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Facts

Firms That Most Frequently Hire Grads

  • Allstate Insurance
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • CIA
  • Enterprise Rent-A-Car
  • GEICO
  • General government agencies
  • IBM
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Microsoft
  • Northrop Grumman
  • NSA
  • Target
  • UPS

Services Available

  • Career and Employment Resource Room
  • Career assistance
  • Career fairs
  • Career planning and decision
  • Career testing
  • Credentials Services
  • Internship Seminar (UNIV 099 is a 0 Credit Course)
  • Job Listings (TERP Online)
  • Networking (TERP Network)
  • On-campus interviewing
  • Résumé referral

Grads Entering Job Market

  • 1 Year - 76 %

Advice

  • Once you decide to attend UMCP, make the Career Center one of your most important resources on the campus. During your first year, one of your top priorities should be to establish relationships with the people who work there—all of them, if possible. As you’ll learn in college and beyond, sharing your life with others opens up a wealth of knowledge (and enables you to meet someone who knows someone who needs someone like you to work for them). Thanks to UMCP’s Career Center, feel free to keep your concerns about your employment future to a minimum. The dynamic people and resources available will help aid your search in gaining employment during your first year and beyond graduation.

Career Center

University of Maryland Career Center, 3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing
(301) 314-7225
www.careercenter.umd.edu/

Most Recent Contributing Author

Name: Jen Memmolo
Hometown: Woodbridge, NJ
Major: Journalism

Jen directed a YouTube video for an internship that has more than 5,000 hits.

Contributing Author Internship

College Prowler is actively seeking talented students to be "Contributing Authors," and assist with updating the College Prowler guide to their school. This is a great opportunity for a student to gain internship experience, be a part of a nationally recognized company, gain tremendous exposure, utilize new media techniques, and share advice with high school students about what life is really like at your college. Read more about the internship.