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.