30 seconds or less. Do You Have a Career Fair Elevator Pitch? From https://www.careerfairplus.com/blog/career-fair-elevator-pitch?hs_amp=true Do you have an elevator pitch ready for your next career fair? An elevator …
Find E-Verify Employers
If you are in the METALS program on a F-1 visa, then you qualify for 12 months of OPT. Since METALS is a STEM degree, if your employer is an e-verify employer, as of this writing you will qualify for an additional 24 months of OPT. Find out if the company that you want to …
Job Boards
Michael’s favorite job boards (in no particular order)… Suggested search terms: learn, design… CMU Handshake – companies that specifically recruit CMU graduates: https://cmu.joinhandshake.com/postings AngelList is a platform for startups to raise money online, recruit employees, and apply for funding. It was started in Jan 2010 by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant, who also wrote Venture Hacks. Great source for …
Career and Professional Development
Job fairs are in September and October. Students do make connections and get job offers from these job fairs. So if you have any spare time now, I urge you to work on your resumes and online portfolios now. I promise that you will not have time once classes start. If you don’t have much material, it’s fine to just …