Your Career STARTS Here

Presented by Dottie CatlinENG Career Development Office

Agenda

Overview of Internships Employers that Hire BU Students How to Find an Internship Errors on Your Resume to Avoid The Interview – FAQ’s and Mistakes Made Questions?

10 Reasons to Gain Industry Experience

1. Build your resume- Employers increasingly want to see experience in the new college grads they hire.

2. Internships are the best path to gain a job after graduation.

3. Utilize the skills learned in your academic setting to complete industry projects. Then bring the skills you learned in industry back to help you with school projects!

4. Opportunity to learn or better your soft skills, time and project management and oral presentation skills.

5. Take your career plan for a test drive.

10 Reasons to Gain Industry Experience(continued)

6. Establish and expand your professional network- receive references from your internship supervisors!

7. Experience office culture - get an idea of what kind of company you want to work for when you graduate.

8. Build positive work habits.

9. Gain confidence.

10. Learn to manage expectations with peers and managers in industry.

Differences Between Co-ops and Internships

• Co-ops tend to be a full-time or part-time job worked during the academic year

• Internships tend to be associated with summer employment

• However, often these terms can be used interchangeably

• Please search for both opportunities – don’t narrow search to one or the other!

Top Companies

Some of the top companies that hire ENG students for an internship:

– GE

– Schneider Electric

– Accenture

– Medtronic

– Microsoft

– MIT Lincoln Labs

– Raytheon

– Phillips North America

– The Mathworks

– Depuy Spine, a Johnson and Johnson Co.

Biomedical Engineering Internship Employers

1. Medtronic2. Sanofi - Genzyme3. Philips4. Abiomed5. Accenture6. J&J Companies, including DePuy Spine7. Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center8. Brigham and Women’s Hospital9. GE Healthcare 10. Biogen

Mechanical-Aerospace-Manufacturing Internship Employers

1. GE2. Accenture3. Rockwell Automation 4. Pratt & Whitney5. 3M Corporation 6. Engineering Planning and Management, Inc.7. BAE Systems8. Raytheon9. Saint Gobain10. Avidyne Corporation or Anheuser Busch

Computer Engineering Internship Employers

1. Abiomed2. Microsoft3. Freescale Semiconductor4. Intel5. Makai Ocean Engineering 6. Google7. MITRE Corporation8. Siemens USA 9. Akamai Technologies10. Fidelity Investments

Electrical Internship Employers

1. Analogic2. Delsys, Inc. 3. EMC4. Hamilton Sundstrand5. The Mathworks6. Mitsubishi7. mZeal Communications 8. Teradyne9. Texas Instruments10.Schneider Electric

Systems Internship Employers

1. Hewlett-Packard2. Grasshopper3. Dassault Systems4. General Dynamics Electric Boat5. General Electric6. Philips7. MITRE Corporation8. Praxair9. Raytheon10. Verizon

Material Science Internship Employers

1. Anheuser-Busch2. Boston Scientific3. Meditech4. Medtronic5. MIT Lincoln Laboratory6. Portsmouth naval Shipyard7. Pratt & Whitney8. Accenture9. Mass Life Sciences Center10.Saint-Gobain

Where to Search for Internships1. BU CareerLink: https://careers-bu-eng-csm.symplicity.com/students

As an Engineering student you have access to Engineering and the Central Office through BU Careerlink

2. On Campus Employer Information Events (CareerLink)

3. Career Fair (ENG Fall and Spring)

4. ENG CDO Events – Networking Nights, Employer in Residence

5. LinkedIn groups and jobs

6. BU ENG and school wide Alumni Relation’s Office

7. Professional Associations’ on and off campus – IEEE, ASME, BME Career Alliance, SWE, Mass Clean Energy Center

8. Professors/Professional Staff

9. Students ahead of you in your program

10. Parents/Relatives/Family Friends

11. www.internjobs.com, www.internmatch.com, www.internhub.com

Keep in mind that company needs change, so an EE student may hear from a company that usually hires BMEs because of projects that are going on at that time.

Employment time-frames

• Standard placement timeframes:– Summer: May-Aug– 4 months: Jan-May, Sept-Dec– 8 months: Jan-Aug, May-Dec, Sept-May– 12 months: Jan-Jan, May-May, Sept-Sept

Errors on your Resume to Avoid!

1. Inconsistent format

2. Too much/not enough white space

3. Spell check important!

4. Not utilizing action verbs

5. Didn’t proofread

6. Don’t include your social security number

7. Don’t include personal information such as citizenship, age, race, religion, gender, marital status, etc….

8. References can go on a separate document

9. Don’t use first person pronouns

10. You shouldn’t include your picture

Frequently Asked Interview Questions

1. Tell me about yourself.

2. Why should we hire you?

3. Why did you choose this field?

4. What do you consider to be your major strengths and weaknesses?

5. Why did you decide to seek a position with this organization?

6. What do you know about our organization?

7. Tell me something about yourself that’s not on your resume.

8. What’s your favorite activity and why is it your favorite activity?

Frequently Asked Interview Questions

6. What are your long term goals?

7. Describe a time that you dealt with a conflict.

8. Describe a time when you set yourself apart on a team or in a project.

9. Give me an example of a time when you had to sell a tough idea. How did you go about it?

10. Tell me about a time when you demonstrated your leadership skills.

Mistakes Made in an Interview

1. Show up late/not at all

2. Not having positive interaction with ALL company employees

3. The “dead fish”

4. Lack of eye contact…not demonstrating interest

5. Unprepared/Haven’t done your research on the organization and people you are meeting

Mistakes Made in an Interview

6. Your Appearance

7. Overemphasis on money, interested in only best dollar offer

8. Negative comments about previous employers

9. Not getting your interviewers contact information

10. No questions for the interviewer

11. Not following up with a thank you letter

Questions?

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