Career Development

Here are some links to resources that will help you with your career development, job search, and graduate school planning.

Writing Cover Letters
Writing Resumes
These sites from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute provides excellent guidelines for writing cover letters and resumes in the IT and engineering fields.

Graduate School Application Letters
Another site from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offers tips for writing a competitive admissions essay for graduate school.

Prepare To Job Hunt
GMU's Career Services offers this site to help you assess your readiness, research employers, write resumes and job search letters, develop your portfolio, review ethical conduct, and prepare for interviewing.

U. of Minnesota's Resume Tutor!
This interactive workbook will help you develop your resume, but it won't write it for you!

IT&E Workforce Initiatives
Find out what's happening on the School of Information Technology and Engineering's Workforce Initiatives site.  Learn about potential employment, resources, job fairs, internship and scholarship opportunities, and other helpful career development pointers.

GMU Career Services
This links you to the central career services office at George Mason.  The office is located in SUB I on the 3rd floor.