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Career Options

Career Options. A Brief Intermission. Options for Post Grad. Industry Graduate School Other?. Industry. Career Fair, Wed. Oct. 6 200+ companies coming to MSU 30+ targeting CSE/CPE Internships and full- time positions Different domains How do you present yourself?

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Career Options

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  1. Career Options A Brief Intermission

  2. Options for Post Grad • Industry • Graduate School • Other?

  3. Industry • Career Fair, Wed. Oct. 6 • 200+ companies coming to MSU • 30+ targeting CSE/CPE • Internships and full-time positions • Different domains • How do you present yourself? • What do you want to know about them?

  4. Resume • Value of 1-page resume • Essential information? • Major, GPA, cognate, objective, graduation date • Work experience (industrial and academic – research opportunities) • Standout details? • Awards, fellowships • Project-oriented courses (industrial involvement?) • Give brief descriptions if experience was noteworthy • Research experiences (briefly describe) • Special skills (e.g., platforms, languages, tools, etc.) • Things to omit?

  5. Questions to Ask • How much research will you have done for each company? • Work environment? • Team versus individual • Development processes used? • Technology used? (tools, languages, platforms, etc.) • Interaction with customers? • Application domain? (e.g., finance, enterprise, embedded systems, automotive, defense, etc.) • Typical SW development tasks? (e.g., reqts engineering, design, coding, testing, maintenance, etc.) • Duration of SW projects? (e.g., 6 mos, 1 year, 2 years, 5 yrs, etc.) • Others?

  6. Class Assignment • Meet with at least 3 companies during our Wed. class slot next week. • Obtain answers for the previous list of questions • Summarize your impression: • Would you work for them? Why or why not? • Do you think that you will hear back from them? Why or why not?

  7. Graduate School • Take the GRE even if you are not planning to go to graduate school • Post Grad options: • MS • PhD • MBA • Other? • Motivations for graduate school: • Job options and opportunities • Research/teaching

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