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Reid Grawe, Director of IS Placement

Materials compiled by:�IS Career Specialists

BYU MARRIOTT SCHOOL

CAREER SERVICES

2024-2025 School Year

iscareers.byu.edu

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D&C 88:118

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“By study and also by faith”

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3 Things an Employer Needs to Know to Hire You

  1. Competence (Resume)
  2. Cultural Fit (LinkedIn)
  3. Like-ability (LinkedIn)

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So Why Do We Interview?

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Thank you to all those who participated in BootCamp!

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Agenda

The Value of an Internship

The Recruiting Cycle

Resumés

VMock

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The value of an internship

Experience!

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

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What are your motivations?

Money

Experience

Location

Academic Credit

Paid $20-$30 per hour

Benefits

Opportunity for full time offer

Increase your market value

Volunteer

Expand Horizon

Promotion options

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Close to home/family

Nature

Culture

City

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Based on need

Desire

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The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

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IS Demographic

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The Courting Process

Resumé

Asking for a 1st Date

 

(Make a good first impression)

Interview

1st Date

 

(Don’t mess it up, or you won’t get a second chance)

2nd Interview

(Time to meet with dad)

Accept Offer

Committed/Engaged

 

 

 

(You’re off the market-- no more flirting!)

Begin Work

Marriage

(You did it!!)

Reneging*

Just don’t do it

(*Reneging is going back on your previous acceptance of an offer. Can be an honor code violation, and it burns bridges with companies)

Define the Relationship

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

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The Recruiting Cycle

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Recruiting Cycle Overview

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

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Fall vs Winter

To MISM, or not to MISM?

The Big 4

Meet the Firms

STEM Fair

General Career Fair

STEM Fair

General Career Fair

Summer Watchlist

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

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Info Sessions and Career Fairs

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Look Forward to Recruiting Events

  • Look in our “Friday Forecast” emails for additional events that will be coming

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  • We will have numerous info-sessions help-sessions, and classroom visits in between events to prepare you

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On Campus Career Fairs

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12 September – Marriott School Consulting Night

18 September - AIS Sponsor Night

19 September – STEM In-person for Tech, Math & Data

25 September - Marriott Meet the Firms

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3 October – Business in Healthcare Career Fair

3 October – In-Person All Majors (General) Career Fair

17 October – Graduate School Career Fair

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Meet The Firms

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

In-person in the Marriott Center

September 25th, 7pm-9pm

Business Professional Attire

REGISTER ON HANDSHAKE

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Firms Attending:

Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Clyde Companies, Walmart, RubinBrown LLP and 50 others.

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Meet

the

Firms

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STEM Fair

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

In-Person, Wilk

September 19th 9am-3pm

Business Professional Attire

Firms Attending:

National Security Agency (NSA), Credera, Lucid Software, Pattern and 109 others.

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Me in 30 Seconds

  1. Full Name (First or Preferred First and Last Name)
  2. Where you’re from
    • If you’re international student, also say how long you have been in the US for.
  3. Deliver your passion in this format: “I do _______ because I love _______.”
    • “I am studying IS because_________.”
    • “In my last internship, I created __ that solved __ and saved the company $100,000.”
  4. Connect the company with your passion.
    • “I believe this position fits me because _______.”

5. Express your interest (In a controlled way, of course)

    • “Who do you know that I should talk to about this?”
    • “I’m excited for this interview; I really want to join your team!”
    • “I would love to work for your company!”

Overview | Know Resume | “Me in 30 Seconds” | First 5 Mins | Next 5 Mins| Last 5 Mins | Wrap up |

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Stay Connected

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

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Fab 5 - YPAC

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“Achieving Your Career Dreams”

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Resumés

“Achieving Your Career Dreams”

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“Achieving Your Career Dreams”

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Sandbox Analogy

Examples

Education

Skills

Experience

- Strengthen your bullets

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Sandbox Analogy

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

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Résumé Examples

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Format – Education

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Key Bullets

Minor

Scholarships

Dean’s list

GPA x.xx; Major GPA x.xx

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Optional Bullets

Specialized courses or projects

Clubs or service

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Format – Skills

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

Skills & Achievements

Proficient vs Experienced

Member of [club/organization]

Volunteer Work

High School (awards, clubs, etc.)

Interests – [Enjoy _______, _______, and ________]

Languages – [Native, Fluent, Conversational]

Eagle Scout

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Format – Experience

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

Good

Job Description

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What you were hired to do

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Better

Results

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How well you did

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Best

Impact

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How you

impacted the customers/company

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Format – Experience cont.

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Use the word ‘that’ to resolve the question of “so what?”

Read every bullet you have and ask “so what?”

-Orchestrated a weekly specialized notification program to 400 IS students that increased awareness and career placement for the IS program

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-Developed a dynamic Tableau dashboard used in government compliance reporting, improving accuracy by 60%

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-Created a comprehensive SAP Business Objects support team to prevent and diagnose outages, decreasing incident response time by 10%

Examples

Strengthen your bullets

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VMOCK

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

*Demo

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What’s Your Title?

The value of an internship | The Recruiting Cycle | Résumés | Cover Letters | Wrap up

Servant

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Your Team

Brendan Bundy

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Ella Neumarker

Traeden Overly

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Tate Matley

Lily Tait

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Jeff Yates

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VMock Quiz

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Did it over the summer? This should be easy

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We try to help you catch mistakes like this: led vs lead

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