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Resources

Caltech Career Guide 2009-2010

Download the current Caltech Career Guide. (PDF 4.02 MB)

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Career Development Center Videos

VIDEO: Resume Basics (Flash)
VIDEO: Resume Bullet Points (Flash)

VIDEO: Interviewing Basics (Flash)

Career Development Center Handouts

Resumes and Cover Letters (PDF 98 KB)
Resume Workshop presentation (PDF 191 KB)
Interviewing Techniques (PDF 250 KB)
Informational Interviews (PDF 81 KB)
STAR Interviews (PDF 24 KB)
How to Dress for an Interview and Career Fairs (PDF 374 KB)
Salary Negotiation (PDF 158 KB)
Networking (PDF 539 KB)
Mingling Skills for International Students (PDF 45 KB)
Applying to Graduate School (PDF 228 KB)
Career Planning (PDF 224 KB)
Hiatus Year (PDF 129 KB)
Financial Planning 101 Workshop presentation (PDF 418 KB)
Recommended web links for career information

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Library Resource Center

The Career Development Center has a library resource center which contains a variety of books on various career related issues. The following is a list of those subject areas. Please note that books cannot be borrowed from our library.

• Business School
• Career Exploration
• Career Planning
• Directories
• Financial Aid
• Grad School Directories
• International Employment
• Internships
• Interviewing Skills
• Job Search
• Law School
• Medical School
• Ph.D. Materials
• Resume Writing
• Salary Information and Negotiations
• Teaching
• Transfer/Time Off



Graduate and Professional Schools

If attending graduate or some kind of professional school is somewhere in your future plans, then check out the many resources the Career Development Center offers here:

Applying to Graduate Schools
Applying to Business Schools
Applying to Law Schools
Applying to Medical Schools

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Additional Resources

Letters of recommendation service through Interfolio.com
Graduate Exams - GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, CBEST
GradSource.com - provides students with a year-round online resource, a searchable database of grad schools and programs, useful links and resources.
The Survey on Doctoral Education and Career Preparation
Advice for prospective doctoral students.
Bio Career Center
MIT Careers Office: Finance & Banking
One Day, One Job and One, Day, One Internship
Suggested articles:
"How to Use Google to Find a Job
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"Why Every College Job Searcher Needs RSS"
"Managing Your Personal Brand Online"
CleanTechRecruits is the leading web site for students and alumni looking for a career in the Clean/Renewable Energy field. They have more job postings than any other site from companies such as BP Solar, BP Wind Energy, GE Wind Energy, National Renewable Energy Labs, American Superconductor and many startups. Most of the positions on their site are either Engineering 60% or Business related roles 40% so these positions would fit well into both your Engineering as well as Business Schools for both students and alumni.
Quintessential Careers is one of the Web's most comprehensive career sites.

The founders of QuintCareers are both college professors who hold doctorate degrees in marketing and management -- and have a strong pulse on the career and job-search needs of college students and recent college grads. They developed Quintessential Careers with the mission of empowering job-seekers to achieve career and job-search success, with a special emphasis on college students.

 


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