THE SEARCH FOR EXCELLENCE For technology, engineering and science firms, there is no better place to find top-caliber recruits than Harvey Mudd College. HARVEY MUDD AND ITS STUDENTS Harvey Mudd College is a private, co-educational, undergraduate-only liberal arts college of engineering, science and mathematics located in Claremont, California. We educate the nation’s brightest young engineers, scientists and mathematicians to under- stand relationships. Regardless of their majors, our students graduate as passionate problem solvers who think across disciplines, communicate, collaborate and understand their impact on society.
Harvey Mudd is widely recognized for its program- matic innovation, excellence and vigor. The curriculum is designed to provide scientists, mathematicians and engineers with unusual breadth in their technical education and a firm grounding in the humanities and social sciences. Students graduate with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in STEM careers.
U.S. News & World Report has consistently ranked Harvey Mudd among the top 20 undergraduate liberal arts colleges, and the College is ranked in the top 20 of Forbes’ list of Most Entrepreneurial Colleges. Harvey Mudd ranks No. 1 among the nation’s under- graduate engineering programs (U.S. News & World Report). PayScale ranks the College No. 1 for grad- uates’ return on investment. And, Princeton Review ranks Harvey Mudd No. 1 for Best Career Placement.
Harvey Mudd is a member of the Claremont University Consortium, a group of autonomous undergraduate and graduate institutions that includes Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont Graduate University and THREE GREAT REASONS Keck Graduate Institute for Applied Life Sciences. With a combined total of 7,700 students, 3,600 HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE faculty and staff members and 560 acres of land, the STUDENTS MERIT campuses cooperate to provide facilities, services and ATTENTION opportunities typically found only at major universities.
Harvey Mudd students are among the 1 best and brightest in the country. WHY RECRUIT HERE? Organizations like recruiting at Harvey Mudd College Students receive a world-class science, because our students are top-quality candidates. 2 engineering and mathematics education Employers who succeed in hiring even one candidate at Harvey Mudd, one of the most a year from Harvey Mudd are quite pleased given the selective colleges in the world. competition for the 100-plus highly skilled “Mudders” available for employment. Students understand the power of 3 collaboration. They engage in research, Clinic projects and community service, working on teams to solve current, relevant problems. ALL-STAR STUDENTS The heart and soul of the College are its students, approximately 800 young men and women who are among the nation’s scientific and technological elite. In any given admitted class, nearly all of the students placed in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. Typically, 40 percent were salutatorians or valedictorians.
During their time at Harvey Mudd, many students continue to earn academic distinction. Mudders garner prestigious academic awards and scholarships, including the Churchill Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarship, Hertz Foundation Fellowship, Astronaut Scholarship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
Mudders aren’t just gifted academically; they pursue many interests, including athletics and music. Harvey Mudd is the smallest of the undergraduate colleges in Claremont, yet one-third of the musicians in The Claremont Colleges Orchestra are Mudders.
