Career Center Home Page
All graduate students are welcome to use the Career Center located at 19 Warner Hall.
The Career Center contains over 400 books and periodicals relevant to developing a resume/curriculum vitae and cover letter, researching career paths and searching for jobs. The Career Center also coordinates presentations and job fairs and on-campus recruiting.
Check out their home page to look at salary surveys, get information about events, and discover the host of other beneficial services the Career Center offers.
MCS Career Consultant
Our MCS Career Consultant is Renee Starek (rstarek@andrew.cmu.edu). You may meet with her to discuss everything from evaluating your career goals to preparing for an interview. She is there to help! Make an appointment by calling the Career Center at 268-2064.
TartanTRAK
By accessing TartanTRAK through the Career Center Home Page students are able to:
- Participate in on-campus recruiting, resume drops and mock interviews
- Network with alumni through the Career Contact Network
- Search nationally for internships and job openings
In order to use TartanTRAK, you must first complete a quick 20-minute orientation session. These sessions are offered regularly at the Career Center, or you may make an appointment with Renee Starek.
MCS Graduate Career Bboard
Check out the job MCS Career bboard for current job and internship postings and upcoming events sponsored by the Career Center. You can subscribe to it at: org.mcs.grad.career
Other career-related bboards that you might find useful are:
cmu.career-center.announce
(upcoming events, campus interview postings, job fair announcements
cmu.career-center.announce.ptjobs
(part-time and off-campus job listings in the Pittsburgh area)
official.student-employment
(academic year on-campus job listings)
official.student-employement.summer
(summer on-campus job listings)
Newsletter
The MCS Graduate Career Connection is a newsletter distributed once a semester for MCS graduate students. It contains all the informtion you need to get connected to the career resources at CMU. Look for it in your mailbox, or contact Renee Starek at the Career Center for a copy.
Office of Scholarships and Fellowships
The Office of Scholarships and Fellowhsips connects Carnegie Mellon students with external souces of funding for their upper class and graduate school years.
Academic Career Links
PhD's Org Science, Math and Engineering Career Site
This site offers job listings, salary information, advice about graduate school, CVs and interviewing, background articles about the sciences, resources lists, and on-line discussions.
Chronicle of Higher Education
This link has lots of articles on academia and also job openings.
Jobs in Higher Education
This page links to faculty/staff job announcements that are provided and maintained by different schools at their respective web sites. The schools are listed by state, so this is useful if you're looking for a job in a particular geographical area.
The Academic Employment Network
At this site, you can post your resume or search through available positions in colleges and primary and secondary educational institutions for faculty, staff, and administrative professionals. There is a search engine on the site that allows you to look for jobs by state or by position title.
The Academic Position Network
Another site listing searchable career opportunities in higher education.
Insider's Guide to the Academic Job Market
This link gives advice about how to become "literate in the employment line." The site includes a sample CV and job-application letter, discussion of tricky interview questions, and advice for the graduate-school years.
Landing an Academic Job
A guide to applying and interviewing for an academic job by the chairman of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Illinois.
Preparing Future Faculty
The Preparing Future Faculty program attempts to give graduate students a fuller sense of the academic profession. This site offers a general overview of the project's activities. One section includes a list of job-market related sites.
