Business and technical majors should begin sending r sum s to large companies and organizations in the fall of their final year. Smaller businesses will tend to hire immediately and will not wait until graduation. Therefore, you should target smaller companies one to two months prior to graduation. Make good use of your time prior to contacting smaller firms by networking with contacts at the prospective company, and compiling a list of names, addresses, and phone numbers for those places to which you plan to send r sum s. For non-technical majors including design arts and liberal arts, traditional methods and timing may not apply.
Organizations seeking design arts majors hire on a real-time basis.
That is, they hire someone when they need someone. We stress that students in these majors work closely with a Career Services coordinator to utilize a variety of job searching resources. Students graduating between December 2000 and August 2001 are eligible to use the On-Campus Classifieds process beginning in Fall '00. After graduation, this service will no longer be available to you. No single method of job hunting successfully applies to every student.