Career Services Impact Class of 2013 post-graduation plans

Dustin Zubke ’13 | Physics Michelle DeRienzo ’13 Dustin won the prestigious Engineering Parker Martin ’13 | Engineering Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Michelle works at Honeywell in Parker works at TrellisWare which provides funding for a year Torrance, Calif., in the aerospace Technologies in San Diego as of independent study and travel division conducting work with a hardware engineer. He went abroad. He’ll travel to Germany, heat exchangers. She discovered to an information session, met Spain, Australia, China and India Honeywell through the Speed recruiters at the fall Career Fair and to explore the challenges facing the global solar industry Networking event and the fall Career Fair. Michelle learned interviewed on campus as well as and how those challenges are being addressed so that about this particular job from an email sent to engineering at TrellisWare before he was offered a job: “After visiting solar power can compete successfully with fossil fuels majors: “The OCS helped me in a variety of ways, from OCS for advice on improving my resume, I immediately as a key energy source: “The OCS was such a valuable reviewing cover letters, resumes and my LinkedIn profile to wished I had dropped by sooner. With the assistance of OCS, resource throughout my years at Mudd. The career fairs and networking at events such as Speed Networking and Mudd I met representatives from dozens of companies at a Speed networking events offered a great chance to interact with on the Road. However, the most helpful thing the OCS did for Networking event, got on-site interviews and accepted a job employers and learn about all the opportunities available me was providing support and encouragement. Everyone is offer at TrellisWare Technologies. I owe much of my success to physics majors. I was surprised to learn that a physics incredibly invested in the students who visit their office. It was to the OCS staff’s hard work, dedication and willingness to degree could lead to a job in finance, software, engineering like having my own personal job-hunt cheerleaders!” lend a hand, and I am grateful for their help.” and, happily for me, renewable energy. The OCS helped me organize my experience on my resume and coached me Max Korbel ’13 | Engineering Brianna Posadas ’13 through interviews and job offer negotiations. The OCS is Max received a full-time offer Engineering so devoted to helping students and will do everything they from Intel in Santa Clara, Calif., Brianna is an education consultant can to get you an internship, a job or entrance into graduate after two successful internships with AIC Education in the Shenzhen, school. I am so grateful for the experiences and knowledge I there that were attained through China office. She found her position gained from the OCS!” connections made with recruiters, through the MUDDlink* web-based, students and professors at career-management system: “I Lisbeth Santana ’13 HMC. He works with the Many Integrated Cores group on went to Career Services several times throughout my four Mathematics the Xeon Phis supercomputer co-processor: “OCS helped years at Mudd to have my resume reviewed, to prep for Lisbeth works for Teach for America me significantly with all my summer and post-graduation interviews and to receive general, job-search guidance. I also in San Jose, Calif. She discovered plans. Discussions with staff helped me figure out which attended several of the workshops, from Career Fair Advice the opportunity through an email of my options would benefit me most in my future career. to Financial Planning, and found them extremely helpful in from the TFA recruiter at The OCS also helped me refine my resume to impress my job search. But the most useful service of the career : “OCS was a lot recruiters at the Career Fair and get interviews. Mudd on center was absolutely MUDDlink, because that is where I of help during my four years at HMC. They helped me with the Road was a great opportunity to learn about the found my job! I can’t thank Career Services enough for all decisions ranging from choosing a major during sophomore different work environments offered by companies and to their support and guidance; I would have never found the year to choosing a path that was right for me after college. gain connections with employers. OCS events on perfect job for me if it weren’t for their services.” They helped me with resumes and cover letters and gave campus helped me network with alumni and me very helpful interview tips that I know I will continue to professionals. They also taught me how to communicate Garrett Menghini ’13 use. Most of all, as an international student, the career center professionally with companies about job and internship Engineering helped me learn and adapt to the American job market.” offers. I would not be where I am today without OCS’s Garrett works at SpaceX, in help.” Hawthorne, Calif., as a radio Jessica Stringham ’13 frequency engineer. He received Computer Science Kacyn Fujii ’13 | Engineering the offer after a summer internship Jessica received a full-time Kacyn received a National Science with the company prior to his senior position at Yelp in San Francisco. Foundation Graduate Research year: “The OCS worked with me begininning in my first year, She