IN THE WORDS OF EMPLOYERS … Bright Some of our best employees Talented Team players Resourceful Contributors Outside-the-box thinkers Experienced Enthusiastic Leaders Highly motivated Smart Top candidates The best and the brightest Well-prepared
“ Harvey Mudd fosters a collaborative, hands-on learning environment that mirrors the way we work at Laserfiche. Students exhibit a unique approach to problem-solving that is rooted in the school’s disciplined engineering focus and enhanced by a liberal arts education. Mudd students are intellectually curious and creative, bringing a unique perspective to the workplace.” — LAURA VICTORIA, LASERFICHE
Laura received the 2015 employer award for “Outstanding Contribution to Harvey Mudd College.” Awardees are recognized for offering opportunities for engagement, feedback, growth and leadership. computer science, engineering, math and physics—as well as CHALLENGING AND classes in academic writing and critical inquiry. In addition to RIGOROUS CURRICULUM the Core, the College requires one quarter of coursework to be Harvey Mudd students major in biology, chemistry, computer in the humanities, social sciences and the arts. science, engineering, mathematics or physics, or in one of three interdisciplinary majors: chemistry and biology; computer science and mathematics or mathematical and computational biology. Also, students have the option of creating an individual JUDGING PERFORMANCE AT program of studies or choosing an off-campus major. For HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE each major, a unique blend of courses—integrated with Clinic Harvey Mudd takes very seriously the judging of academic and research projects—provides students with a solid under- performance, and grading is rigorous. Since 1955, just seven standing of fundamental principles and concepts, strengthens students have earned a 4.0 grade point average. The average practical problem-solving skills, fuses theory, analysis and GPA over the last five years has been 3.33. So, overall GPA design, and explores advanced material in unusual depth. The is a potentially misleading measure of a student’s academic curriculum, designed expressly to challenge bright and highly performance. The major GPA is a better indicator of aptitude motivated students, is among the most rigorous in the nation. and performance. We suggest that employers look beyond the GPA to the breadth of the curriculum and the entire educational Harvey Mudd believes STEM students can only understand experience. We believe you will find extraordinarily capable and their impact on society if they understand society. Our educa- versatile graduates fully prepared for the challenges in your tional experience starts with the Common Core, a set of coordi- organization. nated courses in all the STEM disciplines—biology, chemistry,
HARVEY MUDD ENGINEERING GRADUATES Harvey Mudd College is widely recognized for its outstanding experience—ensure that Harvey Mudd graduates have the undergraduate engineering program, which is currently ranked confidence and skills to solve any challenge. No. 1 in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. Unlike Employers find that Harvey Mudd engineering graduates peer institutions, Harvey Mudd offers a general engineering rapidly come up to speed in their chosen niche and that they program that focuses on the fundamentals and problem-solving can quickly master new areas as the job requires. Of the of engineering. The curriculum is divided into three branches: approximately 200 Harvey Mudd graduates each year, about 70 engineering science, systems and DMM (design, manufacturing are engineering majors. Harvey Mudd has the greatest gender and management)—each offering rigorous analysis of theoret- diversity among top-tier engineering programs. In 2014, Harvey ical principles and intensive hands-on experience. Contempo- Mudd awarded more engineering degrees to women rary projects like those in Clinic—a required, three-semester (56 percent) than to men.
“ The engineers of today need to be dynamic, creative people who are able to bring different and new dimensions of value to ViaSat. They may be doing FPGAs today, but GPUs tomorrow. People may move from signal processing to big data analytics. They need to be able to relate to and address our customer needs. The broad curriculum at Mudd creates just these types of engineers who don’t live in silos. For several years now, we have hired Mudders, and we look forward to increasing our Mudd alumni employees.” — NANDAN DAS, VIASAT SELECT COMPANIES OFFERING EMPLOYMENT TO RECENT GRADUATING SENIORS
Aerospace Corporation McMaster-Carr
Amazon Microsoft
Apple MIT Lincoln Lab
Athenahealth Morrison & Foerster LLP
BitGo Northrop Grumman
Boston Consulting Group Nvidia
Citigroup Originate
Civis Analytics PA Consulting “ Fenwick & West is seeking Counsyl Inc. PAAMCO engineers and computer D.E. Shaw Research Palantir science majors from Harvey Mudd College who are Dropbox Inc. Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard interested in a career in patent Epic Principal Development Group law. Harvey Mudd’s broad
Ernst & Young Quantcast technical education and dual focus on liberal arts provide Esri Raytheon an ideal foundation for this Fenwick & West Soasta career path, which involves
Google SpaceX learning about a wide variety of technologies and industries, Guardant Health Spot Trading applying the law to construct a Hearsay Social Teradata coherent intellectual property
