Thoughtful Career Advice for Penn Students and Alumni, written by the staff of the University of Pennsylvania Career Services office and selected special guests.
The University has announced that it will resume operations tomorrow, October 31st. Career Services will be open for appointments, walk ins and recruiting as usual.
Our On Campus Recruiting staff are working with employers to confirm schedules for tomorrow – we will be posting updates as we have them.
Career Services will be closed on Tuesday, June 5th for a day long staff retreat. Our front desk and career library will be open from 9am-5pm.
We look forward to seeing you again on Wednesday.
In observance of the Memorial Day holiday, Career Services will be closing at 2:00pm on Friday, May 25th and will remain closed until 9:00am on Tuesday, May 29th.
We hope that you have a wonderful holiday weekend. Remember, Career Services is open 9am-5pm Monday to Friday over the summer and you can always access this blog or our website for more information.
By Barbara Hewitt
Did you know that 62% of the Class of 2011 went into the full-time workforce immediately after graduation and that 20% went on to graduate or professional school? That financial services, consulting, healthcare, education and technology were the most popular industries our graduates worked in and that medical school was the most common graduate program? How about the fact that Teach for America was the employer who hired the largest number of Penn graduates last year followed by Goldman Sachs?
Well, we wouldn’t know these statistics either if not for the Career Plans Survey we conduct every year. The data collected is
extraordinarily important to us and allows us to determine many things including average salaries of undergraduates, offer dates, signing bonus amounts, and major employers and graduate schools attended. You can check out past surveys on our Career Survey Reports pagel.
If you are a senior and haven’t already done so, please take a few minutes to complete the survey now at the following link: https://secure.www.upenn.edu/vpul/careerservices/forms/2012survey/survey_index.html. The survey is only accurate and useful to us if a high percentage of seniors fill it out, so we encourage all students to complete it. If you are still seeking opportunities, feel free to fill it out now and then you can “update” it in the future once you finalize your plans.
Please be aware that individual responses to the survey will be held in strict confidence within Career Services. Data may be shared with the Office of Institutional Research, who will assist in data analysis, but only aggregate data will be reported.
Happy New Year from everyone at Career Services! May 2012 be a happy and successful year for all of our students and alumni!
We look forward to serving you again when we reopen on January 3rd.
