Welcome to the faculty/staff page!
Career Advising and Professional Development act as a hub within MIT’s career advising universe to help students, postdocs, and recent alums navigate the many different career resources available across the Institute. As faculty and staff, you are important parts of that universe, and we want to work with you to ensure MIT students and postdocs can accomplish their career goals.
As we work with all majors and all levels on their career and professional development goals, we partner with departments in many ways and always value feedback on how to best partner with you to serve your students, postdocs, and recent alums.
- Access to our advisors
- CAPD workshops and programs
- Hybrid recruiting
- Graduate and professional school
- Career Fairs
- Micro-internships
- Students and postdocs can schedule 15 – 50 minute in-person, or virtual appointments between 7 am – 7 pm. CAPD operating hours will be 10 am – 4 pm, Monday – Friday, but virtual and in-person meetings and advising appointments will happen before and after open hours. Information about alumni appointments is on the CAPD alumni webpage.
- We offer both virtual and in-person events. You can find our workshops and events either on CAPD’s website or on MIT’s Handshake events page. Event information will continue to be delivered to academic administrator inboxes weekly, and new staff members can sign up for event emails on our website. Also, the workshop request form is available for special requests.
- Many employers are strategizing their college recruitment; therefore, many recruiting and career fair opportunities will be both in-person and virtual. MIT’s iteration of Handshake will host information sessions, coffee talks, presentations, internships and full-time opportunity listings, and interview schedules. Students, postdocs, and recent alums are encouraged to complete their Handshake profiles and set up their notifications to get alerts on the activities of most interest to them.
- We expect another competitive season for students applying to graduate and professional schools. Prehealth Advising, Distinguished Fellowship Advising, and graduate school advising are part of CAPD services and additional ways that we support students as they explore various career paths.
- In addition to the Fall Career Fair series, other career fairs will be offered by partners across campus and Harvard. View our annual career fairs at MIT page for a full list of planned and anticipated fairs.
- Students looking for a short-term project or internship over IAP should consider a micro-internship to build their skills, connect with employers and explore a career path. Each day during the micro-internship opening cycle, new projects become available, and it’s easy to search for them in Handshake by using “micro-intern” as a search term when looking through job listings.
