{"id":1428,"date":"2009-01-17T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2014-12-17T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:47:35","slug":"society-engineering-alumni-career-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2009\/01\/society-engineering-alumni-career-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Society of Engineering Alumni Career Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/full-sea-career-night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1429\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/full-sea-career-night.jpg\" alt=\"full-sea-career-night\" width=\"486\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/full-sea-career-night.jpg 486w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/full-sea-career-night-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a>On the evening of September 24, 2008, 37 <a href=\"hopkinssea@jhu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">engineering alumni<\/a> returned to campus to share their professional experiences and insights with engineering students. A panel discussion was followed by a reception, and in this casual setting students had the chance to speak with alumni from a wide range of professions and get the insiders&#8217; scoop on the working world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the reception, I talked to someone from a relatively small startup and others from large multinationals like Northrop-Grumman,&#8221; says Shirley Leong, a chemical and biomolecular engineering graduate student. &#8220;The great thing was that all of the alumni had vast networks I could tap into. One person I met forwarded my resume to his friend at a company I&#8217;m interested in. It&#8217;s a tough job market this year and any connections I can make will definitely help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alumni panelist Ken Loeber &#8217;84, the executive managing director of CB Richard Ellis Global Project Management, is committed to improving the transition from college to the working world for Hopkins graduates. &#8220;Hopkins was a great place to learn how to think at a higher level, but when I graduated, if you weren&#8217;t going on to grad school, there was little to no support to help you enter the business world,&#8221; he recalls. &#8220;Over the past few years I have felt a recognition by Hopkins that we needed to improve this. I always tell my three kids they&#8217;re not allowed to complain about something unless they&#8217;re prepared to engage in a solution-so I offered my help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Says Mark Presnell, director of <a href=\"hopkinssea@jhu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Student Career Services<\/a>, &#8220;There is no better source for information about career opportunities than alumni in the field who can describe duties, tasks, and challenges that they face every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in becoming involved with the SEA&#8217;s activities, including opportunities to serve as a professional mentor and resource to current students, please email hopkinssea@jhu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of September 24, 2008, 37 engineering alumni returned to campus to share their professional experiences and insights with engineering students. 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