Complete a self-assessment of your career interests and start exploring areas of career
uncertainty.
• Review CMU resume guides and resources.
• Polish your resume.
• Research and create a list of companies that you’d love to work for.
Attend a group resume review session.
• Using feedback from the review session, polish and edit your resume.
• Attend other relevant career-related workshops.
• Attend employer-sponsored activities.
• Consider attending the Technical Opportunities Conference in Pittsburgh.
• Apply for summer internship opportunities that you learned about at TOC and interview.
• Add CMU staff, faculty, and fellow students as connections on LinkedIn.
• Research contacts at the companies on your list (LinkedIn is a great resource for this), CMU
alumni, friends, friends of friends, recruiters, etc.
• Add internship opportunities to your company list to track your progress and where you should
apply.
Establish connections internally within the company and externally with people in your field of
interest.
• Keep open lines of communication with your supervisor and team.
• Reflect often on how things are going, what you like and dislike, what strengths or challenges
have come through in your work, what you’d still like to learn.
• Track your thoughts and progress using a journal or note-taking system to refer back to later.
• Update your resume.