Carnegie Mellon University

The Career and Professional Development Center (CPDC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a centralized career center staffed by a team of 24 enthusiastic, dedicated, and highly-educated professionals who orchestrate the career exploration, experiential learning, and career networking needs of students and alumni.  

Mission Statement
The CPDC empowers students and alumni to optimize their professional and life potential through career exploration, experiential learning, and connections with employers and opportunities.

What is Your Career Passion? We Can Help.
Across the division of student affairs at CMU, you will find a commitment to individualized attention.  In the CPDC, you can see this commitment through our career consultants who work with specific colleges, departments, and majors. The Career Consultants work closely with their academic departments to develop a level of expertise to help you embark on your academic and professional journey.

The Career Consultants are available to meet with you from the first day you begin at CMU to the last day you are here, and even beyond when you are an alumnus. We will help you to develop your career path from choosing a major, writing a resume, and learning how to interview and network. We hope that you will find your career passion by experimenting with summer internships, research opportunities and campus organizations/clubs.

We also offer another layer of additional career advising for you:  the undergraduate Career Peer Mentors!