Career Resources

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Resources for All Engineering Fields

  • Columbia Career Connections (CCC): Columbia Career Connections is an online career networking community through which students have the opportunity to make connections with alumni in a wide variety of professions, industries, and locations.
  • MentorNet: E-mentoring network particularly for women and others underrepresented in engineering, science, and mathematics.  Offers one-on-one mentoring programs and a rich resume database, among other resources.
  • LinkedIn: The foremost professional networking website, LinkedIn offers you a chance to create a personalized professional profile, connect with leading industry professionals, and join relevant industry-related groups to form connections and take part in the discourse.
  • Engineering Central: A fantastic place for entry-level engineering jobs across all specialties.
  • Vault Guides: Vault, often described as "the ultimate destination for insider company information, advice, and career management services," is a great place to start planning for a career in any field.
  • Hoovers: Features company profiles, expert advice, and analysis of the various engineering fields with a high degree of helpful specificity.
  • Try Engineering: Overviews engineering majors and fields, with profiles of engineers and undergraduate students, a list of engineering societies, and some internship/research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Science Careers: Online “Careers” section of the Journal Science.  Job database, information on funding, and discussion forum.
  • My Perfect Gig: Industry-specific, skills-based matching of job-seeker qualifications and employer requirements for engineering, information systems, and information technology jobs.
  • Society of Women Engineers: Job/internship search resources, information on SWE scholarships, competitions, and conferences.
  • Tech-Centric: Online searching tool for engineering and IT jobs.
  • National Society of Black Engineers
  • Society of Women Engineers
  • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
  • Columbia University’s Engineering Student Council
  • American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) 
  • National Society of Professional Engineers 
  • Engineering Central: Lists engineering positions and resumes across all engineering disciplines.
  • Graduating Engineer: An online resource that compiles articles, advice, jobs, and top companies specifically geared towards freshly-graduated engineers.
  • Engineer.net: A broad-scale engineering job-search engine that many companies use to find new talent.
  • Progressive Engineer: An online magazine covering all disciplines, Progressive Engineer aims to inspire engineers, educate outsides, encourage young aspiring engineers, and mostly to ‘show the fun in engineering.’
  • CrunchBoard: A nice job-listing website across many states offering a wide variety of engineering jobs.
  • Good Experience: A job-posting site focusing on customer interfaces and end-user experience modeling.
  • JE Jacobs: Full-spectrum support to industrial, commercial, and governmental clients across Aerospace and Defense, Industrial, Consumer, Energy, Environmental, Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Biotech, and more.