While affirming that career development is essentially a self-directed process, the Center does provide general and technical support to familiarize students with the range of career opportunities and to help them broaden and effectively use their networks of professional contacts. Skill-building programs include workshops on resume preparation and interviewing. Opportunities to increase networks are provided through presentations on campus by real estate companies, informal lectures by leading practitioners, and research partnerships with industry. Students are also invited to the Center's semiannual Members Meetings and occasional Alumni Association events. The Center publishes and distributes a resume book and schedules visits for organizations which want to interview on campus.
Professional staff provide individual career counseling as requested.
Job opportunities and salary scales for graduates are competitive with those offered to graduates of the leading business schools and reflect the maturity, diversity and experience of the candidates, and their MIT education. A representative list of employers of Center graduates follows.