Job Search Tips

3. Start early.

That means at the beginning of your final year if you're completing your degree, and it means in fall if you're looking for a summer internship. Some employers look for hires and recruit many months in advance of the anticipated work-start date. If you don't start early, you can still find opportunity, but you will have missed out on some of the options.

4. Learn how others pursuing your career field or industry have been successful.

Notice the plural on "others." Don't limit yourself to one source.

Talk to faculty in your department.

Talk to students who will graduate (or have graduated) ahead of you.

Talk to members of your professional associations and student chapters of professional organizations.

Talk to alumni volunteers you find in VT CareerLink.

See How VT Graduates Found Full-time Jobs in the Post-Graduation Report. You can see universitywide statistics and statistics for your college. Use the methods that worked for past graduates (you'll always see networking ranking high).