met the recruiters at the fall Fellowship. She will attend helping to develop my interviewing skills and my resume. Career Fair: “The OCS helped Stanford University and will work in More importantly, the OCS provided the opportunities to me to develop confidence and the electrical engineering connect with alumni and employers. It is these relationships explore career options. I met recruiters at the Career Fair, department. She selected Stanford with my peers that will have the greatest impact on my which led to an internship last summer and a full-time because of its interdisciplinary research opportunities, continued personal and career development.” position after graduation. Through the OCS, I received strong coursework offerings and entrepreneurial culture: “I feedback about my resume at the Resume Roadshow began visiting the OCS as a first-year for help with my *During 2012–2013, the career-management system and office appointments, as well as interview feedback resume, which is useful whether you’d like to find a job or was called MUDDlink; the name changed in fall 2013 to and tips through mock interviews. Their knowledgeable internship or go to graduate school. Even though I went the ClaremontConnect. staff helped me make decisions about my career. I’m so grad-school route, I still went to the career fairs and grateful for their help!” thought they were an excellent resource. I got an internship offer from the Career Fair, but chose to spend my summer conducting research instead. My best experience with the OCS was Mudd on the Road, where I got to learn more about companies and network with employers and alumni.” Immediate Plans for HMC Degrees Pursued in Graduate/ Director’s Note Graduates –187 Students Professional School The academic year began with a flurry of Employment....117/63 percent M.S...... 5 activity—and a shortage of career cakes. Full-time job (97) Still searching (20) M.S./Ph.D...... 7 We ran out of cupcakes after greeting Graduate/ Teaching credential...... 1 Professional School....57/30 percent more than 90 students during our fall (including teaching credential) Ph.D...... 40 Open House. Shortly after, we received Gap year...... 3/2 percent a surge of appointment requests from (Traveling, internships or part-time work) How well did HMC women planning to attend the annual Other...... 8/4 percent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In (Fellowships/national awards/undecided) prepare you for a job? Computing Conference. We presented a quick workshop, just for those attending, in addition to offering a multitude of other services, including a Not at all...... 2 Speed Networking event. Fellowships Somewhat...... 23 Seventy-nine employers and 498 students attended the Oct. 12 Very well...... 58 Watson Fellowship...... 2 record-breaking Career Fair. Afterward, several employers conducted Total Respondents 83 Fulbright Scholar Program...... 1 on-campus interviews. We also experienced a new phenomenon: many of our first-year students secured internships at prestigious companies. Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program...... 1 This demonstrates the desire employers have for identifying and recruiting National Science Foundation...... 5 talent early. Although many seniors secured full-time employment offers from that first event, the spring Career Fair. still attracted 385 students and 62 Salary Offers Median Salary $77,500 employers. Also, we hosted a well-attended graduate school application $25,000 – $29,000 4 workshop featuring a talk led by a grad school advisor from Georgia Tech. $30,000 – $34,999 2 In reviewing our senior survey, I’m thrilled by the number of our $45,000 – $49,999 2 graduates who have secured fabulous jobs at great companies. Salaries $50,000 – $54,999 2 have increased for the second consecutive year. We’ve seen an increase $55,000 – $59,999 3 in start-up companies this recruiting season as the new accelerator $60,000 – $64,999 5 groups join forces with the incubators to keep top talent—such as Harvey $65,000 – $69,999 10 Mudd College graduates—in Southern California’s growing Santa Monica $70,000 – $74,999 11 tech community. $75,000 – $79,999 11 In this report, you’ll find comments from nine incredible students, who $80,000 – $84,999 7 used career services, some for all four years. It’s such a pleasure to work $85,000 – $89,999 1 with these gracious, humble young people, our future industry leaders. $90,000 – $94,999 5 To keep pace with student and employer needs, we have introduced $95,000 – $99,999 5 new initiatives, such as the Alumni Career Forum. $100,000 or greater 23 All would not be possible without my energetic team. Career Counselor Jonie Tsuji, who previously worked at Caltech, expanded our services and 0 4 8 12 16 20 24 allowed us to help even more students in 2012–2013. Office Manager Elizabeth Saelzler continues to amaze me with her efficiency. Vanessa Janovick*, who left HMC at the end of spring semester, enhanced the Delivering Career Education 2012–2013 MUDDlink** career-management system. Through our web-based career management system, MUDDlink,* the Office of I am grateful also for the tireless efforts of President Maria Klawe and Career Services tracked the various points of contact used by our staff to serve the support of our wonderful faculty and staff as well as the employers the HMC community. that continue to seek our talented students. It is my pleasure to serve as Student appointments...... 493 Parent contacts ...... 8 the OCS director. Student emails...... 255 Student telephone appointments....6 Student walk-ins ...... 144 Alumni appointments...... 5 With warm regards, Alumni emails...... 97 Alumni walk-ins...... 4 Judy L. Fisher Alumni telephone appointments.....16 Faculty/Staff...... 1 Director

