Your Career STARTS Here
Presented by Dottie Catlin
ENG Career Development Office
Agenda
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Overview of Internships
Employers that Hire BU Students
How to Find an Internship
Errors on Your Resume to Avoid
The Interview – FAQ’s and Mistakes Made
Questions?
10 Reasons to Gain Industry Experience
1. Build your resume- Employers increasingly want to see
experience in the new college grads they hire.
2. Internships are the best path to gain a job after
graduation.
3. Utilize the skills learned in your academic setting to
complete industry projects. Then bring the skills you
learned in industry back to help you with school
projects!
4. Opportunity to learn or better your soft skills, time and
project management and oral presentation skills.
5. Take your career plan for a test drive.
10 Reasons to Gain Industry Experience
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6. Establish and expand your professional network- receive
references from your internship supervisors!
7. Experience office culture - get an idea of what kind of
company you want to work for when you graduate.
8. Build positive work habits.
9. Gain confidence.
10. Learn to manage expectations with peers and managers
in industry.
Differences Between Co-ops and Internships
• Co-ops tend to be a full-time or part-time job worked
during the academic year
• Internships tend to be associated with summer
employment
• However, often these terms can be used
interchangeably
• Please search for both opportunities – don’t narrow
search to one or the other!
Top Companies
Some of the top companies that hire ENG students for an internship:
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GE
Schneider Electric
Accenture
Medtronic
Microsoft
MIT Lincoln Labs
Raytheon
Phillips North America
The Mathworks
Depuy Spine, a Johnson and Johnson Co.
Biomedical Engineering
Internship Employers
1. Medtronic
2. Sanofi - Genzyme
3. Philips
4. Abiomed
5. Accenture
6. J&J Companies, including DePuy Spine
7. Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center
8. Brigham and Women’s Hospital
9. GE Healthcare
10. Biogen
Mechanical-Aerospace-Manufacturing
Internship Employers
1. GE
2. Accenture
3. Rockwell Automation
4. Pratt & Whitney
5. 3M Corporation
6. Engineering Planning and Management, Inc.
7. BAE Systems
8. Raytheon
9. Saint Gobain
10. Avidyne Corporation or Anheuser Busch
Computer Engineering
Internship Employers
1. Abiomed
2. Microsoft
3. Freescale Semiconductor
4. Intel
5. Makai Ocean Engineering
6. Google
7. MITRE Corporation
8. Siemens USA
9. Akamai Technologies
10. Fidelity Investments
Electrical
Internship Employers
1. Analogic
2. Delsys, Inc.
3. EMC
4. Hamilton Sundstrand
5. The Mathworks
6. Mitsubishi
7. mZeal Communications
8. Teradyne
9. Texas Instruments
10. Schneider Electric
Systems
Internship Employers
1. Hewlett-Packard
2. Grasshopper
3. Dassault Systems
4. General Dynamics Electric Boat
5. General Electric
6. Philips
7. MITRE Corporation
8. Praxair
9. Raytheon
10. Verizon
Material Science
Internship Employers
1. Anheuser-Busch
2. Boston Scientific
3. Meditech
4. Medtronic
5. MIT Lincoln Laboratory
6. Portsmouth naval Shipyard
7. Pratt & Whitney
8. Accenture
9. Mass Life Sciences Center
10. Saint-Gobain
Where to Search for Internships
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BU CareerLink: https://careers-bu-eng-csm.symplicity.com/students
As an Engineering student you have access to Engineering and the
Central Office through BU Careerlink
2. On Campus Employer Information Events (CareerLink)
3. Career Fair (ENG Fall and Spring)
4. ENG CDO Events – Networking Nights, Employer in Residence
5. LinkedIn groups and jobs
6. BU ENG and school wide Alumni Relation’s Office
7. Professional Associations’ on and off campus – IEEE, ASME, BME
Career Alliance, SWE, Mass Clean Energy Center
8. Professors/Professional Staff
9. Students ahead of you in your program
10. Parents/Relatives/Family Friends
11. www.internjobs.com, www.internmatch.com, www.internhub.com
Keep in mind that company needs
change, so an EE student may hear
from a company that usually hires
BMEs because of projects that are
going on at that time.
Employment time-frames
• Standard placement timeframes:
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Summer: May-Aug
4 months: Jan-May, Sept-Dec
8 months: Jan-Aug, May-Dec, Sept-May
12 months: Jan-Jan, May-May, Sept-Sept
Errors on your Resume to Avoid!
1. Inconsistent format
2. Too much/not enough white space
3. Spell check important!
4. Not utilizing action verbs
5. Didn’t proofread
6. Don’t include your social security number
7. Don’t include personal information such as citizenship, age,
race, religion, gender, marital status, etc….
8. References can go on a separate document
9. Don’t use first person pronouns
10. You shouldn’t include your picture
Frequently Asked Interview
Questions
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Tell me about yourself.
Why should we hire you?
Why did you choose this field?
What do you consider to be your major strengths and
weaknesses?
Why did you decide to seek a position with this
organization?
What do you know about our organization?
Tell me something about yourself that’s not on your
resume.
What’s your favorite activity and why is it your favorite
activity?
Frequently Asked Interview
Questions
6. What are your long term goals?
7. Describe a time that you dealt with a conflict.
8. Describe a time when you set yourself apart on a team
or in a project.
9. Give me an example of a time when you had to sell a
tough idea. How did you go about it?
10. Tell me about a time when you demonstrated your
leadership skills.
Mistakes Made in an Interview
1. Show up late/not at all
2. Not having positive interaction with ALL
company employees
3. The “dead fish”
4. Lack of eye contact…not demonstrating
interest
5. Unprepared/Haven’t done your research on
the organization and people you are meeting
Mistakes Made in an Interview
6. Your Appearance
7. Overemphasis on money, interested in
only best dollar offer
8. Negative comments about previous
employers
9. Not getting your interviewers contact
information
10. No questions for the interviewer
11. Not following up with a thank you letter
Questions?
Want More Help?
Come visit us during walk-in hours at the Career
Development Office:
44 Cummington Street
Room 112
OR
Call for an appointment
617-353-5731