Honeywell Thoughtworks strategy and writing patent applications that clearly explain HRL Labs TrellisWare the technology. Typically one Infer Unilife Medical Solutions of the larger employers of each
Intentional Software ViaSat graduating class, Fenwick has hired more than a dozen Johns Hopkins Applied Wealthfront Physical Laboratory Harvey Mudd alumni and is Yelp looking for more to train and Laserfiche add to the team.” LinkedIn — ROBERT HULSE, FENWICK & WEST HIRING FROM HARVEY MUDD ATTEND FALL AND The Office of Career Services (OCS) partners with organizations SPRING CAREER FAIRS in order to assist them with their hiring needs and to learn from Our career fairs are often the best way to interact with Harvey them about their industry. Mudd students. Based on our annual exit surveys, the largest percentage of students find employment through the career fairs. Students from the other Claremont Colleges are POST A JOB ON invited, too. CLAREMONTCONNECT Tip 1: Register early on ClaremontConnect to reserve your spot. The OCS is a member of the NACElink/Symplicity Network, so if you have an account on the network, go to the Harvey Tip 2: Use the resume books to search for candi- Mudd College web page for employers and log in to dates after the event (no additional charge ClaremontConnect. If you are new, simply set up an account; to registrants). your listing is free. Tip 1: Posting at Harvey Mudd makes your position viewable to students at all of The Claremont Colleges. ACCESS ONLINE RESUME BOOKS Tip 2: Marketing your organization with a “customized” We offer resume books, a feature of ClaremontConnect, as profile will attract student interest. We suggest another resource for our employers. There is a nominal charge including a logo, video and detailed company facts. (career fair participants have free access). Resume book content is dynamic. New candidates can continue to add their resumes, while existing candidates may change or add a new resume at any time. To participate, please read the Resume OFFER PAID SUMMER Book User Agreement on ClaremontConnect. INTERNSHIPS Tip 1: Access the fall resume book, available in Internships provide the perfect opportunity to get your October, and the spring resume book, available in organization’s name known on a small campus like Harvey February. Resume books include the resumes of Mudd. If a student has a great experience, he or she is likely to students from all Harvey Mudd majors. recommend you to peers. Most of our students get well-paying Tip 2: Use your access to the resume books to directly internships because of their valuable talents and skills. invite students to your information sessions. This is a Tip: List your position on ClaremontConnect and plan to very successful tactic. attend the spring career fair. “ We recruit at Harvey Mudd College because its graduates are consistently top performers on our engineering team. HMC alumni have become our most influential team members.” — KEN JOHNSON, OPTO 22
CONDUCT AN CONSIDER OFFERING A INFORMATION SESSION CLINIC PROJECT Due to rigorous academic and extracurricular schedules, Each year, industry sponsors, such as Aerospace Corporation, students may not always be available. We encourage Counsyl, Rubicon Project and SpaceX contribute approximately employers to consider conducting information sessions $40,000 to participate in the Harvey Mudd Clinic Program. during meal times—lunch or dinner in Hoch-Shanahan Dining Teams of students and company liaisons work together on Commons. You can request an information table. Space is real, unsolved problems. Clinic projects are an excellent way available on a first-come, first-served basis. If you’re far from for Harvey Mudd students to learn on-the-job skills by doing campus, we might be able to arrange a virtual information projects for companies and governmental agencies. The session. Clinic Program is a great way to identify students for possible internships and employment. For more information, refer to the Tip: Request an information session early on ClaremontConnect to give the OCS adequate time to Clinic Program website hmc.edu/clinic. market your session.
HOLD ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS Interviewing on campus is very convenient for many students because of time constraints and lack of transportation. Interviews are most successful following a career fair, or you can set up a resume-collect feature on ClaremontConnect to make interview appointments at your site. Skype is also available, though arrangements must be made in advance. Interview rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Tip: Submit your request for on-campus interviews on ClaremontConnect early, as space is limited.
PARTICIPATE IN “BEYOND THE BUBBLE: LIFE AFTER HARVEY MUDD” SEMINAR SERIES This seminar series provides employers an opportunity to facilitate discussions and interact with Harvey Mudd students. OCS invites employers to lead a session on how to land an internship or job; career preparation and management; or the transition from college to the workplace. If this series is of interest, please contact the OCS director at 909.607.2972 or visit hmc.edu/beyond-the-bubble-seminars. Tip: Meeting Mudd students in an educational setting is a valuable way to get to know potential candidates. Harvey Mudd College Student Affairs | Office of Career Services 301 Platt Boulevard, Claremont, CA 91711 | hmc.edu/career-services
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