Reasons Students Visited OCS (via appointments, walk-ins or email) Job or internship search ...... 488 Negotiating job offers...... 63 Resume review ...... 405 Mock interviews ...... 61 Other ...... 163 LinkedIn profile review ...... 52 Cover letter review ...... 115 Graduate school questions ...... 51 Questions about interviewing ...... 101 Personal statement review ...... 31 Aneesha Akram Jonie Tsuji Elizabeth Saelzler Career/major options Assistant Director Career Counselor Office Manager and exploration ...... 86 *Aneesha Akram replaced Vanessa Janovick as assistant director in July 2013. **MUDDlink is being replaced by ClaremontConnect in fall 2013. *Name changed to ClaremontConnect in fall 2013 Areas of Study for Graduate/ Graduate/Professional Schools Chosen by 2013 Graduates Professional Schools California Institute of Ohio State University of Colorado, Aeronautics and Genome Sciences (3) Technology (3) University Boulder (3) Astronautics (2) Human-Centered Design Clemson University Pennsylvania State University of Illinois Aerospace and Mechanical and Engineering College of William and Mary University University of Iowa Engineering Materials Science and Cornell University (3) University of North Carolina Applied Mathematics (3) Engineering (2) Emory University Stanford University (3) University of Notre Dame Biochemistry Mathematics (8) Florida State University University of Oregon University of California, Biology Mechanical Engineering Fuller Seminary University of Southern Georgia Institute of Berkeley (3) California (3) Chemical Engineering Microbiology Technology University of California, University of Texas at Austin Chemistry (7) Operations Research (2) Harvard Medical School Los Angeles University of Washington (6) Civil Engineering (2) Physics (7) Johns Hopkins University University of California, University of Wisconsin- Combinatorics Robotics and Artificial Massachusetts Institute of San Diego Madison (2) Computer Science (3) Intelligence Technology (3) University of California, Vanderbilt University Santa Barbara (3) Condensed Matter Physics Secondary Mathematics Northwestern University (3) Electrical and Computer Instruction Engineering Structural Engineering Electrical Engineering (2) Theology and Ministry Job Position Titles

Activities Worker Education Intern Five top criteria most important to HMC graduates Applications Consultant Program selecting a graduate program Engineer Engineer (4) Coordinator Associate Consultant (2) Field Research Program Manager one Faculty advisor/research projects available | two Strong Business Analyst (2) Firmware Engineer Quality Assurance reputation | three Geographic location | four Accessibility of faculty/ CEO Fisheries Biologist Engineer research advisor | five Intellectually challenging Commercial Leadership Game Programmer Quantitative Researcher Program Hardware Engineer (4) Research Engineer Type of Organization Component Design High School Physics RF Engineer (2) Engineer and Math Teacher Rotation Engineer Teach for America Corps Instrumentation Engineer (3) Software Development Aerospace (8) Hospitality/Travel Member (2) Manager Engineer (38) Education (5) Industrial/Manufacturing (3) Data and Policy Mechanical Sustainability Analyst/ Engineering (16) Law (4) Analyst Engineer Mechanical Designer Entertainment/Arts/Media(2) Medical/Pharmaceutical Data Engineer Partner Support Engineer Environment/Energy Research Design Engineer Patent Engineer (4) System Test Engineer Dynamic Environments Process Engineer (2) Technical Services (2) Research (2) Finance (5) Engineer Product Management Trader Hardware Design/ Software (40) Development (6) Employers Chosen by 2013 Graduates Five top criteria most important to HMC graduates choosing employer Acumen LLC Fenwick & West LLP (4) (8) AIC Education Freescale Semiconductor Motiv Power Systems Inc. one Intellectually challenging work | two People I will work with Amazon.com (3) GE Capital NextEngine three Geographic location | four Starting salary AMD Google (2) Nocturnal Studio five Job duties/responsibilities Apple Inc Headlands Technologies OPTO (22) Bain & Company (2) Hewlett Packard Pandora Internet Radio Beats By Dre HMC CS MOOC Project Parasoft Methods of Locating Employment Bluefin Bay Resort Honeywell (2) Parco Inc (2) Broadcom Hulu Pivotal Labs Career Fair...... 37 California Department of IMC Financial Markets Quantcast (2) Alumni...... 19 Fish and Game Intel (2) Raytheon (2) Participation in an internship...... 13 Deallus Consulting Intuit (2) Room 77 (2) On-campus interview...... 11 Deloitte Consulting Layer By Layer (2) SpaceX (5) Employer’s website...... 11 Services LinkedIn (3) Teach for America (2) Employer information sessions...... 9 EA Engineering, Science Masimo Corporation Texas Instruments MUDDlink*...... 7 and Technology, Inc. Massachusetts General Hospital TrellisWare Technologies Inc. (3) Faculty...... 7 Epic (2) Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch UberMedia Friend/family member...... 6 Expedia, Inc. MCB Marine Biological Lab Yelp (4) Professional association...... 6 F5 Networks McMaster-Carr ZestFinance Directly contacted company without posted position...... 4 Facebook Meraki Inc. Zulily (2) Other job website...... 2 Factual Inc Mesa Preparatory Academy OCS By the Numbers New in 2012–2013

