Career Development Center (NEASC-2002) The Career Development Center (CDC) assists the WPI student in career orientation, experien tial education and post graduate opportunities. Housed in this office are the Major Sele ction Program (MSP), Career Resource Center, Summer Opportunities Program, and Cooperative Education. The Major Selection Program (MSP) assist students in career planning, selecting an academic major and learning about career related opportunities within industry. The Ca reer Resource Center provides literature and technology resources on career development, jo b search strategies, corporations, non- profit organizations, graduate and professional sch ools. The Summer Opportunities Programs highlights career related paid summer internships, and general summer employment. The Cooperative Education Program aids students in obtaini ng 6 8 months of full time paid career-related experience. Upon graduation CDC assist s tudents in exploring and identifying postgraduate opportunities. Students either attend a g raduate/ professional school or seek employment in industry. Major Selection Program/Career Counseling Annually the Major Selection Program Seminar will attract 20 30 students. The seminar, h eld during C term, overviews the career development process, provides students with individ ual counseling including assessment interpretations, and presents student/faculty panelist to discuss WPI majors. MSP participants are also invited to shadow alumni and attend corpor ate tours. Students who do not participate in the seminar will be able to receive these se rvices on an individual basis. Summer Internships For the summer of 2001, 656 students registered with CDC for the summer internships progr am. For WPI summer internships are paid pre-professional opportunities in a students major . 857 summer internships were posted. Since 1996 WPI has also hosted a Summer/Co-op Fair. In 2002 forty-seven companies with 106 representatives attended. Cooperative Education More and more employers are using cooperative education as their method of finding permanen t employees before they graduate. At WPI students wishing to avail themselves of this servi ce will find ample opportunities. In 2001 349 cooperative education opportunities were lis ted with CDC. Every student who participated found a position. Seminars/Workshop The Career Development Center offers a variety of workshops from career exploration to attending graduate school or the first six months on the job. Many of these programs are collaborations done with employers, alumni, faculty and administrators. Student attend ance can range from 10 to 150. In 2001 CDC offered 52 workshops and 3 all day job search s trategies seminars. Career Fairs Annually CDC orchestrates several career fairs. These programs allow students to learn more about majors, careers, employers, or graduates schools. In 2001 six fairs were held: Grad uate School Fair, Fall Career Fair, Summer Internship Fair, Co-op Fair, Virtual Life Scienc e Fair and Majors Fair. The Career Fairs attracted 267 employing organizations, and 20 grad uate schools. 2200 students attended the career fairs in 2001. Graduate School The Career Resource Center houses information on the GMATs, LSATs, GREs and MCATs. CDC ann ually hosts a graduate school fair attracting 20 25 schools. In addition several programs are held through out the year that discuss entrance criteria. Recruiting/ Job Listings Upon graduation assistance is provided to students seeking fulltime employment. In 2001, 261 companies selected to conduct on-campus interviews in the Career Development Center cul minating into 2150 interviews. In addition the office advertised approximately 4500 job li stings through out the year. The increasing use of technology has allowed the office to rea ch more students and employers in an expedient manner. Although many of the CDC programs ar e done without registration (workshops, career fairs, seminars, walk-in consultations) appr oximately 1060 students registered to use our job listings/recruiting database. The administrative portion of the recruiting activities has been transposed to the web. S tudents have access to job listings at WPIs national and international project sites. They can submit resumes for interviews wherever they may be. Many of the basic job search stra tegies guides have also been placed on the web. For permanent employment annually since 199 7 WPIs placement rate has been above 90%. --------------