Career Prep Day - Mentor Registration
Friday Morning, September 17, 2010
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Illinois Room – Student Center East

Task for Mentors: Mentors teach Junior and Senior students to develop good job hunting and interviewing skills and to use their 3 greatest tools with confidence – their resume, experience and communications.

Expectations: Career Prep Day emphasizes developing high quality interview skills. Mentors help students to deconstruct their resumes so they learn how to highlight and communicate skills or experiences as a benefit to a future employer. Students are preparing for a job fair later in the month.

Engineering Career Center Registration: Students are required to register with the Engineering Career Center , which will pre-screen and review resumes with student. Mentors no longer perform a fundamental resume review. Students are responsible for the content of their own resume.

Format: Career Prep Day is a morning event. It begins with a networking session for alumni, followed by mentoring and an optional panel discussion.

Mentor Experience: Mentors should have at least 3 years hands-on experience as an engineer plus experience as a mentor or in a hiring/interviewing capacity.

This is an on-campus event and we are unable to provide mentoring long-distance mentoring opportunities for alumni.

Financial Support for Career Prep Day: There is no cost to participate. If you or your company would like information on how you can underwrite the costs associated with Career Prep Day, please contact Nancy Cohen at 312-996-2168 or njcohen@uic.edu for information.

To register as a mentor, please provide this information. Thank you!

First Name: Last Name:

Corporate Position:

Company Name:

Company Address1:

Company Address2:

Company City: Company State: Company Zip:

Preferred Email Address:

Cell Phone or Preferred Phone Number:

Academic Degree(s) and Year:

Degree 1: Year Graduated:

Degree 2: Year Graduated:

Degree 3: Year Graduated:

Degree 4: Year Graduated:

Degree 5: Year Graduated:

My Mentoring Experience – Please check all that apply. Less-experienced mentors may be paired with an experienced mentor.

I have participated in hiring decisions, interviewing candidates or screening resumes
I have a strong sense of what information must appear in a professional resume
I have experience mentoring others about resumes, interviewing or cover letters
I have worked as an engineer for at least 3 years
I volunteer to appear on the alumni panel following the mentoring session
I will attend the networking review session for mentors at 8:30 am

My Academic Interests: We try our best to pair you with students whose field you know. On occasion, the registration load requires us to assign mentors to students from other fields. Their needs are just the same! You can help by suggesting two or more fields where you are knowledgeable, whether or not it is the area of your academic degree.

Any Field – no limitations
Bioengineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial Engineering

Thank you!

Kate Kaplan, director, UIC Engineering Career Center
Michael Goluszka, Engineering Alumni Association
Nancy Cohen, UIC College of Engineering