Throughout the year, the Office of Career Services staff track service usage and attendance at Corporate Partnership Program programs, career fairs and workshops using our web-based management system. MUDDlink,* a The 2012–2013 academic year was the first official year shared database among The Claremont Colleges. The OCS evaluates these programs and services for the Corporate Partnership Program. (Pivotal Labs had using participant surveys. In addition, MUDDlink tracks all the job/internship listings and recruiting signed up earlier, but OCS added Opto 22, Quantcast activities for the academic year. Below are some of the data OCS collected for 2012–2013. and InstaMed.) Support from our partners established a Conference Travel Fund, administered by the Dean of Students Office, which allows students to apply for up to 9,986 Job postings available to students 1,102 Students attended Employer $700 to help cover the costs of attending professional through MUDDlink Information Sessions. In all, 364 seniors, 296 conferences, such as SHPE and SWE. This year, the Full-time...... 4,138 sophomores, 274 juniors and 168 first years Corporate Partnership Program funded 19 students. Post baccalaureate/Fellowship...... 405 attended, representing the following majors: Internship...... 3,636 470 engineering; 422 computer science and Job Miner Bulletin Part-time...... 997 joint computer science and mathematics; With the success of last year’s weekly Hot Internship Temporary/Seasonal...... 577 88 physics; 61 mathematics; 37 biology e-bulletin, the OCS decided to launch a similar bulletin On-Campus Student Employment...... 233 and chemistry; and, 24 mathematical and just for seniors. The Job Miner highlighted positions computational biology. The most popular submitted by our employer partners, faculty, alumni industries were technological sciences (211), and parents that were posted daily to MUDDlink. It was 1,296 Technological Sciences positions engineering (153), finance(77) and science and viewed weekly by 90 to 110 seniors, about 48 to 58 posted on MUDDlink, plus the following: mathematics (66). percent of the senior class. Engineering ...... 721 Science and Math...... 586 Mudders Speed Network with Employers Business...... 1,361 24 Graduate schools visited the Claremont The OCS offered this popular, speed-networking event Finance ...... 687 College Consortium with 29 percent coming to on Oct. 11, 2012, the night before the fall Career Arts, Media and Entertainment...... 838 the HMC campus. Fair. Its convenient timing—held right after a number Environment and Agriculture...... 309 of companies had finished their pre-fair information Education and Information Management.. 1,287 45 Workshops included Writing Resumes sessions—drew many recruiters as well as students (28 and Cover Letters, Interview Tips, How to be company representatives and 53 students). The evening Successful at Career Fairs and Searching for was a success, and students made good connections. Employers recruited at the Claremont 238 Summer Opportunities. Also, we offered College Consortium with 41 percent Alumni Career Forum specialty workshops: Prep for Networking with specifically targeting the HMC students. In collaboration with the Office of Alumni and Parent Alumni at Career Forum and Making L.A. a Relations, the OCS held the first of its planned annual Top-Tech City. In addition, OCS held several career forums on Jan. 26, 2012. The forum featured Resume Drive-In sessions in Hoch-Shanahan. 136 69 alumni volunteers speaking about their career Companies that participated in the HMC trajectories, graduate school, fellowship experiences 2012–2013 fairs—80 in the fall and 56 in Students attended OCS and more. More than 100 students attended and many spring 794 workshops—246 seniors, 196 sophomores, shared glowing reports. OCS plans to continue this 190 juniors, 143 first years and 19 unknown. program. The following majors were represented: 883 Students attended the 2012–2013 Walk-in Hours career fairs, the most yet of any career 331 engineering; 210 computer science In October 2012, the OCS hired a new, part-time fair: 498 in fall, which comprised 364 HMC and computer science and mathematics; counselor, Jonie Tsuji, who provides several new students; 134 from the other Claremont 95 undeclared; 62 physics; 48 biology services. She has held lunch-hour appointments, hosted colleges; and, 385 in spring, which comprised and chemistry; 42 mathematics; and, six an information table in the Hoch-Shanahan Dining 262 HMC students; 123 from the other mathematical and computational biology. Commons and staffed designated walk-in hours on campuses. Wednesday afternoons, which expands our services to 140 Students—75 percent of the students. 35 Organizations conducted on-campus graduating seniors surveyed in May—used the interviews with 108 students. OCS during their four years at HMC.

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