Targeting employers puts you in full control of your search. Think about those employers for whom you would like to work. You choose a specific industry or facet of your field on which to focus.
For example, communications graduates can work in public, academic, corporate, or other special settings, or they can opt to not work in a "traditional" role but expand out into sales, management or even consulting.
In order to select your industry, you have to know Who Hires People With Your Skills. You can use business rankings from several sources to help you create lists of target employers. There's no reason why you can't target a specific area for your job search and then find all the potential employers within that area.
“Where in the World are MU Grads?”
- Listing of Job Titles and Hiring Organizations of Marquette Grads
Vault
- Online career library including company and career field information
- Research employers, industries, and career subjects
“Where in the World are MU Grads?”
- Listing of Job Titles and Hiring Organizations of Marquette Grads
Reference USA
- Identify employers to actively pursue for positions
- Research industries/companies; executives, corporations, company descriptions
MU Connect
- Database of thousands of Marquette alumni who have volunteered to be a source of networking and career advice
- Research career fields and where alumni work
- Find alumni in a particular city, industry, or organization
Once you develop your list of employers:
- Actively pursue employers on your list
- Check out their web pages looking for words like career, jobs, and employment
- Use MU Connect: Career Alumni Network to locate MU alumni within the company. Try to find a contact within the department for whom you would like to work
- Get past the human resources gatekeeper!
Back to Three Ways to Find an Internship or Full-time Position
- Respond to position openings
- Develop target list of employers
- Network with potential contacts and employers
View resources by other stages in the process:
You may also view resources by your year in college:
FAQs | Overview | Handouts | Resources | Post-Grad Survey
