Career Development Center

The Career Development Center (CDC) at WPI is here to assist students in the development of life-long skills related to careers and the job search process. CDC serves not only undergraduate students but graduate students and alumni as well. Information and guidance is provided in the areas of full-time employment, graduate school, part-time employment, cooperative education and summer positions.

The Career Development Center (CDC) provides a variety of services to students including the following:

  1. Individual Career Counseling - Students can arrange to meet a Career Counselor by appointment or during walk-in hours. Help is provided in many areas including assistance with major selection, making career choices, resumes, devising a job search plan, interviewing and applying to graduate school.
  2. Career Resource Center - CDC maintains literature and information about various companies that recruit on campus so that students will be well prepared for their interviews and have a reasonably good idea whether they would be interested in a particular company. CDC also provides vocational resources for students researching and exploring various careers. For those students considering graduate school, the center provides information of graduate education at WPI and elsewhere. The center also houses information on standard examinations required by many graduate schools such as the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), and Law School Admission Test (LSAT).
  3. Career Fairs - Each year the CDC organizes job fairs for students to obtain information of full-time, part-time, summer and co-op opportunities.
  4. Career Workshops - Throughout the year a variety of workshops are offered to students. Topics have included: Resume/Cover Letters, Job Search Strategies, Summer Job Search, Job Offer Decision Making, and Applying to Graduate School.
  5. Company Presentations - Information sessions are provided by recruiters so that students have an opportunity to evaluate and learn more about the companies interviewing on campus.
  6. Job Listings - The CDC posts full-time, part-time, summer and co-op opportunities. Students and alumni can access job listings through the CDC’s web-based system.
  7. On-Campus Interviews - Annually the CDC brings companies to campus to interview students. Over 200 private, government, civic and professional companies and organizations have participated in this program. Employers interview for summer, co-op or full-time employment. To give you an idea, here are a few organizations which have employed WPI graduates in recent year:
    • Analog Devices
    • BAE Systems
    • General Dynamics-Electric Boat
    • General Electric
    • IBM
    • Kiewit Construction
    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • National Grid
    • Naval Undersea Warfare Center
    • Pratt & Whitney
    • Raytheon
    • Teradyne
  8. Resume Referral - Students can house their resume in the CDC’s web-based system. Employers can access students’ resumes in two ways, a web resume book or referrals by the CDC for specific positions.
  9. Alumni Assistance - After students graduate from WPI, the CDC provides assistance to alums seeking new employment or facing a change in career goals.
  10. Graduate Studies - The Career Development Center (CDC) and the graduate coordinators in each department can provide information on graduate education at WPI or elsewhere.

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Most graduate schools require applicants to take a standard examination such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Information on such examinations is available from the CDC, the Department of Management, or the Office of Graduate Admissions.

Location: The Career Development Center is located in the Lower Level of the Project Center. The phone number is 508-831-5260.

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Last modified: February 02, 2009 11:42:48